After 3 years, Japan revises Tunisia travel advisory

Japanese authorities have revised a three-year-old travel advisory issued for Tunisia in 2015 following a terrorist attack that left three Japanese tourists dead, according to Tunisia’s Foreign Ministry. “Japanese authorities have decided to revise their longstanding travel warning on Tunisia,” the ministry said in a Tuesday statement. The warning was first issued by Japan in 2015 following a terrorist attack on Tunis’s Bardo Museum that left 21 people — including three Japanese tourists — dead. Three months later, another attack on a crowed beach in Tunisia’s coastal city of Sousse left 38…

Tunisia expects chances from China to boost employment

Tunisia sees significant potential for cooperation with China to ease the alarming unemployment in the North African country, a Tunisia senior official said in a recent interview with Xinhua. Tunisia will learn from China to boost employment, especially for the young people, Faouzi Abderrahmane, the minister of Vocational Training and Employment, told Xinhua. According to Faouzi, the Tunisian unemployment rate has reached as high as 15.3 percent, an equivalent of 628,000. “The cooperation between Tunisia and China could obviously develop in the fields of entrepreneurship, sciences, technology and trade,” the…