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Salmon is back in China

Restaurants and stores in China are putting salmon back on sale as consumer confidence picks up nearly two months after Beijing's second COVID-19 outbreak at the Xinfadi wholesale market, with some imported salmon dealers seeing up to 50 percent sales increases month-on-month in July.
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/29 17:28:40

Sports industry struggles under COVID-19; faces reform as ticketing, sponsorships and broadcasting hit

As the COVID-19 epidemic in China is largely under control, the domestic sports industry is finally hearing some good news. China's top basketball league will allow audiences in the stadium in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province from Sunday, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) announced early last week.
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/28 18:08:40

China-Myanmar ties strengthen under BRI

China and Myanmar witnessed the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations on June 8, 2020, during which President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang exchanged congratulatory messages with Myanmar President U Win Myint and Myanmar State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to celebrate this important historic moment.
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/27 17:58:40

Airbus first-half deliveries hit 16-year low despite June bounce

Airbus deliveries rose 50 percent in June compared with May and reached their highest level since the coronavirus crisis spread to Europe in March, but the accelerating recovery failed to prevent first-half deliveries from sliding to a 16-year low.
Source: Reuters-Global Times | 2020/7/9 18:38:42

China-South Korea flights increase

Flights between China and South Korea are on track toward further resumption as both countries have brought the coronavirus largely under control.
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/9 18:38:40

Chinese materials indispensible to Indian Army's armor equipment despite boycott campaign

It may come as a surprise to many that amid the current fanfare of India's "boycott China" campaign and other animosity toward Chinese goods and companies, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has admitted to the country's parliament that there was "no embargo" on imports of raw materials from China for the manufacturing of protective jackets for the army.
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/8 19:43:40

Cost of emigrating HKers to UK too high

The idea of providing British National Overseas (BNO) passport holders in Hong Kong with access to British citizenship makes big political noise but would have little practical outcome, especially as the British economy has been devastated by Brexit, the ongoing pandemic and a high unemployment rate. Emigrating to the UK would only mean greater costs of living and future career risks for BNO passport holders, experts and Hong Kong residents said.
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/7 20:58:40

BRI: route of life and opportunity

Not long ago, a China-Europe freight train carrying 35 containers - more than 300 tons of masks and protective suits - set off from Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province to Duisburg, Germany.
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/6 19:18:41

Specialized system ensures China's goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects

Shen Xiang, who is in charge of poverty alleviation work in the Xide county of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, turned on his computer at 9 am on Sunday and began a normal day of work, checking processes and new work guidelines from a superior administrative unit.
Source: Global Times | 2020/6/9 17:53:40

Hainan obtains preferential taxation, investment policies to build a free trade port

Financial institutions including commercial banks will be encouraged to develop capacities suited to an open economy, and global exchanges for energy, shipping and bulk commodities will be supported, Pan Gongsheng, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, said at the press conference.
Source: Global Times | 2020/6/8 14:43:24

Chinese scientists discover human monoclonal antibodies block COVID-19 infection

A team of Chinese scientists has discovered two human monoclonal antibodies that can block COVID-19 infection and can potentially be used for the development of relevant drugs and vaccines, according to a report the team published in Nature.
Source: Global Times | 2020/5/18 13:25:54

Facing coronavirus scourge, US must put aside animosity

The novel coronavirus continues to churn the world by crushing public health systems and decimating thousands of lives each passing day. As the world's two most resourceful economies, the US and China should join hands in working out better therapeutics and speed up vaccine testing and development.
Source: Global Times | 2020/4/12 18:03:40

Felines can catch coronavirus, study finds, prompting WHO investigation

Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable, according to a study published on Wednesday, prompting the WHO to say it will take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets.
Source: Reuters | 2020/4/10 21:08:41

Primordial worm-like creature was forerunner to most animals – including us

A worm-like creature smaller than a grain of rice that burrowed on the seafloor in search of meals like dead organic matter about 555 million years ago may be the evolutionary forerunner of most animals living today - including people.
Source: Reuters | 2020/3/28 4:53:40

Unity can ease medical supply shortages in the world

As #COVID-19 spreads across the world, nations should together devise an emergency coordination mechanism to remove transportation barriers to solve the shortage of medical supplies in countries that need them most.
Source: Global Times | 2020/3/16 20:58:40

Herding an economic revival tentatively, cautiously

It is heartening to see that the ferocious spread of the coronavirus has been effectively contained in China, which has been evidenced by the single-digit daily new infections in the worst-hit city of Wuhan. Other provinces and cities in the country have largely been cleared of the disease.
Source: Global Times | 2020/3/15 21:30:20

US must provide accurate COVID-19 information

Lacking transparency and an efficient response to the spread of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), the US government has blinded global markets. Amid an epidemic that is sprawling worldwide, certainty is what the world needs most.
Source: Global Times | 2020/3/2 22:26:42

Billion-year-old Chinese seaweed is oldest green plant fossil

Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
Source: Reuters | 2020/2/29 9:58:40