CAPE TOWN -- TikTok has overtaken Instagram to secure the second place among the "Big Five" social media platforms in South Africa, challenging Facebook's dominance in the country.

开普敦——TikTok已超过Instagram，在南非“五大”社交媒体平台中排名第二，挑战了Facebook在该国的主导地位。

The documentary, which took three years to produce, looks into the water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018, the huge negative impact of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil on global water supplies and the alarming rate of water depletion caused by extensive farming in the midwestern United States.

Moreover, the company invested 15 million rand in neighborhood development every year and provided funds and critical anti-pandemic supplies valued at about 3.5 million rand to Cape Town and Northern Cape to help local governments fight the COVID-19 outbreak.

com Inc, US technology company and world's largest online retailer, has announced plans to set up its first data center in Cape Town, South Africa, next year, while Chinese global tech company, Huawei, plans to set up two cloud data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town, also in South Africa.

Between the coming November and February next year, it will start operating seasonal flights between Hong Kong and Cape Town of South Africa.

Hisense established its African head office in Cape Town and two sub offices in Johannesburg and Durban.

In 2013, it opened another plant in Atlantis, about 50 km from the city of Cape Town.

In 2013, it opened another plant in Atlantis, about 50 kilometers from the city of Cape Town.

Mid Continent's problems have directly affected SEMO Box Co in Cape Girardeau, Missouri about 60 miles northeast.

The aircraft, with 22 Chinese passengers onboard, flew from Hong Kong to Cape Town International Airport, and then flew to Antarctica.

Commodities trader and miner Glencore replaced China's Sinopec as the buyer of Chevron's South African and Botswana assets in October, including a 100,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Cape Town, a lubricants plant in Durban as well as 820 petrol stations and other oil storage facilities.

The trip to Namibia by the Moutai executives follows a similar trip to Cape Town, South Africa last week.

Sinopec already owns part of a Saudi refinery at the Red Sea, although a recent attempt to buy a Chevron refinery in South Africa's Cape Town was thwarted by Glencore.

The corporation has also recently bought Chevron Corp's South African assets and its subsidiary in Botswana-an attempt to secure the Chinese company's first major refinery in Africa, including a 100,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery in Cape Town, a lubricants plant in Durban and 820 petrol stations and other oil storage facilities.

When container ships avoid the Suez Canal and instead navigate around the southwestern tip of Africa — the Cape of Good Hope — it increases sailing costs, extends shipping duration and creates corresponding delays in delivery schedules.

To celebrate International Chinese Language Day, "The Way of Type — Modernisation of Chinese Typography" exhibition opened at the Welgemeend Function and Conference Venue in Cape Town, South Africa on April 19.

Tang Chang'an, deputy consul-general of China in Cape Town, Ma Yue, chairman of the Chinese Language Teachers Association South Africa and director of the Chinese language program at the University of Cape Town, Wu Changhong, executive chairman of the Chinese Language Teachers Association South Africa, Zeng Liren, dean of the Confucius Institute for Chinese Medicine at the University of Western Cape and Ferdi B Dick, a local South African artist and designer, attended the opening ceremony.

Tang expressed congratulations on the holding of this exhibition on behalf of Consul-General You Wenze and the Consulate General in Cape Town, and wished the exhibition a complete success, adding this year is an important year for the establishment and development of diplomatic relations between China and South Africa.

He also said the Chinese Language Teachers Association and the "Chinese Bridge" Club in Cape Town, as a major cultural interaction mechanism of China and South Africa, have played a vital role in spreading Chinese culture and promoting exchanges and friendship.

Maersk, the shipping and logistics business of A. P. Moller-Maersk Group, redirected 15 vessels by Sunday where the company deemed the delay of sailing around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa equal to the current delay of sailing to Suez and queuing.

The world's number one line A. P. Moller Maersk said it was considering diverting vessels around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, according to a Reuters report.

Michael Power, strategist at Ninety One, a global asset management business based in London and Cape Town, South Africa, said China will make the transition by transforming its economy beyond recognition.

Wang Lan, a manager at the information department of the Shanghai Shipping Exchange, said as many container vessels are opting for the longer route around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, this choice has led to a decrease in both vessel and shipping container turnover efficiency, resulting in a short-term shortage of shipping capacity.

In the event that the Far East to Northwest Europe route and the Far East to Mediterranean route are compelled to take a detour around the Cape of Good Hope, the sea travel distances will experience an increase of 3,200 nautical miles (5,926.4 kilometers) and 6,400 nautical miles, respectively, said Jin Xiaomin, chairman of Zhejiang Kingston Supply Chain Group Co Ltd, a Yiwu, Zhejiang province-based exporter.

When cargo ships avoid the Suez Canal and instead navigate around the southwestern tip of Africa — the Cape of Good Hope — it implies increased sailing costs, extended shipping durations and corresponding delays in delivery times.

Due to the necessity of circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope for shipments heading toward Europe and the Mediterranean, current average one-way journeys to Europe are extended by 10 days.

"If a vessel transporting Chinese automobiles opts to circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope on its way to Europe, the duration of the journey will be extended by two weeks.

Maersk Line has decided that due to safety considerations, all vessels previously paused and due to sail through the region, will now be rerouted around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope, the Danish company said in a statement on Tuesday.

For instance, in De Aar, a town in the northern Cape province of South Africa, Chinese company Longyuan Power has partnered with local firms to establish a wind power project that has been in operation since 2017, with an installed capacity of nearly 245 megawatts.

By comparison, the current CAPE for the US stock market is 31.8 and that for India is 37.6.

Born Sept 5, 1927, in Cape May, New Jersey, Volcker was educated at Princeton, Harvard and the London School of Economics.