In a meeting of a Special Cabinet Committee constituted as an oversight body for procurement of the COVID-19 vaccine, it was decided that Pakistan will follow the practice of most of the countries to pre-book COVID-19 vaccine based on preliminary results in order to ensure the timely availability of the vaccines.
The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature. According to the theory, which was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the weak were diminished and their cultures delimited while the strong grew in power and cultural influence over the weak. Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest,”
1-1-21 The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. The pact connects 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4 trillion. It has the potential to lift 30 million people out of extreme poverty, but achieving its full potential will depend on putting in place significant policy reforms and trade facilitation measures.
Ukraine has signed an agreement to buy 1.8 million doses of China’s Sinovac COVID19 vaccine which are expected to arrive in the country soon, the presidential office said on Wed.
12-30-20 China-EU bilateral investment treaty BIT is a comprehensive, balanced and high-level deal marked by concrete rules and institutional openness, China’s Ministry of Commerce said at a briefing after the two sides announced Wed they had completed BIT negotiations on schedule.
The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research or KSTAR has taken a major leap forward in the development of a working nuclear fusion reactor. Unlocking the power of nuclear fusion has been the dream of scientists since the early 20th century but has proven a tough puzzle to crack. Nuclear fusion, which works by combining two atomic nuclei into a larger nucleus to release energy, promises to unleash more energy than it consumes.
The first 3 million doses of vaccine received in Turkey will be shipped from Beijing to Istanbul via Turkish Airlines on the 30th local time. The vaccine will first arrive at Istanbul airport and then be shipped to Ankara. Turkey has earlier signed an agreement to purchase a total of 50 million doses of Chinese vaccine.
1-13-21 Turkey approved emergence use of COVID19 vaccine CoronaVac developed by Chinese company Sinovac.
China’s first independently-developed 3.2-meter three-segment solid rocket motor for civil space completed its first ground test in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province on Wednesday, marking China’s largest and the most powerful segment-type solid rocket engine tested to date. The segmental solid rocket buster is a solid fuel rocket engine divided into several sections and each section has its own shell, adiabatic structure and propellant charge column.
The engine can be applied to large & heavy rockets to meet the needs of space equipment, manned moon landing & space exploration.
The Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link (Chinese: 屯門至赤鱲角連接路, abbreviated as TM–CLKL) is a road project in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It comprises two elements: the “Northern Connection” and the “Southern Connection”. The Northern Connection comprises of an undersea tunnel crossing the Urmston Road, linking Tuen Mun to the “Boundary Crossing Facilities” (BCF), an artificial peninsula connected to Hong Kong International Airport. The Southern Connection, officially named Shun Long Road (Chinese: 順朗路), comprises viaducts linking the BCF to North Lantau Highway on Lantau Island.
The construction of the link has helped facilitate travel between the Northwest New Territories (Tuen Mun and Yuen Long Districts) and the Hong Kong International Airport and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (Hong Kong Port).
The tunnel portion is a two-lane dual carriageway approximately 5 kilometres long. The dual sub-sea tunnels were bored up to 55 metres below sea level using the Tuen Mun – Chek Lap Kok TBM, the world’s largest tunnel boring machine.
Originally scheduled for opening in 2018, completion of the link had been delayed for two years. It opened to traffic on 27 December 2020.
