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Nury Vittachi

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Clever pay-out scheme has China oldsters getting vaxxed

MEDICAL SCIENTISTS ACROSS China have launched a creative win-win-win scheme which is finally getting older generation hold-outs to take the Covid vaccine. Health officials are buying insurance for oldsters, who get up to 500,000 rmb from insurance companies if the vaccine harms them. Traditionally, elderly people in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other places…

June 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

A list of songs used by torturers

A HUGE NIGHTMARE has descended on Hong Kong. Yes, a new Y.U.U. song. Last year, the first song promoting the Y.U.U. shoppers’ loyalty card was played on a loop in thousands of shops for months, causing utter misery for shoppers and, surely, a major retail crisis. The new Y.U.U. song ("YUU to me") is 80…

June 6, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

THE MYTH OF THE “Tiananmen Square massacre” is arguably the most successful disinformation campaign of modern times, according to western and eastern sources—so much so that proud psychological warfare specialists recently used it to ADVERTISE their news manipulation skills. We’ll get to that below. As everyone knows by now, there have always been two dramatically…

June 4, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Community with most confidence in their style of democracy is the Chinese

There are 14 remarkable findings about China, Hong Kong, the US, free speech and elections, in the latest edition of the world's largest survey of democratic attitudes, which has just been released CHINESE PEOPLE FEEL better democratically represented by their system of governance than citizens of any other nation feel about their own, a major…

May 31, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Everything is being weaponised in a ‘disinformation war’

Leaders of Japan and other nations are warning of a need to be aware of a hidden battlefield in the media and social media The west has an unshakeable lead in hybrid warfare, leaving other regions struggling to be heard Three new books point to a host of other areas that are being or…

May 29, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Explorers reach ancient forest deep underground

AN ANCIENT FOREST lost in time has been discovered deep underground in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Species of plants and animals unknown to science are likely to be found, experts said. Explorers lowered themselves on ropes more than 190 meters (630 ft) to reach the forest through an opening in the surface, itself hidden…

May 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

New ‘quantum phone’ puts East Asia ahead in unhackable comms

SCIENTISTS IN CHINA have created a quantum smartphone that cannot be hacked. The phone comes with a built-in module and a special SIM card that can encrypt and decipher voice calls using “quantum key distribution”, Science Daily reported on Tuesday. A number of countries have been working on similar devices, but China's looks like being…

May 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Vaccine patent shock as Biden demands China exclusion

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION says it will veto a global plan to allow countries to ignore patents and make their own Covid-19 vaccines unless the Chinese are specifically excluded, Bloomberg reported. The sudden move has jolted top health workers who were hoping that the long-promised patent waiver would enable them to make vaccines available to everyone,…

May 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

UK steps away from pledge to protect human rights

THE UK IS ABOUT TO withdraw partially or entirely from a key European convention that protects human rights. The move is being pushed by Conservative minister Dominic Raab, a passionate critic of human rights protection in Hong Kong and mainland China. His bill will remove the requirement for British courts to take account of judgments…

May 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

US solar industry in sudden crisis, as China accusations fly

THE US SOLAR POWER industry's activities have ground to a sudden halt as the US Commerce Department started looking for possible China links. More than 300 large scale solar panel implementations across America have been frozen—and this includes some forest-sized projects. “Tens of billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of jobs are at risk,”…

May 6, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi

Clever pay-out scheme has China oldsters getting vaxxed

A list of songs used by torturers

How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

Community with most confidence in their style of democracy is the Chinese

Everything is being weaponised in a ‘disinformation war’

Explorers reach ancient forest deep underground

New ‘quantum phone’ puts East Asia ahead in unhackable comms

Vaccine patent shock as Biden demands China exclusion

UK steps away from pledge to protect human rights

US solar industry in sudden crisis, as China accusations fly

Starmer meets Xi today, hopes to rebuild UK’s relationship

Treasures from 800-year-old sunken vessel exhibited in Hong Kong

At the Great Wall, I learned how the Chinese dealt with their enemies