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Nury Vittachi

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Foreigners at Olympics will be given ‘electric renminbi’

FOREIGN VISITORS TO the Winter Olympics in China will be able to use the new “electric renminbi” to buy things—even if they don’t have a bank account in the country. China’s digital currency is being gently rolled out to the public, local and foreign, in huge hunks of cash before a full launch at a…

January 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

China just built more offshore wind forests than all other nations combined

GENERATING ENERGY? It’s a breeze—literally. China built more offshore wind capacity just in 2021 than the rest of the world managed in total over the past five years, Carbon Brief reported yesterday. “Its 26 gigawatts now accounts for half of the world's 54 gw total,” said Simon Evans, deputy editor of the science publication. It's…

January 26, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Guangdong to overtake Canada, Australia in GDP

GUANGDONG PROVINCE NOW has a GDP of the same size or larger than Australia or Canada--and its growth story has only just begun. China’s workshop region in the south of the country filed Gross Domestic Product figures on Thursday of 12.4 trillion yuan (US$1.95 trillion) for 2021. Different charts put the top-performing places in different…

January 25, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

It's amusing to compare the rapturous headlines from when New Zealand achieved zero covid, not long ago, to today's negative ones for China; This report can be read as text, by scrolling down, or watched as a video, by clicking here. HAVE YOU HEARD what the Chinese are doing now? They are forcing their citizens…

January 24, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

A denounced ‘red’ Zen Master dies a quiet hero for the world

GREAT ZEN MASTER Thich Nhat Hanh has just passed away at the age of 95. The news media is summing him up as “the father of mindfulness”, a spiritual exercise widely adopted in the secular world. But in Asia, and to those of us with long memories, he was much more than that. Thich Nhat…

January 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Media and govt credibility plummeting: global survey

MEDIA CREDIBILITY IS dying at high speed—and trust in liberal governments is following in tandem, according to a new major global survey. Half of all respondents now view governments and media as “divisive forces in society”, said the huge study, which collected data from 36,000 respondents in 28 countries. But public confidence in executive-led governments…

January 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture Videos

The General, the priest, and the young woman

A real-life mystery story from our podcast-style series of tales of ancient Asia Above is a two-minute video telling an amazing true story from the Shang Dynasty period of China's growth, more than 30 centuries ago. Click here to go to our YouTube channel

January 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

‘West should breed babies, build new Hong Kong’

UK RIGHTWINGERS WANT to generate thirty million new British babies to stop any forthcoming global leadership by Chinese people—and convert British seaside towns into “new Hong Kongs” to house them. The British campaigners are joining a US campaign to “breed” their way into maintaining Western dominance on the planet. “Save the West,” said Tom Harwood,…

January 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Prankster scores big with fake “propaganda” card

A YOUNG BRITISH filmmaker in China is being celebrated today after playing a spectacular trick on the anti-China lobby. Curt McArdle, 27, is one of many people who have been labelled “wumao” (meaning “paid propaganda agent”) for daring to have said something positive about China: considered a terrible crime in much of today’s social media/…

January 16, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

US flights banned as HK sacrifices CNY fairs

OMICRON IS AIRBORNE now, forcing scientists in one of the world’s most Covid-proof cities to scramble for new measures. Hong Kong has banned all flights from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France and the Philippines until February 4. Lunar New Year Fairs are all cancelled—a major sacrifice in a community for which the annual…

January 15, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi

Foreigners at Olympics will be given ‘electric renminbi’

China just built more offshore wind forests than all other nations combined

Guangdong to overtake Canada, Australia in GDP

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

A denounced ‘red’ Zen Master dies a quiet hero for the world

Media and govt credibility plummeting: global survey

The General, the priest, and the young woman

‘West should breed babies, build new Hong Kong’

Prankster scores big with fake “propaganda” card

US flights banned as HK sacrifices CNY fairs

Truth at last: Yes, Chinese Uyghurs ARE treated badly

Record-breaking number of deals clinched at China import expo

Mainland China, HK, now helping other nations make clean energy transition