Gwadar Pro Beijing: Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, which had the country’s largest remaining poor population at the end of last year, has eradicated absolute poverty, officials said. The last nine counties in the province were delisted from the poverty-stricken county list, which meant all its 88 poverty-stricken counties have shaken off poverty, said Huang Yunbo, […]
Read MoreToshifumi Kitamura Tokyo: Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring with a fight in Tokyo in February 2021, organizers said, but who he will fight and under what rules was left unclear. The retired ex-champ had already dropped hints about the fight, which follows a widely ridiculed 2018 “exhibition” match against a Japanese […]
Read MoreLausanne: Australian swimmer Shayna Jack was banned for two years on Monday for accidental doping, with her sanction expiring days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judge decided “Jack did not intentionally ingest ligandrol and considered that she had discharged her onus of proving that the […]
Read MoreLahore: Pakistan cricket team’s bowling coach, commentator, former pacer Waqar Younis celebrated his 49th birthday on November 16 and received love and prayers from friends and fans on social media.Younis began his cricketing career in 1987/88 by playing for several first-class cricket clubs. His international career kicked off in 1989 till 2003. Being a talented […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator A. Rehman Malik has said that Kashmiris have the right of getting United Nations Security Council resolutions implemented.Addressing a group of law students from London, he stated that after Azerbaijan’s forceful retrieval of their occupied areas, it was clear that the UNSC resolutions can only be implemented […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Amidst COVID-19 pandemic threats and multiple natural hazards, shocks and pests attacks across the borders this year, “World Food Day” is a great challenge for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to fulfill the objectives to defeat hunger completely by 2030, writes FAO representative, Mina Dowlatchahi. She wrote, “World Food Day 2020 marks the […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italian Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese called on Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi in Islamabad this week and exchanged views on bilateral relations. According to the spokesperson of the Pakistan Navy, Ambassador Andreas Ferrarese visited the National Headquarters Islamabad and called on Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad […]
Read MoreNewswire Faisalabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese has predicted that Pak-Italy bilateral trade will go up from $ 1.7 billion to its full potential of $4 billion. Addressing a meeting along with his spouse at the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) this week, the envoy said he was posted about nine months […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that NATO and the European Union were working together to establish lasting peace and “long-term stability” in Afghanistan Ambassador Pontecorvo said Pakistan will benefit much from Afghan peace process as the rest of the regional states. “Pakistan has been recognized… actually by […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has rejected Prime Minister Imran Khan’s offer to the opposition to discuss electoral reforms.Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the Senate Sherry Rehman said the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government should first accept responsibility for rigging elections in Gilgit Baltistan and then talk about reforms. “This sudden interest in electoral reforms […]
Read MoreZafaruddin Mahmood Recently I had been reading in the western media negative stories and reports about Xinjiang. These are repeated by media in other countries without verifying the facts. Unfortunately, most of the commentators are looking at China/Xinjiang through the eyes of the western media which at times is biased for one reason or the […]
Read MoreDr Javed Ali Kalhoro The recent US election results are quite surprising. The world, especially Pakistan, was conjecturing if Donald Trump is re-elected, the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan may reach its finale. The Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. also predicted that Mr Trump is going to continue with his position in the presidential office. […]
Read MoreMuhammad Asif Noor While the global north was gearing up for the mother of all elections in the US, which have strong political and strategic ripple effects, the global south was finalizing in a peaceful and purposeful manner wherein the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was […]
Read MoreAlistair Burt Assessments of what the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team might bring to US foreign policy are now well underway. Conventional analysis has much to commend it, and European capitals will endorse that. They will welcome a return to civility in discourse. If there are disagreements over policies, as will always be the case, they […]
Read MoreDr Theodore karasik The announcement by pharmaceutical company Pfizer that trials of its coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine could be more than 90 percent effective generated plenty of excitement this week. While this in itself does not guarantee delivery of a fully tested and effective vaccine, it nevertheless offers hope for Americans desperate for the pandemic to […]
Read MoreZamir Ahmed Awan – People’s Daily The 20th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a video meeting on November 10. The conference was chaired by President Putin as current Chair of SCO for the year 2019-20. All the member states took an active part, and President […]
Read MoreCornelia Meyer As the saying goes, breaking up is hard to do. This also holds true for the divorce between the UK and the EU. If things were not complicated enough in ending a 45-year partnership, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and a recession not seen in a lifetime have certainly made matters worse. In 2019, […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times On the night when all US media declared the victory of Joe Biden as the new US president, I invited scholars from China, the US, Europe and Latin America to collaborate with the No Cold War campaign to a seminar themed “the Future of China-US relations.” The initiative of “No […]
Read MoreLondon: This week, people around the world got a pleasant surprise when Pfizer on Monday announced that its vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis?. Within hours of the announcement, several countries like UK, India, […]
Read MoreKochi: On the south side of the island of Shikoku, framed by two enormous peninsulas, Kochi is one of Japan’s least-visited prefectures – at least by foreigners. It’s a popular destination for Japanese Shingon Buddhists looking to worship at the auspicious 88 Temples of Shikoku, the country’s most famous pilgrimage trail. But it’s also popular […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: The Embassy of Japan, in line with the PM Imran Khan’s initiative, ’Clean-Green Pakistan’, donated 20 Jasmine trees to Japanese Park in Islamabad. Matsuda Kuninori, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, along with the State Minister for Climate Change, Zartaj Gul planted Jasmine trees at the Park during a tree plantation ceremony. Naveed Tareen […]
Read MoreIslamabad: There are a lot of rich people among the ruling party, a detailed report on the financial assets of National Assembly members, including Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) released the report. According to the details, the total value of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s assets stand at Rs 80.6 […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has said that the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban does not mean handover of Afghanistan to the Taliban.Speaking at webinar on “NATO and Afghanistan Peace Process” organized by the Conservative Friends of Afghanistan, he said: “We don’t think that the Taliban […]
Read MoreMajid Abbasi Rawalpindi: As a custodian of the oldest civilization and hallmark of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan, the traditional folk music of Pothohar region is vital for promoting soft image of the country through the message of love and peace in the medium of universal language. Over the years, the arts, crafts and […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Rehman Malik has said that the young people were the future of the country. A delegation of the Student Youth Council called on Senator A. Rehman Malik Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior at Parliament House, Islamabad. The delegation of Youth Council included students from various […]
Read MoreA new study by Monash University has found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been linked to an increased risk of dementia. The study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and led by Dr Melinda Jackson from the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, found that severe OSA is linked to an increase […]
Read MoreMore than half of young adults at risk for alcohol-related harm report symptoms of insomnia. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the first-line treatments for insomnia, but it’s never been tested on young adults who are actively drinking.Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine conducted a pilot study to evaluate CBT’s effect […]
Read MoreA clinical trial at the University of Arizona Health Sciences designed to study the safety and effectiveness of a personalized cancer vaccine in combination with the immunotherapy drug Pembrolizumab will expand its cohort after promising preliminary data was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer. Julie E. Bauman, MD, […]
Read MorePurav Joshi New York: Everybody knows about the American tennis sensation Serena Williams, but not many know about her business off the court. Apart from being the former World No. 1 tennis player, the 39 years old American is a genius investor. With her diversified portfolio of businesses, she has gained the reputation of being […]
Read MoreLahore: Pakistan has named Babar Azam as their new Test captain, putting him in charge of teams across all formats.Babar’s tenure as Pakistan’s captain in the longest format will start against New Zealand in December.World No. 5 Babar Azam has been appointed Pakistan’s Test captain, confirmed PCB on Tuesday, adding that Azhar Ali has stepped […]
Read MoreLahore: Alia Zafar has been named as one of the independent directors on the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), becoming the first female to have been appointed to the post in the cricket-crazy South Asian nation.Zafar, a human resources executive, was included among four new PCB directors. The others are finance executive Javed Kurieshi, economist Asim […]
Read MoreBeijing: China’s manned space program has entered the mission preparation stage with the selection of a new group of 18 reserve astronauts. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the reserve astronauts, including one female, have been selected recently from 2,500 candidates. Among them are seven spacecraft pilots, seven space flight engineers and four […]
Read MoreIslamabad: An expedition to probe the deep recesses of a cave that may contain fossilized specimens of early humans is currently underway in South Africa. An international team of paleoanthropologists is exploring the Rising Star Cave at a site in South Africa dubbed the Cradle of Humankind, which is located roughly 25 miles (40 kilometers) […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. Mars’ gravity is […]
Read MoreBeijing: China’s new deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe, or Striver, set a national diving record of 10,909 meters last week in the Challenger Deep, a 11,000-meter chasm located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, according to China Central Television. The submersible first broke the 10,000-meter milestone by descending to 10,058 […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Shanghai: Pakistani enterprises of diverse industries are exhibiting at the ongoing 3rd China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai. Among all the exhibits, a small anti-counterfeiting mark unfolds how close the Pak-Sino economic ties are. In Pakistan, tobacco use contributes to a significant number of early deaths, high healthcare costs and lost productivity. […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pak-China Conference held here lauded China’s poverty alleviation strategy as a model for Pakistan.Pakistan-China Institute (PCI) and Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Lahore University for Medical Sciences (LUMS) co-hosted a virtual conference on “Poverty Alleviation, Covid-19, and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)” as part of PCI’s ‘Friends of Silk Road’ Initiative. The conference […]
Read MoreRome: Animals are once again the winners as the Palatine Hill closes to visitors. Wild animals and birds have welcomed the closure of Parco Colosseo, the archaeological park comprising the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill and Domus Aurea. With Italy’s museums and cultural sites closed due to the latest covid-19 restrictions, the Parco Colosseo animals […]
Read MoreHada Messia and Lianne Kolirin Rome: If music be the food of love, play on – especially when coronavirus restrictions leave you with little other option.Prevented from visiting his sick wife in hospital, 81-year-old Stefano Bozzini decided to take to the street outside to serenade her on his accordion. The touching moment was captured on […]
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