China, Africa unlock development potential at key expo

Analysis by Xinhua writer Zhang Man        CHANGSHA/NAIROBI – The 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE) opened Thursday in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province, drawing a record-breaking of over 30,000 participants from 53 African countries, 11 international organizations and 27 Chinese provincial-level regions, highlighting the dynamic two-way economic ties.Under the theme “China and Africa: Together Toward Modernization,” the biennial

June 13, 2025 | BY admin

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Shipping industry expo in Tianjin highlights closer cooperation

Analysis        TIANJIN – The 3rd Tianjin International Shipping Industry Expo (TISIE) opened in the northern Tianjin Municipality yesterday, attracting over 440 enterprises, ports and industry associations from around the world.Titled “Shipping to the world and navigating towards the future, Meet new opportunities for openness and cooperation,” the three-day expo features nine themed exhibition zones covering international ports, green shipping, maritime equipment,

June 13, 2025 | BY admin

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Resolving trade disputes through equal dialogue, mutually beneficial cooperation

Commentary        BEIJING – The first meeting of the China-US economic and trade consultation mechanism concluded Tuesday night in London. During the two-day talks, the two sides held candid and in-depth talks, and thoroughly exchanged views on economic and trade issues of mutual concern.The two sides also reached principled agreement on implementing the important consensus reached by the two heads of state during their phone call on June 5 and the framework of measures to

June 13, 2025 | BY admin

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CPC delegation visits Brazil

BRASILIA –  A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Wu Hansheng, head of the social work department of the CPC Central Committee, paid a visit to Brazil last week at the invitation of the Workers’ Party (PT) of Brazil.During the two-day visit, Wu attended the eighth theoretical seminar of the two parties and met with Kelli Mafort, executive secretary of the Presidential General Secretariat. Wu expounded on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

June 13, 2025 | BY admin

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Huawei promotes AI, cloud tech at Angola event

LUANDA – Chinese tech giant Huawei has hosted an event in Angola’s capital Luanda to showcase the application and prospects of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) in government governance, urban development, and industrial upgrading across the African country.Held under the theme “Accelerating Industrial Intelligence,” last week, the Huawei Day Angola event brought together stakeholders from various sectors to discuss how digital innovation

June 13, 2025 | BY admin

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50 years of Mozambique-China ties become a model for developing nations: ex-Mozambican PM

Interview        MAPUTO – Mozambique and China have forged an enduring friendship over the past 50 years, with cooperation in development, education and infrastructure serving as a model partnership among developing nations, former prime minister of Mozambique Aires Ali has told Xinhua“Our ties go back to the 1960s, during Mozambique’s liberation struggle,” Ali said in a recent exclusive interview with Xinhua.At that time, China was one of the first countries to

June 13, 2025 | BY admin

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Lawmakers pass outline of 2025 budget amendment bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday unanimously passed the outline of the government’s 2025 budget amendment bill, proposing a lower budgeted revenue and an increased budgeted expenditure compared to the budget’s original version.The government proposes a lower budgeted revenue as it has lowered its estimation of this year’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) to 228 billion patacas, or a monthly average of 19 billion patacas, from the 240 billion patacas initially forecast, or a monthly

June 12, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Lawmakers pass bill to add ‘space oil’ to drug law

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed unanimously a government-initiated bill which adds various substances to the drug list of Macau’s anti-drug law, including etomidate* which is the main active ingredient of a new drug with the street name “space oil”.The law is officially known as the Law on the Prohibition of the Illicit Production, Trafficking and Consumption of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.As the government had requested an urgent procedure for the bill’s

June 12, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau greyhounds from race track to heaven (Part 4)

On July 20, 2018 the (Yat Yuen) Canidrome greyhound race track closed down for good after 63 years of operation leaving 533 greyhounds to be adopted into loving homes around the world, locally and in Hong Kong.Sadly, in the years since many have died of old age, cancers or did not make it after operations to be desexed or teeth extractions because of the awful state their teeth were in. One Fancy Fay even died at the airport on arrival in the US.Over the years this reporter has been in constant

June 12, 2025 | BY Lesley Wells

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Strong Wind Signal No.3 may be hoisted today: SMG

The Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) announced on its website last night that there was a “medium” probability for the Strong Wind Signal No.3 to be hoisted today.The local observatory said last night that tropical storm “Wutip” (“Butterfly” in Cantonese) in the central South China Sea was moving west-northwest towards Hainan Province.The weather station said that as “Wutip” was expected to remain approximately 600 kilometres from Macau while approaching Hainan

June 12, 2025 | BY Armindo Neves

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Police arrest local man for stabbing ex-wife’s boyfriend with fixed blade knife

A local man was arrested on Monday for stabbing his ex-wife’s boyfriend with a fixed blade knife, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a pest control technician, surnamed Chan, in his fifties.According to Wong, the police received a report on Monday evening from a local woman who said that her boyfriend had been stabbed by her ex-husband, Chan, at the entrance of her flat’s residential building

June 12, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Gongbei Customs nabs 2 men smuggling 223kg of European elk tails

Two men were apprehended at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Customs Zhuhai checkpoint while attempting to smuggle 223 kilograms of European elk tails to the mainland, according to a statement from Gongbei Customs.According to the statement, customs officers were patrolling the inbound passenger vehicle channel at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge around 8 a.m. on May 18 when they discovered several large black holdalls covered with cloth in the boot of a Guangdong-Hong Kong licenced car. The

June 12, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Police nab mainlander for selling used concert ticket

A man from the mainland was arrested on Friday for defrauding a woman out of 2,000 yuan (2,250 patacas) by selling her a used concert ticket, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a man in his forties surnamed Mei, who told police that he’s jobless.According to Wong, the police received a report on January 4 from a woman who said that a man had sold her a ticket for a concert later that night while

June 12, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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MGTO promotes gov’t measures on vehicle clearance for int’l visitors

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that the local government grants eligible foreign visitors using the vehicle lanes at the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge to undergo the entry and exit procedures without having to leave their vehicles, with MGTO promoting the measure through various methods and platforms.The statement noted that the in-car immigration procedure has been effective since Monday, and applies to foreign nationals from countries with

June 12, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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