Category: Education

CDF must increase pupil access to computers, prods Mayoress Constance Muleabai

By Chali Mulenga LIVINGSTONE City Mayoress Constance Muleabai has urged schools in her city to apply for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in order to enhance their digital infrastructure. Ms. Muleabai emphasized that just as schools were encouraged to increase the number of desks, they should equally prioritize increasing the availability of computers in schools. Mayoress Muleabai highlighted the government’s commitment to improving digital infrastructure in schools and expressed concern over the limited number of functioning computers at Mulwani School. Speaking at the launch event held at Mulwani Combined School, Mayoress Muleabai commended Development 360 for their efforts in promoting...

Xi Focus-Closeup: A fresh rendition of an ancient Hezhe ethnic song

Xi Focus-Closeup: A fresh rendition of an ancient Hezhe ethnic song Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-01 18:46:00 This photo taken with a mobile phone shows You Minghao’s grandmother helping him wear a traditional fish-skin hat at a handicraft workshop in Bacha Village of Tongjiang City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, April 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Yue) HARBIN, June 1 (Xinhua) — “The brave and hard-working Hezhe people. In the Three-river Plain, we live and prosper…” Every time You Minghao, 12, performs the mesmerizing Hezhe ballad “Wusuli River,” it stirs memories of the rainy afternoon when his village warmly welcomed a special guest,...

Xi Focus-Closeup: A teenager’s enduring bond with trees

Xi Focus-Closeup: A teenager’s enduring bond with trees

Xi Focus-Closeup: A teenager’s enduring bond with trees Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-01 20:58:45 This video screenshot shows Liu Weiran (R) and her mother looking at a Chinese toon tree near their apartment building in Beijing, capital of China, May 7, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Peiran) BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) — From a small sapling to a tree, Liu Weiran, a curious 17-year-old, has often pondered how much a tree grows each year. Consequently, the eleventh grader from Tsinghua University High School-Chaoyang acquired a habit of regularly visiting the crabapple tree she planted six years ago. “At that time, I was not...

Xi Focus-Closeup: The growth story of a “dot”

Xi Focus-Closeup: The growth story of a “dot” Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-01 19:48:16 This photo taken on March 30, 2023 shows a view of Luotuowan Village, Fuping County, north China’s Hebei Province. (Photo by Bai Xu/Xinhua) SHIJIAZHUANG, June 1 (Xinhua) — The dot Tang Xiaoyi uses as his social media handle is invisible to many. Similarly, his home village Luotuowan, in Fuping County, north China’s Hebei Province, may appear as just another dot on the country’s digital map. However, the village’s remarkable strides in poverty reduction cannot be disregarded. Situated less than 40 km from Fuping’s county seat, Luotuowan...

Xiplomacy: China-Africa reciprocal cooperation prospers thanks to close people-to-people bonds

Xiplomacy: China-Africa reciprocal cooperation prospers thanks to close people-to-people bonds Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-02 00:38:15 Doctors from the 29th Chinese medical team to the Republic of the Congo provide physical exam for children at an adoption center in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, May 30, 2023. (Photo by Guy-Gervais Kitina/Xinhua) To celebrate this year’s International Children’s Day that falls on Thursday, China and the Organization of African First Ladies for Development launched the “Warm Children’s Hearts, a China-Africa Joint Action” initiative to arouse public awareness and show their love and care for African children. Over the...

Xi Story: Xi’s commitment to empowering Chinese children

Xi Story: Xi’s commitment to empowering Chinese children Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-01 18:52:45 Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with students at a science classroom of Beijing Yuying School in Beijing, capital of China, May 31, 2023. Xi on Wednesday visited Beijing Yuying School and extended festival greetings to children across the country ahead of International Children’s Day, which falls on June 1. (Xinhua/Wang Ye) BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) — Ahead of International Children’s Day, which is celebrated on June 1 every...

GLOBALink | Xi’s care for “water tower”

GLOBALink | Xi’s care for “water tower” Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-05 10:31:12 0:00 /5:48 XINING, June 5 (Xinhua) — Sanjiangyuan in Qinghai contains the headwaters of China’s three major rivers. President Xi Jinping underlines the importance of preserving the area and has shown deep care for how it has integrated ecological protection with improvements to local people’s livelihoods. Produced by Xinhua Global Service Copyright©2000-2023XINHUANET.com All rights reserved.

New ICRISAT-FAO Partnership to Support Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Boosting Cereal Production

New ICRISAT-FAO Partnership to Support Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Boosting Cereal Production Media Release The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to enhance the productivity of millet and sesame crops in Saudi Arabia.This collaboration, which supports the desert nation’s ambitions toward achieving greater advancement in food production, will also promote economic diversification, conservation, and the use and application of digital tools to tackle unique challenges in the face of limited natural resources, particularly water. Despite only 3% of the agricultural land being irrigated by rainfall, the...

Consumers to save K1.5bn from fuel price drop, says Dr. Johnstone Chikwanda

Since April this year fuel pump prices have been steadily falling and this will lead to petroleum products consumers saving an accumulated K1.5billion, reports *Francis Lungu* . Giving an analysis on the downward trend of fuel pump prices observed in the last three months, international energy expert Johnstone Chikwanda says in the month of April alone, the reduction in petroleum products prices resulted in consumers saving about K940million. This was followed by another K164millon saved due to the drop of prices in May, according to Dr Chikwanda. “For June the consumers will be saved K400 million. So by end of...

ATCA calls on African governments to collaborate in helping tobacco farmers shift to food crops

  AS THE world commemorates the World No Tobacco Day which is annually observed on May 31, the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) is calling on African governments to collaborate with the non-state actors in finding alternatives for tobacco farmers, reports *Francis Lungu* . This year’s World No Tobacco Day is being held around the theme “We need food, not tobacco,” to emphasize on the importance of farmers shifting from tobacco cultivation to food crops. Leading in the collaboration with the civil society and international organisations to promote better alternatives for tobacco farmers is the Kenyan government, which ATCA says...

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