Mozambique | Factory funded by China boosts agricultural production

The inauguration of the Chokué Agri-Industrial Complex, developed with funding from China, opens up new horizons for agricultural production in Gaza province, southern Mozambique, which now has another unit for

Fourth largest destination for Norwegian aid to Africa

Mozambique in 2014 was the fourth largest recipient of development aid provided by Norway in a group of 20 African countries, with an estimated total of 375.9 million Norwegian Kroner

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 – edition no. 2291

* New hospital design projects to be concluded by Q3 * Macau GP to have ‘Celebrity Race’ * Region said to be lacking cancer prevention measures * China frees 5 women’s rights activists   DOWNLOAD

Beijing hopes European film buff will raise festival profile

Marco Mueller’s latest of more than 100 trips to China is as general adviser to the fifth Beijing International Film Festival that opens Thursday. The Swiss-Italian’s hiring is part of

Official says PRC may raise damages caps for IP violations

The comments by Lyu Guoqiang, commissioner of Shanghai’s Intellectual Property Office, echo an action plan issued in December by the State Council, China’s top administrative authority, which called for “increasing

Authorities free 5 women’s rights activists after month detention

Chinese authorities have released five women’s rights campaigners whose detentions for more than a month sparked an international outcry and underscored the government’s tight restrictions on independent social activism. The women

Amid tensions, Li meets Japan delegation

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met yesterday with a Japanese delegation led by ex-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, amid halting efforts to reduce lingering tensions between the countries before this year’s

South Korea | Visiting empty desk of ferry victim helps mom cope

Once or twice a week, a mother’s ritual begins. Shin Jumja applies pink lipstick and face powder, gets in her car and drives to the high school her oldest son attended

Japan | Court rejects bid to restart of 2 nuclear reactors

A court issued an injunction yesterday ordering two nuclear reactors in western Japan to stay offline, rejecting regulators’ safety approval for the facility ahead of their planned restart later this

Australia | Gov’t to withhold payments from parents against vaccine

The Australian government has ramped up pressure on parents who oppose vaccination by threatening to withhold child care and other payments from families that fail to immunize their children. The government

Nigeria | President-elect: Can’t promise to find Chibok girls

On the first anniversary of the kidnapping by Islamic extremists of hundreds of girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday that he cannot promise to

USA | Ex-guards sentenced for Iraq shootings

Defense lawyers are vowing to appeal the convictions of four former Blackwater security guards after a federal judge handed down lengthy prison terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting

This Day in History: 1986 – US launches air strikes on Libya

Around 66 American jets, some of them flying from British bases launched an attack at around 0100hrs on Monday. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, has said that the strike was

Offbeat: Manufacturing firm seeks to build world’s largest surfboard

WPRO-AM reports that Bristol-based mouldCAM is building the board for the Visit Huntington Beach campaign in California, which hopes to break the world record for the most people to catch

Football | Extra Time: Burnley wins admirers, punches above its weight in England

With chimneys rising from the former cotton mills which nestle between tightly-packed houses, Burnley provides a quintessentially English vista for fans at the town’s soccer stadium. From the days Burnley was

Swimming | Michael Phelps returns to pool after suspension

Michael Phelps will compete in his first swim meet this week since returning from a six-month suspension following a second drunken driving arrest. The 18-time Olympic champion is entered in five

World Views: China’s great wall of sand

China is building new harbors and airstrips on various reefs and atolls in the Spratly Islands – facilities that, Beijing confirms, will be used for military as well as civil

The Buzz | Pole challenges anti-immigration UK politician to a duel

An aristocratic Pole has challenged an anti-immigration British politician to a duel. Jan Zylinski, who calls himself a prince, says he’s tired of U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage criticizing eastern

World briefs

CHINA Beijing police have arrested two drivers whose supercars collided during a late-night drag race, in the latest scandal to strike the much-reviled offspring of China’s newly rich. The arrests

Mick Jagger to other bands: Make every show count

The only goal The Rolling Stones have left in their career to rock on till the wheels fall off. “The only goal left is to see how far we can run

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