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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interim PM of Pakistan Anwaarul Haq Kakar, Taliban ministers will be attending the third Belt and Road Summit in China this week. Chinese President Xi Jinping will be hosting delegates from 130 countries and 30 global organisations at the forum held to mark 10 years of the initiative.
Enterprises and professional service providers in Hong Kong have developed their business in the countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which fully demonstrates Hong Kong's professional services are at the forefront of the BRI, said John Lee, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), hkcna reported on Sunday.
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The first section of Kenya's Chinese-built railway was opened with much fanfare in 2017 - but two years later work on the tracks stopped in the middle of the country and the master plan of linking it to other landlocked countries in East Africa seems to have derailed. This means the project is not bringing as much money as was hoped at this stage, while Kenya is left servicing loans totalling around $4.7bn (£3.9bn), mainly borrowed from Chinese banks. "It's great," 53-year-old commuter Pauline Echesa told me.
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Kenya and a railway to nowhere