CGTN correspondent Paulo Cabral travelled to the city of Aracaju in Brazil’s Northeast, the country’s poorest region, to check on a sanitation and drainage project that’s being partially financed by the New Development Bank, the Brics Bank.
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China has lifted a temporary ban on imports of Brazilian beef, imposed in February, after an isolated case of mad cow disease was identified.
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The 28th Ibero-American Summit is underway in the Dominican Republic.
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While an operation is underway to expel the miners and deliver medical aid to the affected communities, a Rio de Janeiro startup is helping to provide safe drinking water to them.
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Despite heightened political tensions and high tariffs, trade between China and the U.S. remained strong in 2022. Trade in goods hit a record highs after the pandemic restrictions were lifted in China this year.
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The death toll from Saturday’s 6.5-magnitude in Ecuador is now at least 15 people, while hundreds mored suffered injuries.
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How do you transfer power from Brazil’s hydroelectric plants to cities in need that are often kilometers away? Meet the technicians behind use of ultra-high voltage lines that criss-cross the nation.
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Twenty years ago this week, the U.S. launched a punishing military air assault on Iraq.
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Prices in the U.S. are still rising at a fast pace according to government figures released on Tuesday.
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The fallout continues following the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by police officers in Memphis earlier this year.
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The U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is set to host the Oscar Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles this Sunday.
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Millions of Americans have received the COVID-19 vaccine with no out-of-pocket costs, as the U.S. government footed the bill throughout the pandemic. But that’s likely to change when the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies expire in May.
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Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw testified before a U.S. Senate committee about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that spilled dangerous chemicals into the community.
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But efforts to bridge the digital gender gap are being made. CGTN’s Jody Jacobs reports.
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The move to bring more manufacturing jobs to the U.S. received a boost earlier this year after Ford Motor Company announced that it would be building a new battery plant in the state of Michigan.
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The head of the U.S. central bank appeared before lawmakers this Tuesday to try to explain why the economy is so perplexing right now.
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In Venezuela, the majority of household expenses are taken care of by women, even though they earn less than men.
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For many it’s a food that is simply hard to get enough of — chocolate. But that delicacy is facing multiple threats, by both climate change and human.
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Egg prices were 70 percent higher in January than they were the year before. A big reason, the avian flu which doesn’t seem to be going away.
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The U.S. has a shortage of doctors, and it’s expected to get worse over the next decade.
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The world’s top basketball players were in Salt Lake City, Utah, this past weekend for the NBA’s All-Star Game.
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The unusual weather is impacting regional business owners and residents alike, with environmental experts warning the lack of snow is a sign of climate change.
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Brazil’s carnival season is ramping up across the country, with nights of street celebrations planned for many big cities.
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Colombians saw a significant hike in the monthly minimum wage this year.
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Are gun control laws in the United States biased against Black Americans?
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A female bus driver in Colombia is breaking barriers within the industry. Some say she is a welcome-addition to the male-dominated profession in the country.
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Scams amounting to an estimated 60 billion dollars or more, stolen from U.S. COVID-19 relief programs, were laid bare in a congressional inquiry on Wednesday.
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Samsung has released its latest line of mobile devices.
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After nearly seven weeks of unrest in Peru, shortages of basic products, including increasingly expensive fuel and food, are mounting.
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One of the newest lawmakers in the U.S. Congress has started another week of fending off more accusations that he’s lied about much of his past. Republican George Santos was elected in November’s midterm elections.
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U.S. border officials are on the lookout for a new type of contraband at the U.S. southern border: eggs.
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Some of the biggest names in tech are cutting tens of thousands of jobs as they pay the price for expansion too fast for revenues to keep up.
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CGTN covers all things Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival.
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As the annual World Economic Forum opens this Monday amid warnings of a global recession this year, the International Monetary Fund added another layer of pessimism.
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If you are in college, you’ve probably already heard of ChatGPT – the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that is generating university-level papers. Some professors say they can’t tell the difference between their students’ work and the bot’s. It’s raising concerns of cheating and plagiarism – […]
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2022 saw an increase in artificial intelligence globally. What does that mean for 2023? CGTN explores how AI will impact the future.
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The U.S. inflation crisis is easing up, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is concerned about the mismatch between low unemployment and record numbers of unfilled vacancies.
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Visitors to China will no longer be required to undergo lengthy quarantines. It comes after China officially downgraded its COVID-19 management policy. And that shift in strategy is expected to have wider business implications around the world. CGTN’s Dan Williams reports.
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The world’s largest personal electronics show, CES, wrapped up this past weekend.
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The nationwide death toll is rising — with lives lost across at least nine states.
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2022 was the year the world got a rude awakening by something that had largely disappeared from many countries: inflation.
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Nowhere more so than on Wall Street which has been wrestling with inflation, rising interest rates and the collapse of the latest asset class – cryptocurrency.
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Raising that benchmark rate by half a percentage point instead of three quarters, as the Fed has done four times this year may look tiny.
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Despite multiple interest rate hikes in the U.S., the job market continues to show signs of strength. Total employment increased by 263,000 in November, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7%. Find out more.
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As new independent breweries enter the market, they’re doing so with sustainability in mind.
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Bargain hunters spent more than $9.1 billion online this year—a new record.
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U.S. investors remain wary of investing in Chinese companies that trade on New York’s stock exchanges.
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The concept of purchasing pre-owned goods has been growing in popularity.
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Colombia’s currency depreciated 1.6% on Tuesday and closed at a record low below 5,000 against the dollar. Over the past month, the peso has lost 8% of its value. Find out what affected the value of peso.
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