China approves city plan for Beijing core area
Beijing: China has approved a detailed plan for the core area of the capital city of Beijing for the 2018-2035 period, stressing its functions of serving central administrative organs as well as the firm and orderly relief of its non-capital roles. “The core area is where Beijing’s functions as the nation’s political, cultural and international […]
Read MoreItaly: Matt Dillon guest at Rome’s first floating cinema
Rome: Matt Dillon will be a special guest at Rome’s Floating Theatre, in the EUR district of the capital, at 23.00 on Thursday 27 August. The appearance of the American actor follows the recent launch of Rome’s first floating cinema, inaugurated by veteran US director Oliver Stone on 24 August. Dillon, who has joined the […]
Read MoreAmbassador Stefano Pontecorvo optimistic about Afghanistan peace
Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Stefano Pontecorvo Thursday expressed optimism about peace in Afghanistan. Earlier, Maulawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, a senior member of the Taliban movement, met Ambassador Pontecorvo in Doha to discuss the US-Taliban February deal and current situation in Afghanistan. “I met the Taliban representation in Doha. I reiterated NATO’s support […]
Read More40 years on, Shenzhen still China’s reform and opening-up paragon
Shenzhen: Southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, a landmark in the country’s reform and opening-up drive, on Wednesday marked the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the special economic zone. Over the past four decades, Shenzhen has transformed from a small fishing village into a modern metropolis with a permanent population of over 13 million. It […]
Read MoreItaly: Andrea Bocelli offers reward for missing dog lost in sea off Sardinia
Rome: Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has appealed for the safe return of his pet dog Pallina which apparently slipped off his boat and disappeared into the sea off Sardinia. Bocelli took to social media to launch his appeal, saying that Pallina – “our Italian whippet” – is missing in the stretch of sea between Liscia […]
Read MoreItaly: Rome to name metro station after ‘black partisan’
Rome: Rome city council backed a motion in early August to name a future Metro C station after the so-called partigiano nero or ‘black partisan’ Giorgio Marincola, instead of the planned name of Amba Aradam – Ipponio. “Rome is proudly anti-fascist,” said mayor Virginia Raggi who declared that Marincola “sacrificed his life for the good […]
Read MoreNational museum exhibits over 140 antiques from China’s Bronze Age
Beijing: More than 140 bronze antiques from China’s bronze age were recently exhibited at the National Museum of China. Dating back to multiple dynasties including Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han, which spanned from around 1600 B.C. to A.D. 220, all the antiques were excavated in Baoji, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and nearby areas. According to […]
Read MoreItaly defense minister in Beirut today with aid
Rome: Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini will be in Beirut today (Monday), presenting emergency aid mobilized by his country’s military to help Lebanon following the devastating explosion in the capital on Aug. 4 and a spike in COVID-19 cases. Nave San Giusto — a vessel carrying more than 500 soldiers along with chemical warfare and […]
Read MoreOnline activities continue at China Cultural Center in Pakistan during Coronavirus
Islamabad: The COVID-19 pandemic had a sudden and substantial impact on the arts and cultural heritage sector. The global health crisis and the uncertainly resulting from it profoundly affected organizations operations as well as individuals across the sector. By March 2020, most cultural institutions across the world were indefinitely closed (or at least with their […]
Read MoreItaly’s FM to meet Chinese counterpart in Rome next week
Rome: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio in Rome on Tuesday, the Italian foreign ministry said on Friday, amid tensions over telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies. Italy has not joined the United States in imposing restrictions on Huawei but the company was excluded from a recent Telecom Italia tender […]
Read MoreAshraf Ghani, Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo discuss peace process
Kabul: Afghanistan’s President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday met NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Stefano Pontecorvo and discussed issues including the peace process in Afghanistan, the Presidential Palace said. In the meeting attended by National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib, the two sides exchanged views on the peace process, strengthening and equipping Afghan national security […]
Read MoreChina vows to help market entities flourish to buoy recovery
Beijing, As enterprises continue to face challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, China pledged to adopt further measures that would directly benefit businesses, in a bid to enhance the foundation of economic recovery and growth. Earlier this week, a host of steps were adopted at the State Council’s executive meeting to support the real economy […]
Read MoreItaly: Milan is the city that reads the most
Milan: Milan is the Italian city that reads the most, claiming the title for the eighth consecutive year, according to online book retailer Amazon.it. The ranking of Italian cities that buy the most books takes into consideration the number of titles in print and digital format purchased by Amazon.it customers during the last year. Exploring […]
Read MoreXi’s visit to flood-stricken areas embodies “people first”
Hefei: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to flood-stricken areas this week has once again demonstrated the commitment to putting people first in governance. Inspecting east China’s Anhui Province, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited flood-affected residents, checked the progress made […]
Read MoreItaly: Oliver Stone to open Rome’s first floating cinema
Rome: Rome is preparing to unveil a floating cinema on the lake in the EUR neighbourhood, which will be launched by Oscar-winning US director Oliver Stone on 24 August. The TimVision Floating Theatre will be hosted on the laghetto from 24 August until 24 September, with Stone presenting his new autobiography Cercando la luce at […]
Read MoreChina makes multi-faceted efforts to ensure grain security
Beijing: Since mid-July, Huang Xiaoping has been busy working in his 110-hectare paddy field, harvesting early rice and sowing for the next season. Huang also runs a rental business involving farm machinery in a village near the Dongting Lake, China’s second-largest freshwater lake in the central Hunan Province, helping local farmers during the “double rush” […]
Read MoreItaly: Rome’s Fiumicino airport celebrates 60 years
Rome: Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, better known as Fiumicino, celebrated its 60th birthday today (August 20). The airport, which was a symbol of restart during Italy’s post-war economic boom, opened to air traffic on 20 August 1960, five days before the start of Rome’s Olympic Games. Designed to cope with increasing demand for […]
Read MoreCommentary: China’s economy firms against twin shocks of floods, epidemic
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected east China’s Anhui Province Tuesday. Xi’s tour came at a time when the country is forging ahead with its economic resumption amid dual challenges of flood relief and regular epidemic control. While uncertainties remain regarding the outlook of the global economic recovery, China’s resilient economic performance has outshone the […]
Read MoreItaly: Rome’s zoo animals cool off with frozen fruit
Rome: Authorities at Rome’s Bioparco are ensuring the zoo’s residents are coping with the summer heat by providing the animals with swimming pools and refreshing frozen fruit. The Bioparco says that during the extreme heat the animals choose whether to go outdoors or stay in their shelters. For those who venture outside there are new […]
Read MoreTrack-laying of Beijing-Xiong’an intercity railway completed
Beijing: The track-laying of the Beijing-Xiong’an intercity railway, a key project for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, was completed on Monday. The last steel track of 500 meters long was laid at 10:30 a.m. on Monday in the Xiong’an New Area, north China’s Hebei Province, marking the completion of the track-laying work for […]
Read MoreItaly: Venice activists celebrate as cruise ships steer clear of canal city
Venice: Venice activists are celebrating the decision by two major cruise operators to drop the lagoon city from their itineraries, for the rest of the year at least. MSC Cruises and Costa Crociere both announced in recent days that their Mediterranean cruises will now depart from Genoa and Trieste instead of Venice. MSC resumed sailing […]
Read MoreItaly looking to quench Champions League title thirst
Ankara: Italian football clubs have craved a UEFA Champions League title ever since Inter Milan in 2010 became the last Italian team to claim Europe’s top-tier trophy. Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho led Inter to a 2-0 victory against German powerhouse Bayern Munich in the final in Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Argentine forward Diego Milito scored […]
Read MoreXinjiang builds China’s largest province-level power network
China Economic Net Beijing: Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has built the country’s largest province-level power network, according to the State Grid’s Xinjiang branch. Some 71.7 billion yuan (about 10.33 billion U.S. dollars) has been invested in the region’s power grid development during the 2016-2020 period, the company said. Xinjiang has so far built […]
Read MoreItaly urges tourists to act responsibly to keep COVID-19 rates low
Rome: Health authorities in Italy say returning tourists must act responsibly to help maintain the country’s low rate of new COVID-19 infections. Italy moved to stage three of its recovery in the middle of June. In July it managed to keep the rate of infection stable, with 300 or fewer new cases a day. That’s […]
Read MoreXi’s vision of eco-protection guides China’s green development
Hangzhou: Every day, thousands of tourists board a train in a small village in east China’s Zhejiang Province for a sight-seeing trip that takes them to various household-run plantations. While offering visitors an exhilarating scenery, Lujia Village invariably impresses them with its achievements in eco-protection. Garbage sorting is extensively practiced in the village, which also […]
Read MoreItaly: Four million bees die
Rome; Italian forestry officials are conducting an investigation into the unexplained death of around four million bees which died in a small area between Brescia and Cremona in northern Italy, reports Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. The bees died overnight, between the evening of 7 August and the morning of 8 August, in what farming […]
Read MoreChina’s financial industry steady
Beijing: China’s financial industry has been steadily operating with generally controllable risks, Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) told Xinhua in an interview. “Stock, bond and foreign exchange markets in the country have shown strong resilience and anti-risk capability since the outbreak of the epidemic,” Guo said, adding that […]
Read MoreItaly: 3,000 people volunteer for covid-19 vaccine trials in Rome
Rome: More than 3,000 people have volunteered to take part in human trials for an Italian-developed coronavirus vaccine, reports news agency ANSA. This was announced by Francesco Vaia, the health director of Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital, a specialist centre for infectious diseases which has played a central role in battling Italy’s covid-19 crisis. The Rome […]
Read MorePakistan’s camel milk to be very popular in Chinese market: Prof Cheng
China Economic Net Beijing: The Chinese and Pakistani enterprises may conduct on the spot studies and cooperate in camel milk production and sales as it will be very popular in the Chinese market, Cheng Xizhong, visiting professor at Southwest University of Political Science said on Wednesday. The camel milk has long been produced in Pakistan, […]
Read MoreFerragosto: Italy’s summer holiday in August
Rome: Italy marks the national holiday of Ferragosto each year on 15 August, the feast of the Assumption, the day when Catholics believe the Virgin Mary ascended to heaven, body and soul, at the end of her earthly life. The origins of Italy’s Ferragosto, however, date back to Roman times, with the Feriae Augusti introduced […]
Read MoreAmbassador Andreas Ferrarese joins plantation drive
Islamabad: Ambassador of Italy Andreas Ferrarese on Tuesday planted an olive tree at the Embassy compound. “We look forward to plant many more,” he said in a statement. The envoy said he hoped to further enhance the friendship between Pakistan and Italy. This week, Prime Minister Imran Khan launched the largest tree plantation drive in […]
Read MoreChina to resolutely deepen opening-up of financial sector: central bank governor
Beijing: China will resolutely push forward the opening-up of the country’s financial industry regardless of how the international situation changes, the central bank governor told Xinhua in a recent interview. China will continue implementing the phase-one economic and trade agreement with the United States, while measures announced to open up China’s financial sector will continue, […]
Read MoreItaly: Rome recipe — Pollo alla Romana
Rome: A home-cooked classic, this Roman-style chicken dish is a wonderful summer recipe which makes the most of the season’s bright, plump, bell peppers. Tender pieces of chicken are slowly cooked with tomato, peppers and onion until the meat is falling off the bone and the sauce becomes succulent, sweet and sticky. A true crowd-pleaser, […]
Read MoreChinese economy’s V-shaped recovery becomes more prominent
Beijing: China’s economy, as shown by multiple mid-year indicators, has ridden out its downturn due to COVID-19 strains and bounced back to growth in the second quarter (Q2). Economists believe that the country’s V-shaped recovery is only getting started. In Q2, China’s gross domestic product expanded by 3.2 percent year on year, reversing a 6.8-percent […]
Read MoreItaly: Rooster crows too early, man fined
Milan: An 83-year-old man in the Lodi area of northern Italy has been fined €166 because his rooster was disturbing the neighbours at 04.30 every morning, reports Italian news agency ANSA. The man, a retired bricklayer from Castiraga Vidardo, had kept the bird in his garden for a few weeks during which the early cock […]
Read MoreCovid-19: Italy an inspiration to other countries, says WHO
Rome: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has said that other countries are learning from Italy’s efforts in tackling the coronavirus. “Grazie mille @robersperanza, #Italy Health Minister, for a very good call and for your strong support to @WHO,” Tedros commented as he retweeted a post by Italian health minister Roberto […]
Read MoreDrama adapted from Chinese legend highlights New Zealand school’s centenary anniversary
Wellington: A group of school girls in Wellington performed a stage play adapted from a traditional Chinese legend before an audience of over 400 as the highlight of the school’s centenary anniversary on Friday. The biennial stage play, The Secret of Tung Ting Lake, tells the story of a village boy’s adventure in Dongting Lake […]
Read MoreItaly: Pompeii unveils new hidden secrets
Rome: Pompeii was the first Italian archaeological site to reopen to the public after the coronavirus shutdown. The first visitors after the three-month closure were welcomed on 26 May, with initial access only through the Amphitheatre entrance for small groups following strict one-way itineraries. Since 9 June the rules have relaxed somewhat, with the popular […]
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