How tai chi, a variant of kung fu, has taken root in Rwanda and Kigali residents are loving it
For many Rwandans, tai chi is more than just movement – it is a personal journey. Emile Ndagijimana, a tai chi teacher, shared a deeply rooted story of passion that began in childhood with Xinhua. “I started practicing kung fu at the age of nine,” he recalled.
Fly-on-the-wall: Florida real estate in US is a covert corridor for Chinese, Russian spies as it’s home to 21 military installations and world’s busiest spaceport
The ex-spies blended in nicely among the engineers, techies, and tanned retirees from law enforcement and government-adjacent jobs. They’d adapted to life along the so-called Space Coast, a palm-dotted shoreline roughly 70 miles end to end, from Titusville down through Cocoa Beach and on past the guarded gates of Patrick Space Force Base, where NASA’s old infrastructure still hums, even as the privatized rocket era now sets the tempo.
China’s says its recently launched 15th Five-Year Plan guarantees it steady, long-term growth of modernisation
As a new driver of future development, new quality productive forces should be cultivated in line with local conditions. It is necessary to leverage local resource endowments, industrial foundations and research capabilities to selectively foster emerging industries, new business models and new growth drivers.
Chinese ‘gravity-fed’ irrigation technology spurs hopes of three crop seasons in Busia, Siaya in Lake Victoria Basin
According to data from Kenya’s National Irrigation Authority (NIA), the project has directly benefited more than 12,500 farming households in Siaya and Busia counties, securing irrigation for 11,000 acres (about 4,451.5 hectares) of agricultural land and providing a strong guarantee for local food security.
Inside China’s robot boot camp where robots are trained to performs tasks as race to feed hungry AI heats up
Ye Yangsheng, co-founder of Shanghai-based SEER Robotics, already noted at the 2025 Zhangjiang Embodied AI Developer Conference in May that humanoid robots require massive amounts of data for training, but collecting data in real-world environments is extremely costly.
China queries US 301 trade probe in 60 economies it says seriously disrupts international economic and trade order
China, a founding member of the International Labour Organization, has ratified 28 international labour conventions and established a comprehensive system of labour laws and regulations to prevent and combat forced labour, the spokesperson said.
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan: China eyes resilient domestic market less vulnerable to whims of global trade cycles and foreign tariffs
With the adoption of China’s new development blueprint for the next five years, the world is seeing far more than a national development roadmap – it is embracing inclusive growth, technological advancement and win-win cooperation that transcend borders. The global community is grappling with growing division and conflicts – from...
China on cusp of New Age as ruling Communist Party’s 15th Five-Year Plan parley features 6G technology, brain computer interfaces
Citing his experience in China, Dennis Munene Mwaniki, executive director of the China-Africa Centre at the Africa Policy Institute in Kenya, said that China has become a leading nation in AI development and integration.
China reconfigures its technology around exports, investment and consumption as pistons of its economic engine
The country is now poised to place big bets on technology. In late February, Beijing’s Haidian District – known as China’s Silicon Valley – pledged over 9 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) for industrial innovation this year. Leading AI model firm Zhipu AI and chip designer Moore Threads have been early bets for the district government – prime examples of China’s strategy to back up hard tech for the long haul.
President Xi Jinping says his regime is charting new course for China’s growth with quality productive forces
Artificial intelligence (AI), as a representative of the new quality productive forces and a standout in China’s sci-tech advancements, is now driving upgrading and innovation across industries – a process Xi has closely followed with keen interest.
