By Sir Ronald Sanders Recent remarks by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have drawn attention to the Panama Canal. He accused the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) of charging higher fees for U.S. ships passing through the canal compared to other nations. Mr. Trump, who is to be inaugurated for a second time as President on January […]
Editorial credit: Muhammad Aamir Sumsum / Shutterstock.com By Trevor Hunnicutt | Reuters WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled steep tariff increases on an array of Chinese imports including electric vehicle (EV) batteries, computer chips and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing as he woos American voters who give his economic policies […]
By Sheena Forde-Craigg Government has signed an Exchange of Notes agreement for the acquisition of electric buses with the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) of the People’s Republic of China. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, and CIDCA’s Chairman Luo Zhaohui, signed the agreement this morning at the Ministry’s Office, Culloden […]
Editorial credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com By David Lawder | Reuters BEIJING, April 8 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China on Monday that Washington will not accept new industries being decimated by Chinese imports, as she wrapped up four days of meetings to press her case for Beijing to rein in excess […]
Prime Minister Dr Roosevelt Skerrit announced that Dominica has the best National Hospital in the OECS. He stated that the same treatment people could get in the USA for cancer treatment, the DLP-led government offered to the people at the Dominica China Friendship Hospital’s oncology department. During the launch event of Melissa Poponne Skerrit for […]
By Melissa Zhu, BBC News Scientists are tracking a new, animal-derived virus in eastern China that has infected at least several dozen people. The novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) was found in 35 patients in the Shandong and Henan provinces. Many had symptoms such as fever, fatigue and a cough. They are thought to have contracted […]
Uigur women work in a cloth factory in Hotan county, Xinjiang province, China. – Hotan China April 27 2019 (Shutterstock) By Matthew Hill, David Campanale, and Joel Gunter, BBC News Women in China’s “re-education” camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed new accounts obtained by the BBC. You may find […]
The coronavirus outbreak has been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).
By BBC WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks. He said he was “deeply concerned” by “alarming levels of inaction” over the virus. A pandemic is a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time. […]
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The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The concern is that it could […]