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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government will procure 18 million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine. The county is expected to spend around 351 Billion Shillings on the vaccines with each dose costing 19,498 shillings. For a complete dose, the government will spend 38,996 Shillings. This is 10,000 shillings cheaper …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Washington’s confrontational approach to China has proved to be “counter-productive” as it has alienated China when the world is in need of cooperation on a slew of issues, The Guardian newspaper said in a recent opinion piece. U.S. President Joe Biden’s “combative stance has alienated Beijing,” …

  Xining, China | Xinhua | After one year of operation, China’s first ultra high-voltage (UHV) power superhighway for transmitting clean energy delivered 13.1 billion kWh of power from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, abundant in energy resources, to densely populated Henan in central China, according to State Grid’s Qinghai branch. As …

Lhasa, Tibet | Xinhua | Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stressed fully implementing the guidelines of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for governing Tibet in a new era and writing a new chapter of lasting stability and high-quality development for the plateau region. Xi, general secretary of the CPC …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | China’s hosting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and World Political Parties Summit shows the country is becoming a good partner in socio-economic transformation of the world through political parties, a top leader of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party said on Tuesday. …

Johannesburg, South Africa | Xinhua | The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) on Saturday announced that it had authorized the use of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech. The latest vaccine approval was based on the “safety, quality and efficacy data” submitted to …

COMMENT | Ronald Kato | China presents us with a complex – if impossible question. How does a country so big, so diverse, and not exactly rich manage to get things done so efficiently, so quickly? On July 1, today, China’s governing party, the Communist Party of China (CAPC) marks 100 …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday officially granted China a malaria-free certification as a token of celebration of the country’s successful elimination of the disease after 70 years of its struggles against malaria. From 30 million malaria cases in the 1940’s, China brought down that …

Ankara, Turkey, | XINHUA |  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday announced the phase III trials of its indigenous COVID-19 vaccine named Turkovac. The vaccine, which is made with inactivated coronaviruses, is expected to be available for use by the end of this year, Erdogan said at an event …

Tariffs have harmed American jobs, American consumers, American companies and the country’s global competitiveness Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The U.S. business groups have urged the Biden administration to remove punitive tariffs on U.S. imports imposed by the previous administration, as tariffs continue to hit American businesses and consumers while pushing …