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Fuji TV: According to reports, China released a notice today suspending visa issuance to Japanese citizens. Can you confirm this? If so, can you provide more information? Wang Wenbin: Since China announced the decision to manage COVID-19 with measures against Class-B infectious diseases and adopted provisional measures on cross-border travel, many countries have expressed their welcome, […]

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin Photo: VCG In 2022, five countries signed agreements with China on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation, injecting new impetus into the global economic recovery, Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday. In the latest development, during Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov’s state visit to China, the […]

This aerial photo taken on Nov. 5, 2022 shows a view of the Yangpu international container terminal in the Yangpu Economic Development Zone, south China’s Hainan Province. According to Haikou Customs statistics, in the first 11 months of 2022, the total import and export value of Hainan’s goods trade was 182.63 billion yuan (about 26.25 […]

Illustration: Xia Qing/Global Times There was some encouraging climate action in 2022, but the world remains far off track to meet the set goals of reducing global heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions and limiting future planetary warming to limit climate change. Environmentalists have called for a strong collective commitment and concerted efforts toward slashing emissions in […]

Fireworks are seen above Sydney Opera House to celebrate the New Year in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 1, 2022. Fireworks are seen above Harbour bridge to celebrate the New Year in Sydney, on Jan. 1, 2022. (Xinhua/Bai Xuefei) The combined satellite images show Tonga’s Hunga Ha’apai island on April 11, 2021 (L) and Jan. 17, 2022. […]

There are several reasons why this would be a beneficial policy. First and foremost, education is a fundamental value that should be available to all, regardless of their nationality or financial circumstances. By offering free university education to citizens of these countries, each nation would be ensuring that all of its citizens have the opportunity […]

Nationwide flight cancellations in Papua New Guinea and an increase in port charges at the start of 2023 have highlighted the chronic problems for the Pacific country, involving monopoly control of many parts of the economy. Domestic travelers on national airline Air Niugini suffered repeated cancellations over the festive season after oil company Puma Energy […]

We live on an active planet, one whose surface is constantly in motion, although imperceptibly to us most of the time. Until an earthquake occurs. This morning, just such an event happened in the seas north of the Indonesian Archipelago, where a strong (magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale) earthquake shook the region and was […]

Washington: Digital technologies can help boost productivity in Asian countries following the economic scars induced by COVID-19 pandemic measures and luckluster productivity growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a blog. “Deep economic scars from the pandemic and the lackluster productivity growth that preceded it are weighing on the region’s longer-term growth prospects. But […]

By: Johannes Nugroho Indonesia, which held this year’s G20 presidency, snared a bonanza at the recent summit in Bali when it signed a US$20 billion agreement known as the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) to help the country, Southeast Asia’s largest, phase out coal as its main source of energy. Half of that amount will […]