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Chinese President Xi Jinping's remarks at the World Economic Forum Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda on Monday have boosted confidence in upholding multilateralism and injected impetus into joint response to global challenges, experts said.
2021-01-20 16:36:00 GMT2021-01-21 00:36:00(Beijing Time) Xinhua English JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 2020 was at 3.3 percent which was the lowest inflation recorded since 2004, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday. Stats SA attributed food and non-alcoholic beverages as the main drivers of inflation in December with a monthly increase of 0.5 percent and an annual rise of 6.0 percent. This was up from November's annual reading of 5.8 percent. "Meat prices rose by 7.3 percent from a year ago and by 1.2 percent from...
2021-01-01 14:28:29 GMT2021-01-01 22:28:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English A man sits outside the office building of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat in Accra, capital of Ghana, Aug. 17, 2020. (Ghana Presidency/Handout via Xinhua) NAIROBI, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) begins Friday, making it the world's largest free trade area in terms of participating member states after the formation of the World Trade Organization. "It is the start of a new era of trade between African countries," said South African...