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SYDNEY bailey bow uggs on sale , Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Australia's largest airline Qantas announced a partnership with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Friday, that will see Chinese travellers able to buy flights from Qantas directly on the associated site.


The partnership to create a strategic relationship between the two companies gives the world-renowned Australian airline access to over 507 million active mobile users of the Alibaba platform in China, with over 75 percent of those users aged 35 years old or younger.


The chief executive of Qantas, Gareth Evans, lauded the partnership ugg bailey bow boots ireland , and said it will make the process of coming to Australia easier for the many Chinese tourists who would like to, and do travel there every year.


"With travel between China and Australia booming ... (this) is an exciting opportunity for us to have a connection with younger Chinese travellers, who increasingly turn to mobile applications," Evans said.


Evans said his company plans to develop its presence in China even further, with the airline already operating more than 130 return flights between Australia and China every week.


With many of the likely users of this new platform being millennials ugg classic boots ireland , this relationship is set to take advantage of a shift in travellers that was identified by the managing director of Tourism Australia, John O'Sullivan, who said in a recent interview with Xinhua that the nature of Chinese tourism to Australia is changing.


"What we are seeing now is an amazing change within the Chinese tourists in Australia. We are seeing a far more sophisticated visitor coming to Australia than was coming probably two or three years ago," O'Sullivan said.


According to figures from the Australian Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport ugg classic mini ireland , and Regional Economics, airline passenger traffic between Australia and China was up 28.7 percent in 2016.


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HOUSTON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- New Mexico Lottery officials said Wednesday that less money will be transferred to the state's lottery scholarship program this year.


The lottery announced Wednesday that 37.8 million U.S. dollars in proceeds earned during the 2017 fiscal year will be going to the scholarship fund, declining 8.5 million U.S. dollars from the previous year.


Lottery CEO David Barden told local media the opportunities for generating more revenue have been hampered by an increase in contract fees as well as a requirement to funnel 30 percent of proceeds to the scholarship fund.


The scholarships help pay tuition for about 26,000 students at public universities and colleges in the state. The amount of financial aid available through the program has been declining since lottery revenues have not kept pace with increases in tuition and student enrollment.


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JOHANNESBURG, June 16 (Xinhua) -- African countries have pledged to enhance cooperation to safeguard peace and security in the continent, and promote economic growth ugg classic short ireland , prosperity and gender parity.


At the closing ceremony of the 25th African Union (AU) summit Tuesday, AU Chairperson Robert Mugabe said the meeting had achieved a lot addressing political, economic and social issues.


"The troubling state of peace and security in some parts of the continent was given priority in our discussions," said Mugabe, who is also Zimbabwean president. "We are resolved to continue pressing for dialogue where there are intra-state conflicts."


The AU also issued a statement against terrorism. "We condemn in strongest terms acts of terrorism being perpetrated by militant extremists in several parts of Africa."


"We resolved to confront terrorism collectively in order to defeat it completely and rid our continent of what is currently a menace to Africa ugg classic short sale ," Mugabe said.


He also praised the body for launching the continental free trade area negotiations.


"We resolved to expedite the conclusion of the negotiations to speed up intra-African trade and commercial exchanges leading to continental economic integration and development," the chairman said.


AU leaders also agreed to implement the flagship projects of agenda 2063 to bring about economic growth and prosperity in Africa. They include free trade area, high-speed trains, the African center for disease control and the Pan African University.


Under the summit's theme -- "Year of women empowerment and development toward agenda 2063," Mugabe said Africa had reaffirmed the need to fast track gender parity.


"We resolved and committed ourselves to abolish all ills based on cultural and religious practices including early child marriages and gender based violence ugg classic tall ireland ," Mugabe said.


These words were echoed by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in her closing remarks.


"Recognizing that our continent will not realize its development potential, if women continue to be the face of poverty, we have agreed to take concrete measures to empower women and give them full dignity including confining the hand held hoe to the museum," Sirleaf said.


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