WELLINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand should be more active in participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation, otherwise New Zealand may miss one of the largest multilateral economic projects of this century, said an expert on Tuesday. Simon Draper, executive director of Asia New Zealand Foundation, who attended the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in 2017, is set to leave for the second version of the event to be held in Beijing later this month, when the country's Minister of Trade and Export Growth David Parker is expected to lead a business delegation to the highly-regarded forum.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia is in strong support of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and believes that BRI will bring progress to countries participating in BRI cooperation, said Tan Kok Wai, Malaysia's special envoy to China. When the BRI was proposed in 2013, Malaysia was among the first countries to give a positive response, and the incumbent government led by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has continued the support for the initiative, said Tan, who was appointed as the special envoy last year and is now also the chairman of Malaysia China Business Council.
Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith speaks during an interview with Xinhua in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 10, 2019. The upcoming second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation will bring closer cooperation among all participating countries, said Khieu Kanharith in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.
BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing swift and Beijing cuckoo should be "ambassadors" of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to represent the importance of the ecological and environmental cooperation on regional and global scales, proposed Terry Townshend, a British environmental law expert and conservationist. These birds, well-known and considered "ordinary" in China, migrate along the Belt and Road from East Asia to spend winters in southern Africa and fly back to Beijing in spring year after year.
