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Lagos, NIGERIA: The world's largest atmospheric tower has left China to Nigeria for the Aliko Dangote's refinery  complex in Lagos. China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) has disclosed that it is shipping to Dangote Refinery in Lekki Lagos, the world’s largest atmospheric tower. The tower has left a wharf in Ningbo, in Zhejiang Province in China’s north eats, Sinopec said. The journey may take up to a month. The atmospheric crude tower, which helps in processing heavy crude oils, will be installed at the world’s biggest single-train facility - Nigeria's Dangote Refinery . “ On July 29, the world's largest atmospheric tower built by Sinopec slowly left a Wharf in Ningbo. “Following the Maritime SilkRoad, it will travel to Nigeria and be installed at the world’s biggest single-train facility - Nigeria's Dangote Refinery,” Sinopec said in a tweet on Monday with pictures of the equipment attached. World's largest atmospheric towe...

Johannesburg, S.AFRICA: President Cyril Ramaphosa is the “last hope” for South Africa, but his government must turn incentive policies into laws to secure more Chinese investment, a senior Chinese diplomat told Reuters. China is the country’s largest trading partner and has pledged more investment than any other country since Ramaphosa embarked on a drive last year to attract $100 billion of new investment to lift the economy out of a slump. While it has attracted some $55 billion in total pledges - including from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well - the drive has so far done little to ease crippling unemployment or boost economic growth. “President Cyril Ramaphosa is the last hope of this country,”  Lin Songtian, China’s ambassador to South Africa, told Reuters. But while African nations have seen a boom in infrastructure development over the past decade, he said projects proposed by the South African authorities had lacked feasibility studi...

Newly translated into English, Albert Einstein’s private travel diaries from the 1920s reveal that he was racist in his early life, especially toward Chinese people. The diaries were written between October 1922 and March 1923. In one entry Einstein wrote that the  “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” Speaking about the “abundance of offspring” and the “fecundity” of the Chinese, he continued: “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.” Einstein also derided the people of Ceylon, which is now known as Sri Lanka. In Ceylon, he wrote, the locals “live in great filth and considerable stench at ground level,” before adding they “do little and need little. The simple economic cycle of life.” Einstein also gave his thou...

Macau, CHINA: The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a South African man at the local airport when he was trying to smuggle 4.5 kg of cocaine mixed with cotton padding in clothes packed in his hand luggage on Tuesday, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference on Wednesday. The cocaine seized, which weighs 4.5 kilogrammes, has an estimated street value of 12 million patacas(nearly $1.5 million) Choi said. According to Choi, the 47-year-old suspect is surnamed Van Vuuren. He told the police that he is a businessman. The police were tipped off recently that a drug-trafficking suspect was going to try to smuggle drugs to Macau on a flight into the city. On July 11, Van Vuuren initially took a plane from Brazil to Ethiopia. Then he flew to Manila and arrived in Macau at noon on Tuesday, according to Choi. The police believe that the suspect’s final drug-trafficking destination was Hong Kong, Choi added. PJ officers stationed at the airport saw a passenger...