Rachelle Akuffo
CGTN America
Washington, DC, United States
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Startups revolutionizing fate of used and donated clothing
Leftover auction items get resold in the U.S. or shipped overseas by textile recyclers. Remaining items are processed and shredded for industrial use, like insulation or filler for cushions and couches. → Read More
Prison encourages convicts to cultivate entrepreneurship
With high walls and barbed wire, Uruguay's Punta de Rieles prison looks like any other penitentiary. Inside, it's a different story. Inmates here are encouraged to explore their creative side through music, working and setting up their own companies. → Read More
A conversation with Colombian pop star Carlos Vives
Rachelle Akuffo spoke to Carlos Vives about his 30-year musical career, and his passion to promote peace, arts and even soccer in his country and in Latin America. → Read More
Behind the scene with Carlos Vives
CCTV’s Rachelle Akuffo and the Americas Now team caught up with Latin superstar and multi Grammy award winner Carlos Vives. → Read More
NASA’s growing impact on the private sector
NASA opened up a catalog of 1200 of its patented technologies to commercial startups. → Read More
Tim Unwin on Kenya’s rising middle class
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, some 20 million Kenyans fall into the middle class. → Read More
Global economics analyst Saruhan Hatipoglu on Brazil’s economy
Brazil's brutal recession is deepening with no immediate relief in sight. The country's GDP shrank in the first quarter- though it wasn't as bad as previously thought. → Read More
Director Franco Sacchi on Nigeria’s booming film industry competing globally
Nigeria's booming film industry popularly known as Nollywood isn't just the largest in Africa but the second largest in the world. → Read More
Keeping Score: The business of contact sports
The growing popularity of mixed martial arts is the focus of this edition of Keeping Score. → Read More
Yukon Huang on China’s foreign trade
China's foreign trade took a turn in April with both exports and imports performed weaker. Exports rose a little more than four percent, while imports fell n → Read More
DC’s Union Kitchen helps food entrepenuers collaborate
Union Kitchen, a shared kitchen space in Washington D.C., allows new chefs to collaborate - and learn from seasoned professionals. → Read More
South Asia analyst Michael Kugelman on Afghanistan economy
Michael Kugelman discusses how politics usually inform economics - and how that's painfully obvious in Afghanistan. → Read More
Alibaba’s sales for Q1 up 39 percent
Alibaba's latest earnings indicate Chinese consumers are continuing to spend. China's biggest e-commerce company's logged its highest rate of revenue growth in four quarters. → Read More
Live streaming becoming increasingly popular online
Live streaming is taking the internet by storm. The streaming app Periscope launched just over a year ago and has already hosted over 200 million broadcasts. Fa → Read More
Michelle Drew Rodriguez on US manufacturing industry
The U.S. will eventually have the most competitive manufacturing industry in the world, according to 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index. → Read More
Ankur Patel discusses the upgrade to China & New Zealand’s free trade agreement
Traveling to New Zealand will become easier for Chinese tourists as the visa procedures will be simplified. It was announced during Prime Minister John Key's vi → Read More
Perry Wong on China Inflation Data
A clearer view of where China's economy may be headed this year could emerge Friday, when the first quarter GDP figures come out. If the latest indicators ar → Read More
A conversation with the President of Chile: Michelle Bachelet
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is the country's first female president and has been elected to the top post not once but twice. She was first elected presi → Read More
Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao on Chinese economy
China has shrugged off the recent outlook downgrade on its sovereign credit. Standard & Poor cut it's rating from stable to negative, citing the longer t → Read More
Eric Schiffer on China’s booming mobile payment market
Mobile payment is part of the industry that's getting nuclear-level hot. There's no doubt the sector's biggest player is Alipay. A recent study says that → Read More