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East Asia
China’s foreign aid is more people-oriented
By Ji Peijuan from People’s Daily In the past six decades, China has provided nearly 400 billion yuan of aids to 166 countries and international organizations, lending a helpful hand when the latter were in need. But an emerging trend is that the focus of such assistance has been shifted…
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East Asia
Chinese enterprises gear for 5G era leadership
By Wang Di(王迪) from People’s Daily Chinese companies are seeking a breakthrough and leading position in 5G technology, judging by the products they showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The conference attracted nearly 100,000 visitors and more than 2,000 manufacturers from over 100 countries and regions. The P10…
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Central Asia
French Development Agency supports agricultural development in Uzbekistan
French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement – AFD), a financial institution and the main implementing agency for France’s official development assistance to developing countries, is taking an active role in the development of agriculture and modernization of the sector in Uzbekistan. Nowadays a group of experts from the France…
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East Asia
China to maintain move toward market-oriented, law-based and open capital market: securities regulator
By Qiang Wei from People’s Daily As part of the effort to further open its capital markets to foreign participants, China is discussing measures that would allow foreign corporations to take larger stakes in domestic joint-venture securities and futures brokerages, officials with the top securities regulator disclosed at a press…
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East Asia
China advocates ‘BRICS+’ model of open cooperation
By Zhao Cheng (赵成)from People’s Daily BRICS members should launch more outreach dialogue to benefit more parties with their cooperation, foster a “BRICS+” model of open cooperation, and set up a more broad-based South-South cooperation platform for the common development of emerging market economies and developing countries, State Councilor Yang…
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East Asia
China tightens supervision of online catering services
By Huang Fahong from People’s Daily China’s top food safety watchdog said at a press conference on 27th February that it will tighten the supervision of the booming online catering services to prevent and control food risks. Only licensed restaurants can accept online orders and they have to ensure a…
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East Asia
Globalisation, Nationalism and the Future
The Trump era is raising many questions worldwide. It is also becoming increasingly evident that people are looking more within that without their own nation—claiming the need to return to a so-called “nationalism”. Based on this trend, a “clash of civilizations” seems imminent. Few continue to be interested in the…
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East Asia
The Political Egyptian-Korean Swing of the Presidential Case
Sometimes, it feels like political news comes as an immediate response to the political situation of another country. One clear example is the same corruption found in many Egyptian governmental establishments that actually got the Korean President, Park Geun-hye, impeached by the Korean parliament. Despite the chaos it is causing…
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East Asia
Anti-corruption uprising: Korea and Pakistan on same path
Pakistan is perhaps one of the few countries where the media – print as well as electronic, allocate much space to the developments taking place around the world – be it US presidential elections, American policies, ongoing wars in the Middle East, mass migration of people, natural disasters, tug of…
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East Asia
Xi’s years of battle against poverty
By Liu Junguo from People’s Daily The battle against poverty has been high on the agenda of Xi Jinping, President of the world’s most populous nation. Always harboring a sentiment towards the impoverished people, Xi has devoted much efforts to the poverty alleviation undertakings in his career. “It is the…
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