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Added on the 07/01/2022 07:25:42 - Copyright : AFP EN
From his chair in the middle of a pile of pineapples, Jean-Xavier Satola supervises cutting and packaging, as Benin -- Africa's fourth-biggest exporter of the fruit -- starts trading again after an eight-month, self-imposed absence.
Airline China Eastern said that there had been fatalities after one of its passenger jets carrying 132 people crashed in southern China on Monday, with the cause of the crash "still under investigation". FRANCE 24's Fabian Kretschmer reports from Beijing, China.
"Taiwan deeply regrets that the Ortega government has decided to disregard this longstanding and close friendship", says foreign ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou after Nicaragua announced it was breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China.
The "blind box" toys, first popularised in Japan, have fixated China in recent years, driving a booming second-hand market and decorating the desks of white-collar workers across the country. "Blind box" toys give buyers a sense of mystery, showing a range of possible figures inside, and occasionally giving out a rare and unadvertised figure when opened. Wang Zhaoxue, an 18-year-old music student is one of legions of young Chinese hooked on snaffling up the toys - from pop art-inspired figurines to mini-archaeological treasures, which have a similar level of collectibility as baseball cards.
The crypto-art craze sweeps into Beijing as curators open one of the world's first exhibitions dedicated to blockchain art featuring coveted 'NFTs' or 'non-fungible tokens'.
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