What gifts did Melania Trump get from Xi Jinping and Brigitte Macron? 5 special presents from world leaders – think Ferragamo and Givenchy handbags, and bespoke tableware Leah Simpson Former US first lady Melania Trump with China’s first lady Peng Liyuan, during a visit to a school in Beijing, China in November 2017 – making and receiving such visits is part of the job for a first lady and is usually accompanied by the giving of gifts. Photo: EPA-EFE
When Melania Trump first entered the White House she had the world wondering what was in the Tiffany-coloured box she gave Michelle Obama. It turns out the gift was a lovely frame , according to the outgoing first lady.
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What would happen if online deliveries from China’s tech giants stopped overnight? This city offers a glimpse Yujie Xue yujie.xue@scmp.com Volunteers check orders of daily necessity goods at a supermarket according to requests from residents in quarantine in Tonghua, northeast China s Jilin Province, Jan. 24, 2021. Photo: Xinhua/Xu Chang
A humanitarian crisis of sorts took place in a Chinese town last week after the local authority imposed draconian measures to lock down 300,000 residents to contain an outbreak of Covid-19.
Going underground: the cheapest, deepest, oldest subway systems in the world – but which is home to its own mosquito? A trial run of the London Underground, in 1862. Photo: Getty Images
Depending on definition (some are more overground than underground), there are about 180 public subway systems worldwide. The world s first was Britain s London Underground, which opened in January 1863. The steam-powered, gas-lit trains that ran between Paddington and Farringdon stations offered a thrilling alternative to horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses.
Fast forward 156 years and Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, celebrated the opening of the world s newest network in December 2019, making it the 38th Chinese city with a rail transit system.
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Drug firms should not forget about tackling TB SCMP Editorial There is only one licensed tuberculosis vaccine, a treatment commonly known as BCG that is a century old this year and is effective only in infants. Photo: Shutterstock
A world longing to get back to business is obviously focused on the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines. But as damaging to lives and economies as the pandemic is, there are other diseases that wreak as devastating a death toll annually that we must not lose sight of.
There is no overall protection against what scientists call the big three , malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/Aids, which each year kill an estimated 2.7 million people. The extraordinary disruption to health care systems caused by the coronavirus risks dramatically raising the number of deaths from these diseases unless there is greater global financial and political will.