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  ISLAMABAD, Jan. 21 (Gwadar Pro) - Federation of Pakistan Chambers and Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Chairman Qurban Ali on Wednesday evening invited Swedish investors to join the grand mega project of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and related Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in different regions of Pakistan.   Presiding over a meeting with the Ambassador of Sweden to Pakistan Henrik Persson along with senior business leaders including Coordinator Capital House, FPCCI Mirza Abdur Reha...

  The prospects of growth in online sales are huge and promising in Pakistan. The countrys e-commerce in recent years has increased two-fold but still, it is in the early stage of development. The Chinese e-commerce model and experience can greatly benefit Pakistans e-commerce industry if it is followed correctly.   In his recent tweet, Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan for Commerce and Investment Abdul Razzq Dawood termed Pakistan as one of the largest potential e-commerce markets in the...

Ugandas incumbent President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday was declared winner of the countrys presidential elections held on Jan. 14.   Justice Simon Byabakama, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission said Museveni garnered 58.64 percent of the votes tallied.   Museveni, 76-year-old, beat his main rival, the 38-year-old Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, a popular musician turned politician. Kyagulanyi got 34.83 percent of the total votes tallied.   Observers say this has been one of Ugandas ...

Construction of the first batch of 1,500 rooms for centralized medical observation has been completed in five days in a city in north Chinas Hebei Province, local authorities said Saturday.   The center, using the land of a newly-built factory, is among the makeshift facilities with a total of 6,500 rooms planned to be urgently built at six locations in the city of Nangong to curb the spread of COVID-19.   Each room with an area of 18 square meters is equipped with a bed, electric heater, toi...

  Pakistani and Chinese scholars lauded the role of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in fighting against pandemic and diversifying Pakistan’s economy on a webinar titled "Evaluation of Chinas Belt-Road Project from different perspectives" Thursday.   Prof Tang Zhichao, Director of Middle East Studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences said at the occasion that although the epidemic has affected the construction of BRI, it has played a key role in fighting the epidemic, stabilizing the economy, rest...

Germanys ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Saturday elected Armin Laschet as its party chairman after an online vote, which is widely seen as a crucial step paving the way for the era after Angela Merkel retires from her post.     In a run-off, Laschet garnered 521 votes beating the pro-business conservative Friedrich Merz, who got 466 votes.   A third candidate, foreign policy expert Norbert Roettgen, was knocked out in the first round of the voting.   To make the online election ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Saturday said the country will start vaccination in March. Meanwhile, more than 675,000 health workers in Turkey have received COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinas Sinovac.   Addressing a national committee meeting on fighting COVID-19, Rouhani said Iran will begin mass vaccination by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2021).   He also urged people to observe all necessary health protocols, saying if health protocols are not implemented, t...

Excluding tourism services, which suffered a heavy blow due to the pandemic, Chinas services trade rose 2.2 percent year on year in the January-November period, data by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) showed.   As Chinas foreign trade in goods has notched a historic high in 2020 despite COVID-19 strains, the services trade sector is also expected to embrace more vitality amid the countrys efforts to open its market wider to the rest of the world.   While data on services trade for the whole ye...

  ISLAMABAD, Jan. 17 (Gwadar Pro) - Chinas "dual circulation" economic development pattern by making China strong and wealthy is also likely to take China-Pakistan economic and strategic collaboration to a new level of partnership as Chinas success is also success for Pakistan.   The above view was expressed by Syed Hasan Javed,Director of Chinese Studies Center, School of Social Sciences and Humanities in National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad. He said that China s �...

Iran has warned the United States to stop "illegal actions" taken against its diplomats on U.S. soil, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh declared on Saturday.   "Iran has officially warned the U.S. that it will sue it before the International Court of Justice if it does not stop its illegal actions against Iranian diplomats in international organizations," Khatibzadeh said, as quoted by news agency IRNA.   The spokesman noted an official warning has been ...