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Homestays with B&B make trips a breeze By Zhu Wenqian | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-26 08:59 Share CLOSE Visitors pass by a rural homestay in Shaoyang, Hunan province, in July. [Photo by TENG ZHIZHONG/FOR CHINA DAILY] Over a weekend earlier this month, I made a trip to the ancient city of Pingyao in North Chinas Shanxi province. I stayed at a minsu, which roughly translates as "Chinese-style bed-and-breakfast homestay", part of an e...

Sisi Renews State of Emergency in Egypt for 3 Months The Media Line Staff 04/25/2021 Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has declared a state of emergency throughout the country for three months. It began early Sunday morning. The decision was published in the Official Gazette, which said that it comes in view of the “serious security and health conditions” that the country is going through. This is the sixteenth time that the state of emergency has been renewed since it was first i...

Egypt, Sudan to build port in border area Egypt and Sudan agreed to set up a joint committee for the development of the port of Wadi Halfa in Sudan, as part of efforts to boost bilateral relations. A Sudanese police officer is rowed to a passenger steamboat that has just arrived from Aswan at the Sudanese frontier town of Wadi Halfa on the River Nile, circa 1950. April 19, 2021 CAIRO — At a meeting held in Khartoum April 12, and chaired by Sudans Minister of Transport Mirghani Mousa, ...

Gajapati (Odisha) [India], April 12 (ANI): The police sealed two cinema halls in Paralakhemundi in Odisha's Gajapati district for violating COVID guidelines and two others for not renewing the licence, in the last two days, said Achyutananda Jani, Additional Tahasildar and Executive Magistrate Paralakhemundi.

Unlawful Nature of North Sinai Demolitions Forced evictions or transfers of a civilian population on the one hand and home demolitions and dispossession of private property on the other are related but distinctive issues. International human rights law and international humanitarian law generally prohibit both when imposed by state authorities, except as measures of last resort to protect civilians or for “absolute” military necessity. Human Rights Watch has previously described how the si...

‘Such orders won’t stand in court of law’

Anjali Bhardwaj Among 12 Winners of US State Depts Anti-Corruption Champions Award Bhardwaj founded the Satark Nagrik Sangathan in 2003, whose pioneering work has been to create report cards for elected representatives across a field of categories.  Anjali Bhardwaj. Photo: Twitter/@AnjaliB_ World24/Feb/2021 New Delhi: The US state department has announced Anjali Bhardwaj as one of the 12 inaugural winners of the International Anticorruption Champions Award. The Right to Information activist ...

Chinas sharing economy is expected to rebound anywhere between 10-15 percent in 2021, maintaining an annual growth pace of 10 percent in the following five years, according to China Sharing Economy Development Report (2021), released by the State Information Center.

If people who work for the government tell us our safety depends on us not knowing what they do, we might suspect that they wanted to cover up wrong-doing. Unless, it seems, they work for state security agencies. South Africa’s media are awash with shock at “bombshell” revelations about the country’s security services at the hearings of a commission of inquiry into “state capture”. Testimony shows that the State Security Agency, which is meant to provide the government with intellig...

If people who work for the government tell us our safety depends on us not knowing what they do, we might suspect that they wanted to cover up wrong-doing. Unless, it seems, they work for state security agencies. South Africa’s media are awash with shock at “bombshell” revelations about the country’s security services at the hearings of a commission of inquiry into “state capture”. Testimony shows that the State Security Agency, which is meant to provide the government with intellig...