China s Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, has started promoting zero waste tours among tour guides and the public.
A training session was held Tuesday for tour guides who should encourage visitors to participate in garbage sorting and recycling during their tours.
The Palace Museum launched a zero waste program in January 2020 to work toward the goal of minimizing the amount of waste that would go through landfills or incineration.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday rejected the idea of mandatory vaccination and would instead rely on promoting the benefits of immunization to counter the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a visit to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Merkel said the government could gain trust by advertising vaccination. The goal was to educate citizens and turn them into advertisers, ambassadors of vaccination, she added.
In order to manage the rising number of infections caused by the Delta variant, a total of 85 percent of Germans between the ages of 12 and 59 and 90 percent of those over 60 would need to be vaccinated, according to Merkel. Germany was still a long way from these vaccination rates.
The Bangladeshi government has announced five packages of 32 billion taka (some 372 million U.S. dollars) to help low-income groups affected by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the announcement of the support packages in a statement here on Tuesday.
According to the statement from the Prime Minister s Office, low-income people including day-laborers, transport workers, small traders and water transport workers who have been hit hard by the ongoing restrictions imposed due to the rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths will be supported through the packages.
To curb the virus transmission, Bangladesh on July 1 entered a strict one-week COVID-19 lockdown that has subsequently been extended till July 14 and army personnel have been deployed to patrol alongside civilian forces to maintain law and order.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology has published a report that urged Chinese internet companies to step up efforts for mobile data security and to curb data monopoly.
Countries worldwide will leverage digital economy to drive growth of the next industrial revolution, the academy said in the report.
There are more than 3.5 million mobile apps in the Chinese market. These have been distributed or downloaded via third-party app stores in China more than 1.4 trillion times.
Given such staggering numbers, protecting data security is of significance, especially as digital economy has gained fresh momentum through deep penetration into various industries and from activities relating to the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said.
In October, Nguyen, a man in Vietnam who has the inherited blood disorder thalassemia, successfully booked an online appointment with a medical expert in China.
The man, who only wanted to be known by his surname, constantly feels tired, is short of breath and appears pale.
An online platform enabled him to make an appointment with an expert working at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Thalassemia is common in Asia, the Mediterranean area and the Middle East. In Asia, it affects mostly people from southern China and countries in the southeast of the continent.