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Thailand’s Nattakan Chantam is about to become the Thai woman to be feature in the Women’s T20 Cricket Challenge. Nattakan will compete in the United Arab Emirates Women’s T20 Cricket Challenge. The  Women’s T20 Cricket Challenge is being held Nov 4 to 9, the organizing Indian cricket board (BCCI) said. The three-team cricket tournament is played alongside the men’s Indian Premier League. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is also hoping to launch a full-fledged women’s IPL in future. Opening cricket batter Nattakan, who was Thailand’s top scorer in this year’s Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia, will represent the Trailblazers. They will be captained by India’s Smriti Mandhana, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said in a statement. All-rounders Deandra Dottin (West Indies); and Salma Khatun (Bangladesh); and left-arm England spinner Sophie Ecclestone are Trailblazers’ other three overseas players. India cricket captain Harmanpreet Kaur will lead the Supernovas. She won … [Read more...] about Nattakan Chantam to Be First Thai Women in T20 Cricket Challenge

Video Player Close BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade maintained upward momentum in the first two months of 2021, with exports posting strong performance, official data showed Sunday. The country's total imports and exports of goods expanded 32.2 percent year on year to 5.44 trillion yuan (about 838.16 billion U.S. dollars) in the January-February period, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC). The growth rate is in a sharp contrast with a virus-induced slump of 9.7 percent during the same period a year earlier. The substantial increase in foreign trade in the first two months was partly due to a low base last year, said GAC spokesperson Li Kuiwen. "Yet even compared with the same period in 2018 and 2019, China's foreign trade in the January-February period this year logged growth of about 20 percent." Notably, export growth soared to 50.1 percent while imports rose 14.5 percent in yuan terms. The fact that people chose to stay put … [Read more...] about Economic Watch: China’s foreign trade sustains growth momentum in first two months with exports soaring

Premier Li Keqiang has underlined the importance of harnessing the foundation of China's manufacturing sector and strengthening new growth engines to create more jobs and unleash the potential of domestic demand. Li's remarks came as he took part in a panel discussion in Beijing with National People's Congress deputies from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Saturday morning. Guangxi elected Li as an NPC deputy for the region in 2018. He also joined a group discussion with some members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The premier underscored that the country still faces a challenging domestic and external environment. He also highlighted the importance of coordinating efforts in COVID-19 containment and socioeconomic growth while implementing the new development philosophy and fostering a new development paradigm. Li reiterated the need to ensure stability on six fronts, including employment, the financial sector, … [Read more...] about Premier puts emphasis on new growth engines

Srongpol Chantharueang remembers his parents telling him as a boy always to protect the local wetland forest when he grew up. They told him that the ecosystem would be important for his life and that of his community. “I didn’t understand what they meant at the time,” he told Mongabay via a video call. “I didn’t understand what the true value of the wetland forest was.” Srongpol chairs the Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group, which partnered with international nonprofits, civil society organizations and local academic institutions to share evidence of the importance of the wetland forest for biodiversity and the local community A village leader, Srongpol lives in Ban Boon Rueang, a town in Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai province. Nestled between the Doi Yao mountain range and the lower reaches of the Ing River, a 260-kilometer (160-mile) tributary of the Mekong, Ban Boon Rueang is an unassuming town with an agrarian lifestyle that goes back generations. But in recent … [Read more...] about Chiang Rai Community Continues the Fight to Save its Wetland Forest

close Video Senate passes $1.9T stimulus bill, House Democrats plan final approval Tuesday FOX News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest developments on 'FOX News Live' EXCLUSIVE - An outside group that backs Republican causes is going up in 11 congressional districts controlled by House Democrats with ads targeting the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package being pushed by President Biden and congressional Democrats. The American Action Network (AAN) on Sunday is expanding an issue advocacy campaign it originally launched last month that takes aim at what it argues is House Speaker "Nancy Pelosi's liberal stimulus." BIDEN'S COVID RELIEF PACKAGE SLAMMED IN NEW ADS BY PRO-GOP GROUP The ads, shared first with Fox News, will be seen in House districts with Democrats who are potentially vulnerable in next year's midterm elections, when Republicans hope to win back the majority in the chamber they lost in the 2018 … [Read more...] about Pro-GOP group targets House Democrats over $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill