FREETOWN, April 7 (Xinhua) — A total of 32,711 people in Sierra Leone have received their first shots of COVID-19 vaccines, the country’s health ministry said Wednesday. People who have received the first doses can access their second ones at…
Author: Choong Yong Ahn, Chung-Ang University Chinese President Xi Jinping made global headlines at the APEC summit on 20 November 2020 by announcing that China was considering joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which came into…
Authors: Wei Li, Sydney University and Lei Zhang, Yanzhou Coal Mining Ltd When President Xi Jinping committed China to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 at the UN General Assembly, this was good news for many, including electric vehicle manufacturers and…
Chinese tech giant Huawei has conceded that U.S. sanctions have hurt its smartphone business after posting revenue declines in overseas markets on March 31. Huawei was put on an export blacklist by then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2019 and later…
Author: Fredrik Fällman, University of Gothenburg 2020 ended on a sad note for China–Vatican relations. News emerged on 30 December that two nuns from the unofficial Vatican office in Hong Kong were detained for three weeks in Hebei in May…
The European Union is expected to exclude Chinese-made vaccines from its “vaccine passport” certification program because they aren’t approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). At the same time, Vietnam is reportedly buying large quantities of COVID-19 vaccines from Western countries…
Author: Sandra Seno-Alday, University of Sydney Laos is one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia. From 2010 to 2018, it realised the second highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in exports in the region, next only to Vietnam.…
BANGKOK (NNT) – The Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) says domestic virus inoculation, foreign tourist arrivals and export growth are among the key variables determining the revision of GDP growth outlook this year. FPO adviser Wuttipong Jittungsakul said other factors influencing…
Ottawa [Canada], February 16 (ANI): Beijing has hit out at “hypocritical and despicable” Canada for leading a coalition of 58 countries in a non-binding denunciation of state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign nationals for political purposes in China. Ottawa on Monday…
Police intercepted cocaine worth R14.1 million in a sting operation in the Eastern Cape. The stash was found in a container purportedly transporting deboned meat.It was in transit between Brazil and China when it was found in the Ngqura harbour…