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Nury Vittachi

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NYT supports push to condition US citizens for one million pandemic deaths

WHEN WILL THE number of US Covid deaths reach the tragic figure of one million? We’ve done the maths and can give you an estimate date. But first a puzzle: As the number of deaths reached milestones like 100,000, the New York Times went big on the story. In May 2020, a huge number…

February 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Stunning party capped with Beatle’s hope for shared future

THE BREATHTAKING OPENING ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympics was capped with a sneaky touch of genius – the playing of John Lennon’s Imagine. The theme of the spring awakening was created by performers using rods to create a giant field of grass; picture by Xinhua via the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee Movie director Zhang Yimou…

February 6, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Uyghur story podcast traced back to CIA man

OOPS! THE US STATE Department’s latest attempt to vilify the Chinese tripped up today. An advertising campaign was launched to publicize Weghur Voices, billed as “the first podcast entirely about the Uyghur Diaspora”. Although apparently from humble origins from a pair of podcasters in France, they mysteriously have the cash to place their show on…

February 3, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

West’s bid to subvert others is no longer secret: study

Destabilization activities becoming more evident, book says Mistakes made in Hong Kong are being repeated on larger scale Countries can "only be liberal democracies or authoritarian dictatorships" AMERICA’S OVERT AND COVERT actions to subvert other communities while claiming to spread liberal democracy are likely becoming apparent to people around the world, a new study…

January 31, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

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

Nury Vittachi

NYT supports push to condition US citizens for one million pandemic deaths

Stunning party capped with Beatle’s hope for shared future

Uyghur story podcast traced back to CIA man

West’s bid to subvert others is no longer secret: study

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

FAQ: Is Hong Kong’s ‘Friday’ news project a commie plot from Beijing?

Hong Kong now has world’s top insurance penetration rate

Space: a new business frontier is opening up over our heads