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A twin-engine plane crash in a residential neighborhood of Gramado, a popular tourist destination in southern Brazil, has claimed the lives of all 10 people on board, including prominent businessman Luiz Claudio Galeazzi and his family, and left 17 injured on the ground. The Piper PA-42-1000 aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Canela on Sunday, hitting the chimney of a house and the second floor of another residence before colliding into a shop. The Civil Defense agency confirmed the fatalities and detailed the sequence of events leading to the tragedy. Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite addressed a…

Chinese company ADM Group has announced a $350 million investment in Pakistan, supported by the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC). The plan includes establishing over 3,000 EV charging stations nationwide, with 1,000 in Sindh, 1,500 in Punjab, and 750 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Additionally, ADM Group will invest $250 million in an EV manufacturing plant and $90 million in charging infrastructure. The new EVs, with a range of up to 300 kilometers per charge, aim to reduce carbon emissions and lessen Pakistan’s dependence on traditional fuels.

BEIJING : Chinese and Pakistani academic achievements in resistant rootstocks for economic forests and grafted and fodder plants were exchanged at the just finished 4th China-Pakistan Tropical Arid Non-Wood Forest Science & Technology Exchange Conference. Over 500 professionals from China and Pakistan attended the conference simultaneously in Zhengzhou and Gwadar, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Saturday. Starting from 2021, in the Belt and Road Engineering Research Center for Tropical Arid Non-wood Forest, professionals from the Chinese Society of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, China Overseas Ports Holding Company Limited, Yulin Holding Company Limited, University of Karachi,…

China’s software developers have exceeded 9.4 million, according to China Media Group, based on data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). This number accounts for approximately one-third of the global total, making China the largest software developer base in the world, says Li Xiaodong, Vice President of the Internet Society of China and Director of the Fuxi Institution. “China’s proportion of software developers globally surpasses its share of internet users, demonstrating the strength of our digital talent base and its pivotal role in driving the future of the digital economy,” Li said. China’s contributions to open-source ecosystems…

As a key step to implement the outcomes of the 2024 FOCAC Summit, the 4th China-Africa Future Leaders Dialogue was held in Hubei Province under the theme “Partners Working Hand in Hand for Modernization.” Youth representatives from 14 African countries visited Yichang and Wuhan, engaging in meaningful exchanges with their Chinese counterparts on modernization. Three young African delegates share their insights and takeaways on how these experiences could contribute to the development of their home countries. 1.      Youth from Africa and China play pivotal roles in fostering bilateral exchanges. (6:20) 2.      China and African countries share significant similarities in development…

As the cultivation of crops capable of adapting to climate change is becoming increasingly important, Chinese scientists have identified, in a breakthrough study, a novel approach that markedly enhances crop productivity in the face of high-temperature adversity. A two-degree Celsius increase in global temperatures is projected to significantly amplify average crop losses by 3 to 13 percent, highlighting the urgent need for more heat-resistant varieties to address future food security challenges. The researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have employed an innovative gene-editing tool to insert a heat-shock element into a…

President Xi Jinping’s visit to Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has charted the course for Macao in the practice of “One Country, Two Systems,” according to an article published on Saturday by the Hong Kong and Macao Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and China’s State Council Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Macao from Wednesday to Friday for celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Macao’s return to the motherland, the inauguration of the sixth-term government of the…

RAWALPINDI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi has granted interim bail to Bushra Bibi, the wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) founder Imran Khan, in 32 cases related to the November 26 protest. ATC Special Judge Amjad Ali Shah approved her bail until January 13, allowing her temporary relief as legal proceedings continue. The cases against Bushra were registered in various police stations across Rawalpindi, Attock, and Chakwal. During the hearing, she was present in the courtroom and submitted the required surety bonds to secure her bail. After the bail was approved, Bushra left the court premises, with her next appearance…

A team of researchers from the University of Toronto has announced the discovery of “negative time,” a concept that challenges traditional understandings of time in quantum mechanics. While the findings have generated significant interest, they have also sparked scepticism among some scientific community members. In a series of experiments conducted in the university’s basement laboratory, the team, led by Daniela Angulo and Aephraim Steinberg, claims to have confirmed the existence of negative time—a phenomenon previously dismissed as an illusion caused by wave interactions with matter. The “negative time” concept emerged from the team’s investigation into the interaction between light and…

Senior Supreme Court judge Justice Mansoor Ali Shah has expressed reservations over the involvement of intelligence agencies in the process of judicial appointments. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Judicial Commission, ahead of the commission’s meeting, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah argued that a defined mechanism for appointing judges to constitutional benches must be established within the Judicial Commission’s rules. Justice Shah highlighted that the formation of constitutional benches in the Supreme Court and the Sindh High Court lacked clearly defined criteria. “The majority in the Judicial Commission already comprises members from the executive. Allowing intelligence agencies to…