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Nov 8, 2021
WATCH | Let’s Go to China: Amazing Chinese herbs
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Nov 8, 2021
Condé Nast Traveller lists Kingston, Jamaica among ‘best ho...
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Oct 26, 2021
Premier Montserratian literary festival AFW returns this November
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Oct 7, 2021
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Nov 26, 2021
WATCH | Natural beauty of ‘dual Olympic city’
With around 70 days to go until the #Beijing2022 Winter #Olympics, let’s take a tour of Beijing with Bing DwenDwen and Shuey RhonRhon. Produced by Xinhua Global Service
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CHN
Nov 8, 2021
WATCH | Let’s Go to China: Amazing Chinese herbs
In ancient Chinese fairy tales, Shennong, who was known as the forefather of Chinese agriculture, tasted hundreds of herbs in order to understand the medicinal properties of them. Today, traditional…
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JM
Nov 8, 2021
Condé Nast Traveller lists Kingston, Jamaica among ‘best holiday destinations’ for 2022
Respected British luxury travel magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, has listed Jamaica’s capital Kingston as one of the ‘best holiday destinations’ for 2022. CN Traveller, in a feature published last Thursday (November…
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MSR
Oct 26, 2021
Premier Montserratian literary festival AFW returns this November
Montserrat’s Alliouagana Festival of the Word is back for its 13th staging this November. The festival, set to be a blend of online and offline events, has been scheduled for…
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CHN
Oct 7, 2021
Chinese ambassador shares seven buzz phrases to showcase fast-changing China
Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang on Wednesday shared with Americans seven buzz phrases that are currently popular in China to illustrate what is going on in his…
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JM
Oct 3, 2021
Remembering the Black abolitionists of slavery in Yorkshire
“Cunning better than strong” is a Jamaican proverb; a message of survival and resistance that urges us to use our brain rather than our brawn to overcome oppressors. It’s a proverb that…
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ETH
Sep 27, 2021
Celebrating Ethiopia’s Meskel Festival (Finding of the True Cross)
—By Yodit Hylton, Honorary Consul for Ethiopia in Jamaica Ethiopia is the only country in the world that celebrates the Meskel Festival as a national holiday. The word “Meskel” in…
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USA
Sep 15, 2021
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle feature on Time 100 influencer list
(Reuters) Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Wednesday (September 15) graced the cover of Time magazine’s annual 100 most influential people in the world issue. The list also includes singers Billie Eilish and Britney Spears, and Olympic gymnast…
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Sep 14, 2021
JFDF nominated for Caribbean’s ‘Best Culinary Festival’ award
Organisers of the Jamaica Food and Drink Festival (JFDF) are calling on patrons to vote, vote, vote, as the annual foodie event recently picked up a nomination for the Caribbean’s Best Culinary Festival Award.
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ETH
Sep 13, 2021
Celebrating Ethiopian New Year 2014, Enkutatash
Ethiopian New Year, Enkutatash in the native Amharic language, is celebrated on the 1st of Maskaram in the Ethiopian calendar (September 11 or 12 during a leap year), unlike the Gregorian calendar, which is widely used in the western world today.
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CHN
Sep 9, 2021
New finds at Sanxingdui Ruins show creativity of ancient China
More than 500 pieces of relics have been discovered in recent months at the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, with a complete gold mask dating back…
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Sep 7, 2021
Americans rage but South African designer stands by fashionable ‘rope necktie’
A South African fashion stylist continues to face backlash for a necktie design that thousands of social media commenters say resembles a ‘noose’. Despite the strong reaction, designer Daniel Ngobeni,…