Shijiazhuang station gets its bustle back By ZHANG YU in Shijiazhuang | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-10 09:21 Share CLOSE Passengers board a train from Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, to Yueyang, Hunan province, on Monday night. The station resumed outbound services on Monday. GENG HUI/FOR CHINA DAILY
Passenger departures resume after 34-day halt due to virus outbreak
Shijiazhuang Railway Station finally returned to bustling normality on Monday after seeing no passenger departures for 34 days due to a COVID-19 outbreak that struck Hebei s provincial capital this year.
About 9,000 passengers had boarded trains at the station by Tuesday afternoon, it said.
Yu Cheng happily boarded a high-speed train around 8 am on Tuesday, heading home to Wuxi, Jiangsu province, after an extended business trip.
New Zealand Rugby seek input from fans on future of provincial competition
9 Feb, 2021 03:14 AM
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Auckland V Canterbury in a Mitre10 Cup rugby match. Photo / Photosport
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By: Tom Vinicombe for RugbyPass.
For the second time in the space of a year, New Zealand Rugby have sought input from fans concerning the future of the game.
Greater access to sports around the world has put pressure on NZR to produce a better quality product for rugby fans. That, coupled with the financial hit taken due to the global coronavirus pandemic, has seen the New Zealand union take a very modern-day approach to planning the sport s future.
Old vege shop to house new Waipukurau library
9 Feb, 2021 12:41 AM
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CHBDC chief executive Monique Davidson, group manager customer community and partnerships Doug Tate, Mayor Alex Walker and Deputy Mayor Kelly Annand in front of the old Buck s building.
CHBDC chief executive Monique Davidson, group manager customer community and partnerships Doug Tate, Mayor Alex Walker and Deputy Mayor Kelly Annand in front of the old Buck s building.
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Central Hawke s Bay District Council is set to open a regional digital business hub, while at the same time finding a place the Waipukurau library service can call home for at least the next five years, thanks to funding secured through the Provincial Growth Fund.
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The Eastern Cape provincial government says it is working on getting more black business into the automotive sector.
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Time to activate provincial HECs
Opinion
February 8, 2021
In view of some recent decisions and policies of the HEC, and keeping in mind the post-18th Amendment educational scene in the country, perhaps it is the right time to start devolving higher education management to provinces and activate provincial HECs. This suggestion may shock some well-wishers of higher education in Pakistan.
If you look at the broader picture, it will make perfect sense. Twenty years ago, when the government of General Musharraf formed a committee to transform the erstwhile University Grants Commission (UGC) into the Higher Education Commission, technocrats such as Shams Lakha and Dr Atta-ur-Rahman sprang into action. They were amply supported by international donors including the World Bank. Throughout the nine years of Gen Musharraf’s dictatorship, the HEC was projected as a success story. Hardly anyone can dispute that the HEC has done some good work over two decades but that is not the whole s