Secondhand clothes That’s why they call me Second Hand Rose … I’m wearing secondhand shoes Secondhand hose All the girls hand me their secondhand beaus … Once while strolling through the Ritz, a woman got my goat She nudged her friend and said, “Oh, look, there goes my last year’s coat!” It seems poor old…
Through inspiration from the eFounders Fellowship, formed through a collaboration between Alibaba Group and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, many young Africans are investing in technology with a keen focus on e-commerce to address challenges affecting their communities. The program, launched last year, seeks to train 1,000 entrepreneurs from developing countries, 200…
Young people can contribute much to fostering Sino-African relations for the betterment of the peoples of both sides Young people can play a significant role in enhancing social and economic development and fostering Sino-African relations, given that both sides have relatively young populations with a long life ahead to take their respective economies to new…
President Xi Jinping has emphasized the importance of Africa’s young people to Sino-African ties Africa’s young people hold the key to the continent’s future and, with the support of governments, should play a more active role in shaping the continent’s ties with China, experts and officials say. Adhere Cavince, an expert on China-Africa relations at…
Nation’s new appetite has grabbed the attention of global producers and is almost certain to determine the world market’s future The impact of increasingly prosperous Chinese consumers on world commodity markets is, on one level, a matter of arithmetic. Take wine. Per capita annual consumption of the grape-based tipple in China is a sober one…
China can learn much from the tiny Baltic country of 1.3 million people, which has been a pioneer in creating a digital government Estonia is a tiny European Union country in northeast Europe, just next to Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russia. So we can say – jokingly – that Estonia and China are almost neighbors,…
China should focus on building a positive business environment for foreign investors through equal treatment and lower costs A lot of media friends have asked me what impressions I have of the fairs I’ve attended, from the Canton Fair in the early 1970s to the first China International Import Expo, which was held in Shanghai…
Education technology is big news, both for China and the rest of the world. The fusion of two vital sectors for societal development has led to an interestingly positive impact on foreign nationals as well as China’s international development and cultural open-mindedness. Just one sector of education technology, online English teaching, is expected to grow…
Growing disappointment with the ‘America First’ strategy has key US allies in Europe increasingly acting as a counterweight Many Europeans hold US President Donald Trump in disdain for his views. Thousands of people protested against his visit to Britain in July, and some British politicians called for him to be banned from entering the country…
Nation mourns the passing of Cheng Kaijia, a nuclear physicist and father of China’s atomic weapons program Members of the public have been paying tribute to Cheng Kaijia – a prominent scientist who helped China enter the atomic age – after he passed away Nov 17 in Beijing at the age of 101. Many people…