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Nury Vittachi

329 articles published

China, Europe, want to turn our cars into energy storage devices in 2027

IMAGINE A WORLD where each family has a powerful magic battery that provides energy for their transport between home and work every day. The SAME magic battery is used by the city’s electricity utility company to provide light and heat for the wider community every evening. The family’s energy costs fall, because the electricity firm…

2 days ago0Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

West’s ‘shadow world government’ meets in Washington DC

MEMBERS OF THE WEST’S "SHADOW WORLD GOVERNMENT" are heading home today after meeting behind closed doors to discuss their vision of the future of the world. Intelligence chiefs, heads of state, and top business leaders met in private at the Salamander Washington DC hotel for the Bilderberg Group meeting, which took place from April 9…

April 15, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News News

Hong Kong stays top of financial world

HONG KONG STAYED AHEAD of the US as the world’s top spot for share market launches, new data showed yesterday. In just three months ending yesterday, 37 companies raised US$13.26 billion on the Hong Kong stock exchange, LSEG Data and Analytics of London revealed. This puts the southern Chinese city number one in the world…

April 1, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Hong Kong News

Idea: Existing tech can be used to ease Hong Kongers’ time spent in Chinese mainland

The ‘iAM Smart’ platform, which serves as a real-name database, can be used to make it easier for Hong Kong people to spend time in the Chinese Mainland PROMINENT HONG KONG businessman Herman Hu Shao-ming last week suggested that the city’s “iAM Smart” ID-card linked real name database could be integrated with the national-level identity…

March 19, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Culture Features

A lawyer’s journey: from 1980s China to a top spot at the United Nations

SOME POSITIVE NEWS! While the news is full of war, a nice story of international bridge-building just emerged, unnoticed. A girl called Lingling was born to the Zhang family in Beijing in 1981. She grew up and went into the law. In 2011, she went to study in Hong Kong, which has a reputation as…

March 16, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Culture

Chinese legal system growing fast, with continuous refinements

THE LEGAL SYSTEM in China is maturing fast. Although the law in the country has a very long history, the system has recently been evolving rapidly in many ways, such as in dealing with international cases, using digital technology, and fostering the rise of women judges. The Supreme Court of China this week celebrated female…

March 12, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features News

China has opposed the idea of killer robots but others are pressing ahead

BREAKING NEWS: A BATTLE is running right now between the US Department of War and defenders of top AI firm Anthropic on a terrifying plan to create an army of autonomous killer robots. Two hours ago, Secretary for War Pete Hegseth issued a statement blasting the company and ordering all government-linked departments to cancel contracts…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Opinion

Behind the China EV advance, there’s a network of issues to consider

O THE IRONY. As the illegal US-Israel attack on Iran sent petrol prices soaring, there was celebration in China this week as BYD launched an electric car battery that can be “refueled” for 400 km in just five minutes—in other words, as quickly as a petrol car. Final barrier gone. Given the bargain prices of…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

12 statements on the illegality of the US-Israel attack on Iran

THE WEST IS IN TURMOIL. Countries’ top legal minds are declaring the US-Israel attack on Iran to be illegal, as China did. But Israel-friendly western politicians including Starmer, von der Leyen, Albanese, and others are desperately blocking their ears as they try to justify actual war crimes. Here's what the specialists say: . 1. The…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news

Ships are pretending to be Chinese to get through the Straits of Hormuz

THE "I'M TURNING CHINESE" viral trend on TikTok is being used by ships trapped in the Gulf by the US-Israel war on Iran, reports said today. “At least 10 ships over the past week have altered their destination signal to read ‘Chinese Owner’, ‘All Chinese Crew’ or ‘Chinese Crew Onboard’,” the Financial Times reported,…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi