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* Upholding mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, China-France economic and trade cooperation continues to expand, making the

PARIS, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Leading French companies are set to invest more in China, it emerged at business talks held in Paris this week.

Premium Content Subscriber only A European renewable energy powerhouse has purchased a wind farm project in the Callide region, with up to 50 turbines to be installed on the site. EDF Renewables, the renewable energy subsidiary of the EDF Group and a global leader in low carbon energy, has acquired the Banana Range Wind Farm development project. The purchase was finalised last week and brings Goldwind Australia and Lacour Energy’s ownership tenure to an end. EDF Renewables’ growth in the...

3 May 2021 The French nuclear energy giant EDF has unveiled its first renewable energy project in Australia, a wind farm in Queensland that also has planning approval for battery storage. The majority French government owned EDF, through its EDF Renewables subsidiary, has been quietly building a portfolio of wind, energy and battery storage projects in Australia as part of its global efforts to more than double its renewable energy capacity and pipeline from 28,000 megawatts now to 60,000 megaw...

Capacity Building Cox’s Bazar – The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Bangladesh harder than any tropical cyclone. Instead of uprooting trees and hurling powerful tides from an angry sea, what’s been uprooted are entire livelihoods—as well as the families trying to survive in one of the world’s most crowded countries. Returning migrants and host communities in the southernmost district of Bangladesh are feeling the worst of the onslaught. There, some 700,000 people have lost their source of i...

IOM launches livelihoods project for returning migrants and host communities in Cox’s Bazar Format IOM/Mashrif Abdullah Al © The 24-month project aims to boost employability and entrepreneurship. Cox’s Bazar – The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Bangladesh harder than any tropical cyclone. Instead of uprooting trees and hurling powerful tides from an angry sea, what’s been uprooted are entire livelihoods—as well as the families trying to survive in one of the world’s most crowded countri...