With more than 10 million registered users, the fastest-growing cryptocurrency trading platform will showcase its products at the 23rd global edition of World Blockchain Summit. BANGKOK, Nov 23, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – One of the most trusted, reliable, and transparent cryptocurrency derivatives platforms, Bybit, joins the 23rd global edition of World Blockchain […]
This handout picture taken on Nov 29, 2020 and released by the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services shows an aerial view of bushfires on Fraser Island, off Australia's east coast. (HANDOUT / QUEENSLAND FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES / AFP) CANBERRA – Extreme weather events are becoming more severe and more common in Australia, a landmark […]
Editor's Note: China is already a world leader in the production and sales of electric vehicles, and judging by their popularity, more of these eco-friendly vehicles will be seen on the roads, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. Visitors inspect Voyah models at the Tianjin International Auto Show on Nov 10. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO […]
The guidance and work plans regarding nucleic acid tests, the demarcation of COVID-19 risk areas, home quarantine and medical observation issued by the State Council on Monday are meaningful supplements to the 20 directives for COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control that it released about 10 days ago. While the directives are more principles and what […]
People injured in an earthquake are treated at a hospital in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 21, 2022. (AJENG DINAR ULFIANA / REUTERS) CIANJUR — Indonesian rescue workers were racing on Tuesday to reach people still trapped in rubble after an earthquake devastated a West Java town a day earlier, killing at least 162 […]
Wounded people rest under a tent displayed outside a hospital following an earthquake in Cianjur on Nov 21, 2022. (STR / AFP) CIANJUR, Indonesia – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 60 people and injured hundreds in Indonesia's West Java province on Monday, with rescuers trying to reach survivors trapped under the rubble amid a […]
Iranians take part in an anti-US and Israel demonstration after weekly Friday prayers in the capital Tehran on May 18, 2018, to show their solidarity with Palestinians over recent violent events in Gaza. The banners read in Farsi "Down with America". (STRINGER / AFP) TEHRAN — A spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned […]
HANOI, Vietnam, Nov 10, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The 14th Annual Global CSR & ESG Summit & Awards 2022, which ended on a high note with a full house turnout, was held for the first time at Hanoi, Vietnam. Organized at the JW Marriott Hanoi, the conference kickstarted with the sumptuous and […]
(LI MIN / CHINA DAILY) In its 22 years, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has facilitated the progress of Africa in many fields including trade, economy, infrastructure development and industrialization. The FOCAC's successes can be seen in the shared benefits and the most-talked-about South-South diplomatic engagement. According to World Bank data, China has sustained its […]
LONDON, Nov 1, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today announced their partnership with Nuvei. Nuvei now offers JCB acceptance to its global merchant ecosystem, enabling JCB’s more than 140 million-strong cardmember community to pay at Nuvei’s network of 50,000 merchants across […]
The Western media spread unblushing falsehoods once again. Shortly before and after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, some of the leading Western editorials contained several outrageous slurs against China. For example, an editorial of The Economist recently lambasted China for being “more isolated, inward looking, … and could become even […]
Indian rescue personnel conduct search operations after a bridge across the river Machchhu collapsed in Morbi, some 220 kms from Ahmedabad, early on Oct 31, 2022. (SAM PANTHAKY / AFP) AHMEDABAD, India – At least 132 people were killed in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Sunday when a footbridge packed with sightseers enjoying […]
China’s the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the election of Xi Jinping as general secretary of the CPC Central Committee have the West working itself up into a crescendo of Xi-bashing and Sinophobia. But are all their fears real? What does General Secretary Xi actually want? What direction is China now […]
(LI MIN / CHINA DAILY) In the report delivered to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Sunday, Xi Jinping said that from this day forward, the central task of the CPC will be to lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to realize the second […]
Devastating floods have repeatedly struck Australia's east coast since early last year because of a multiyear La Nina weather phenomenon. SYDNEY- Hundreds of homes in southeast Australia were without power on Thursday and residents filled sandbags as an intense weather system lashed the region, bringing warnings of more heavy rain, damaging winds and flash flooding. […]
For me, the word “brilliance” conjures up an image of the night sky on a clear evening with the stars aligning. That then leads me to both China Daily Hong Kong Edition’s 25th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Anniversaries provide a good opportunity to reflect […]
Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos speaks at the 2022 Department of Environment and Natural Resources Multistakeholder Forum in Manila, Philippines, Oct 5, 2022. (AARON FAVILA / AP) MANILA – Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos said on Wednesday night that the Philippines is ready to take the role in peacekeeping in Southeast Asia, emphasizing the peacemaker […]
A man paddles his kayak through a flooded street at Windsor on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia's largest city in a flood emergency that was impacting 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. (MARK BAKER / AP) SYDNEY – Sydney is set to […]
JAKARTA, Oct 3, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Environmental issues and climate change get increasingly highlighted as nature declines at unprecedented speed and level. Continuous innovations and mass movements become necessary to soften impacts from the crises. Korindo Group acknowledges the need to transform into a more environmentally-friendly company by creating breakthroughs in […]
In this picture taken on Sept 25, 2022, people gather along the banks of the Karatoya river after a boat capsized near the town of Boda. (FIROZ AL SABAH / AFP) DHAKA – At least 31 people were killed and some were missing after a boat packed with Hindu devotees sank on Sunday in Bangladesh, […]
Internally displaced people take care of their children under treatment for malaria and gastro in the flood-hit Hyderabad city of Sindh province on Sept 11, 2022. (AKRAM SHAHID / AFP) KARACHI, PAKISTAN – The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan's flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, and actress Angelina […]
(LI MIN / CHINA DAILY) China has 18 percent of the world's population, but less than 9 percent of the world's cropland and only one-third of the global average availability of freshwater on a per capita basis. But despite these severe resource constraints, China has made remarkable progress in agriculture. For example, between 1949 and […]
Internally displaced people wade through floodwaters to return home after heavy monsoon rains in Dadu district, Sindh province on Sept 7, 2022. (AAMIR QURESHI / AFP) BHAN SYEDABAD, Pakistan – People were building barriers on Thursday in some parts of Pakistan to hold back rising waters that have engulfed nearly a third of the country […]
Women carry belongings salvaged from their flooded home after monsoon rains, in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh province, of Pakistan, Sept 6, 2022. (FAREED KHAN / AP) JAMSHORO, PAKISTAN – Pakistan scrambled on Tuesday to widen a breach in its biggest lake to prevent it from overflowing amid unprecedented floods that have inundated a […]
Temporary housing is constructed for flood victims in Hyderabad, Pakistan on Sept 6, 2022. (PERVEZ MASIH / AP) Deadly disaster sparks calls for rich nations to own up to emissions failures and help the developing world Climate justice for developing nations has become a hot topic again as devastating floods in Pakistan have killed more […]
Firefighters help evacuate residents from a flooded area after heavy rainfall in Bangalore, India on Sept 5, 2022. (KASHIF MASOOD / AP) BENGALURU – Many parts of India's tech hub of Bengaluru were under water for a second day on Tuesday as more rain fell in an unusually wet monsoon season, bringing traffic chaos, power […]
This aerial photograph taken on Sept 3, 2022 shows flood-affected people as they gather outside their damaged houses in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province. (BANARAS KHAN / AFP) KARACHI, Pakistan – The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with […]
MUMBAI, INDIA, Sep 2, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of Baroda (BoB) and Snapdeal in partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and JCB International Co. Ltd. have announced the launch of the Snapdeal BoB JCB RuPay Credit Card. The card is […]
Eberhard Zorn, inspector general of the German armed forces Bundeswehr, waits for the German Chancellor expected to visit the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Schwielowsee, eastern Germany on March 4, 2022. (TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP) BERLIN – Germany will expand its military presence in the Indo-Pacific by sending more warships and joining drills with allies, the […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) CANBERRA / HANOI / MANILA / JAKARTA / SINGAPORE / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / TOKYO – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Australia since the start of the pandemic has surpassed 10 million. There were more […]