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As the high-altitude winds make for a brisk morning, Tibetans in Goyang Village offer the ceremonial hada scarves at a monument erected beside streams that flow into a major origin of China’s Yellow River. The village, which is located in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China’s Qinghai Province, …

The threat of attack on digital infrastructure owned by Africa-based enterprises has increased during the COVID-19 era, executives said during a virtual briefing on Wednesday. Sizwe Zikhali, a senior Solution Architect at Microsoft, said that cybercriminals escalated attacks on Africa-based enterprises during the early stages of COVID-19 pandemic in February. …

Chinese video sharing service, TikTok on Wednesday invited African entrepreneurs to join the world-first elevator pitch in the sky event. Boniswa Sidwaba, content operations manager at TikTok Africa Team, said in a statement that all founders of early-stage start-ups in Africa and the Middle East have until Sept. 24 to …

As COVID-19 is still ravaging the world and taking a heavy economic toll globally, major economies have entered recession to varying degrees; global supply and industrial chains, confronted with formidable challenges, are set to undergo profound changes; economic globalization is under the threat of even stronger countering forces; unilateralism and …

Egypt and China signed on Monday this week a cooperation protocol to teach the Chinese language in pre-university schools in Egypt as a second optional foreign language. The protocol was signed by the Egyptian Minister of Education and Technical Education, Tarek Shawki, and the Chinese Ambassador to Cairo, Liao Liqiang. …

China was the first country to be affetced by COVID-19 in the city of Wuhan. The magnitude of deaths and infections due to the virus was alarming at the beginning. However, the Chinese government in collaboration with medical workers and the entire Chinese population, realised great achivements in halting the …

“The Communist Party of China (CPC)”, proclaimed General Secretary Xi Jinping, “strives for both the wellbeing of the Chinese people and human progress”. The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. Certain countries, amid the global spread of COVID-19, increasingly resort to unilateralism, protectionism, bullying and political …

Many countries have learned from China’s experience of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Namibian Health and Social Services Minister Kalumbi Shalunga told Xinhua in a recent interview. After Namibia reported its first coronavirus case, the government quickly announced a state of emergency and a lockdown in Erongo and Khomas Regions, …

A World Health Organization (WHO) expert on Sunday commended China’s efforts and hailed its experience in containing the COVID-19 outbreak. “I appreciate the experience of China,” said WHO Representative in China Dr. Gauden Galea, at an international conference for public health cooperation during the ongoing 2020 China International Fair for …

The African Union (AU) Commission on Saturday disclosed an urgent need to collect illicit weapons in possession of civilians in Africa as an estimated 40 million weapons presently under the possession of civilians across the continent. The statement was made by Smail Chergui, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, in …