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Each electoral group’s campaign advertisements will be aired on government-owned broadcaster TDM’s Chinese- and Portuguese-language TV channels 12 and eight times respectively during the official campaign period, according to yesterday’s Official Gazette (BO).The ads will be aired free of charge.The direct and indirect legislative elections will take place on September 17. A record 25 groups are competing for 14 seats in the direct election while six groups are running in the indirect

Interview        GENEVA –The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) helps improve local infrastructure, provides essential services in many countries and regions, and contributes to global humanitarian work, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said.The BRI is a development initiative that is complementary to humanitarian work as it can serve the people affected by conflict in a sustainable manner, ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric told Xinhua in