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Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- When Mao Zedong stood on Tian'anmen Rostrum in Beijing to declare the birth of New China in 1949, a Herculean task stood before him and the Communist Party of China (CPC) that he led: feeding and clothing 540 million Chinese people, nearly 90 percent of whom lived in rural areas. "Poverty is not socialism," "socialism means eliminating poverty," and "we must keep abreast of the times; that is the purpose of our reform," said Deng Xiaoping, the visionary chief architect of China's reform and opening-up which began in 1978 when the country's incidence of rural poverty was 97.5 percent. Eradicating poverty is a war China must win, with the hardest and most arduous tasks lie in the country's rural areas and poverty-stricken regions. In 2020, all of China's nearly 100 million rural residents living below the current poverty line shook off poverty after eight years of arduous efforts. The historical feat of eradicating absolute ... » Learn More about China Focus: Is China’s poverty cure replicable?

Video Player Close number of foreigners visiting Turkey stood at 12.7 million in 2020, dropping by 71.7 percent from the previous year mainly because of global travel restrictions and lockdowns, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced recently. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui) ISTANBUL, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following a grim 2020 marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkey's tourism sector anticipates better results this year amid a vaccination rollout, but a return to pre-pandemic times remains elusive for now, industry insiders say. Choked off by the coronavirus, the number of foreigners visiting Turkey stood at 12.7 million in 2020, dropping by 71.7 percent from the previous year mainly because of global travel restrictions and lockdowns, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced recently. Meanwhile, the Turkish Statistical Institute revealed that Turkey's tourism revenues slipped by 65.1 percent year on year to 12.6 billion U.S. dollars last year. In 2019, Turkey's tourism ... » Learn More about Turkey’s tourism industry eyes rebound after grim year

Video Player Close Photo taken on Feb. 24, 2021 shows the COVID-19 vaccines donated by China at the Maputo International Airport in Maputo, Mozambique. A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country. (Photo by Israel Zefanias/Xinhua) MAPUTO, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country. Speaking after a delivery ceremony at the airport, Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario praised China's role in fighting the pandemic and thanked the Chinese people for the friendship, adding that "the rapid availability of vaccines against COVID-19 reflects the commitment and determination" of both the Chinese and ... » Learn More about Mozambique receives its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from China

Times Business Awards 2021 is an initiative done by The Times Group to recognise and honour the trailblazers from Kolkata and celebrate the essence of their excellence. It was a grand event when the business community gathered to celebrate entrepreneurial excellence. Other dignitaries from different walks of life joined in to cheer the entrepreneurs who shone during these trying times in their respective fields. The chief guest of the function, Anupam Kher, said: “ It’s lovely to be back in the City of Joy. ” ( L to R - Lamp lighting ceremony by Subrata Chakraborty, Bratya Basu, Koel Mallick, Nusrat Jahan, Praveen Srivastava, Jacques Bartz ) Times Business Awards 2021: Winner List Times Best manufacturer of Structural Tubes - Tata Structura Times Leading Cement Brand - Ambuja Cement Times Best management school - IIM, Kolkata Times Leading Surface Disinfectant Spray – Savlon Times Best Cardiac & Multi-Speciality Hospital - Rabindranath Tagore International ... » Learn More about Times Business Awards Kolkata 2021: Recognizing brands & celebrating their excellence in the business world

New Delhi: With a goal of promoting local manufacturing, India’s new budget tripled to 15 per cent the duty on imported solar lanterns , while the duty on solar inverters would rise from 5 per cent to 20 per cent. The off-grid solar industry, which already saw a 10 per cent decline in solar lantern sales in 2019-2020, is bracing for an ever bigger hit because of the new tariffs. As a result, off-grid industry executives are calling for a more measured approach that accounts for the current gap in quality local production while ensuring that India’s rural poor are protected from expected price hikes until that gap is filled. “We understand that the increase in duties has the undesirable effect of making certain products in the market expensive for end-customers,” said Piyush Mathur, board member of CLEAN, a trade group representing over 200 distributed renewable energy companies. “However, the new duty structure also offers our member companies an opportunity to build and ... » Learn More about Off-grid solar industry bracing for impact of import duty hike for lanterns and inverters

IMAGE: Manchester City's Ruben Dias, right, clashes with Arsenal defender David Luiz. Photograph: John Walton/Reuters Manchester City chalked up yet another victory to maintain their stranglehold of the Premier League title race but pursuers Manchester United and Leicester City both secured important wins to enhance their top-four bids on Sunday. Raheem Sterling's header after 75 seconds was enough for City to win 1-0 at Arsenal -- a result much more comfortable than the narrow scoreline suggests. IMAGE: Raheem Sterling celebrates scoring the first goal for Manchester City. Photograph: John Walton/Reuters United and Leicester are both on 49 points with United in second place on goal difference after they secured a 3-1 home victory over struggling Newcastle United in Sunday's late game. IMAGE: Bruno Fernandes scores the first goal for Manchester United from the penalty spot against Newcastle United. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images Leicester had ... » Learn More about EPL PIX: Man City stay 10 points clear at the top

January 27, 2014 08:32 Recent statistics show that 1.5 million to 2 million foreigners live in Korea, accounting for over 3 percent of the nation's population. A range of programs are being offered to help them better adapt to life in Korean society. In a bid to help immigrant families, university student Ji Byung-ju came up with a unique idea early this year to provide immigrant mothers with postnatal services from midwives of the same nationality. "Despite the rapid increase in multicultural families, Korean society still does not give them enough care and attention," Ji said. "I wanted to help them start a new life in a foreign country, and while I was doing research with them I found that immigrant women find it a hard and lonely experience giving birth in a completely foreign environment." Ji decided it would be more comforting if they had midwives of the same nationality. He also learned women from different cultures traditionally have different nutritious food ... » Learn More about Student Entrepreneur Helps Migrant Mothers

As many as 118 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Wednesday urged the European Commission and the European Council to review their opposition to the TRIPS waiver proposal at the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ), which serves to enable greater access to affordable Covid-19 health technologies, including vaccines , in particular towards developing and middle-income countries. This call comes in view of the European Council meeting on Thursday and the crucial decision to be made by all Member States at the WTO General Council on March 1-2. Earlier this month a group of 14 Members of European Parliament (MEPs) wrote to EU Commission and EU Council backing India & South Africa's joint proposal to the World Trade Organization requesting an exemption from patents and other intellectual property rights concerning drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, personal protective equipment, and other medical technologies throughout the pandemic. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, ... » Learn More about 118 European MPs ask EU to lift opposition to TRIPS waiver proposal for accessible vaccines

CHENNAI: Indian Institute of Technology Madras Researchers have identified a sustainable and high-yielding alternative source for the anti-cancer drug Camptothecin . This novel microbial fermentation process can be an economically-efficient method of production to fulfill the market demand at a large scale. Topotecan and Irinotecan are two widely used anticancer drugs, which are produced by using Camptothecin as the lead molecule. More than a dozen derivatives and conjugates of Camptothecin are under various stages of clinical trials for anti-cancer applications. Camptothecin is an alkaloid isolated from the Chinese tree Camptotheca acuminata and the Indian tree Nothapodytes nimmoniana. Nearly 1,000 tons of plant material is required to extract just one ton of Camptothecin. Due to extensive overharvesting to meet the market demand both these plants are now critically endangered. The N. nimmoniana population has seen more than a 20% decline in the last decade alone. IIT ... » Learn More about IIT Madras Researchers identify a Sustainable, High-Yielding Alternative Source for Anti-Cancer Drug Camptothecin