Many developing countries, inspired by China's success, have followed China's lead by developing mid- to long-term strategies, with countries like Poland, Ethiopia and Tanzania having even invited Chinese institutions to assist in their planning consultations, Yin Jun, a researcher at Peking Univers...
How many countries in the world in 2025? UPDATED JANUARY 2025: If you ask how many countries in the world are there in 2024. Well, the answer is that technically speaking there are 197 countries in the world. From a travel perspective, you could argue there are 215 countries. I’ve vis...
There are six major regional railway companies, known collectively as Japan Railways (JR) Group, plus many private local operators. For Japan train times try world.jorudan.co.jp/mln/en/ or japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route. Japan rail map. Tokyo metro website (with map): www.tok...
South Africa's BRICS ambassador, Anil Sooklal, has said as many as40 countrieshave expressed interest in joining BRICS. At the 2023 BRICS Summit, six countries wereinvited to become BRICS members: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. All but Argentina ...
Large-scale modes of climate variability, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, and Indian Ocean Dipole, show significant regional correlations with seasonal weather conditions, and are routinely forecast by meteorologi
Local, regional & suburban trains In virtually all countries, you can just hop on any local, regional or suburban train at any time, and show your Interrail pass to the conductor if and when asked. Easy! Pass-friendly countries Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, ...
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
Types of Airports: Small, Regional and Ridiculously Big Most of us think AIRPORT, not airport, when we hear the term. We imagine massive sites covering hundreds of acres and filled with hangars, terminals, control towers and parking garages. In reality, many airports don't fit this descript...
Fighting has erupted again in Ethiopia, hobbling aid distribution in Tigray. People are dying and food and medicines are not getting through. “We’re back to square one,” says Michael Dunford, regional director for eastern Africa at the World Food Programme. There is now“virtually no access...
Meanwhile, Hainan is an important ecological province in China, of which the area of nature reserves accounts for 77.22% of the province’s total area. To alleviate the negative impact of excessive fertilizer application on the regional ecological environment, the local government issued the “...