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Nury Vittachi

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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

Opinion

The strange headline that appears every decade

A NEWS REPORT, widely reprinted today, indicates that Iran is almost ready to complete its first nuclear weapon. But the problem is that the same story has been printed many times over the past 38 years, and has always been wrong -- so far. Why does the media not print the background? It's hard to…

April 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

China’s Solomon Islands link: A meme to share

April 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Three systemic issues are harming journalism

(Image above: No western mainstream outlet has examined any possible relationship between their anti-Chinese coverage and attacks on Chinese-looking people in the west. Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash) JOURNALISM IS IN TROUBLE. CNN spent a third of a billion US dollars to start a news channel they admitted they would close just…

April 25, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Boosted Sinovac as strong as mRNA, study shows

THE TWO-DOSE Sinovac program gives a level of protection almost as strong as BioNTech, while adding a booster makes them virtually equal, with the Chinese vaccine slightly stronger among older patients. The results come from a study at Hong Kong University, which including a number of top names in the field, including Gabriel Leung, Benjamin…

April 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi

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

The strange headline that appears every decade

China’s Solomon Islands link: A meme to share

Three systemic issues are harming journalism

Boosted Sinovac as strong as mRNA, study shows

Origins of Chinese civilisation display at Hong Kong Palace Museum

Three Legoland theme parks set to open in China

Hong Kong teacher finds job in UK – at one tenth of her pay