“Azerbaijan plans to increase the annual value of non-oil exports to $5 billion by 2025, said Head of the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Agency (AZPROMO) Yusif Abdullayev. "As AZPROMO, we are represented by a single national stand at international exhibitions and fairs
SINGAPORE, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ SenseTime today joined hands with Tech4SDG to release the White Paper "Metaverse: The New Economic Road in Asia Pacific" at SWITCH (Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology) x WAIC (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) 2022 held in Singapore. The White Paper addresses how artificial intelligence (AI) technology can boost new economic growth momentum globally and in Asia Pacific while also building an innovative and sustainable ecosystem in the emerging metaverse era. It further demonstrates how SenseTime empowers the construction and development of the metaverse with algorithms and computing power infrastructures. The White Paper, published by SenseTime's Intelligence Industry Research Institute, points out that Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries, which account for 60% of the world's population, are paying more attention to industrial development planning related to the metaverse. According to estimates by McKinsey & Comp
Photo taken on April 13, 2022 shows a wind farm in Binhai New Area, north China's Tianjin. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue) BEIJING China has seen rapid development of renewable energy in 2021, laying a solid foundation for the country's pursuit of its carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, according to a report. Last year, the country's renewable energy utilization amounted to the equivalent of saving 750 million tonnes of standard coal, helping reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 1.95 billion tonnes, the report released by the China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute showed. China's installed capacity of renewable energy reached one billion kilowatts in 2021, accounting for 44.8 percent of the country's total installed power capacity, the report said. In terms of power generation, the country's renewable energy generated 2.48 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity in 2021, accounting for 29.7 percent of the total power generation, it said. By the end
Agriculture Secretary William Dar (Photo courtesy ofDA Comms Group) MANILA - It was the turn of Agusan del Sur farmers to benefit from the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RCEF-RFFA) Program. On Tuesday, Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar kicked off the distribution of PHP5,000 unconditional cash grant to 1,844 rice farmers in the Caraga Region province. The beneficiaries equally shared the PHP9.22 million from the RFFA, sourced from the excess tariff collected from imported rice as mandated by the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL). The region will receive a P225.40 million cash grant under RFFA, Dar said. RFFA, with a total fund of PHP7.6 billion, supports rice farmers tilling two hectares and below and are in the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture. "The program is one of the many positive outcomes of the Rice Tariffication Law," Dar said during the event. The DA previously said with the RCEF and the National