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Winter Games are chance to thaw icy relationship

AFTER 14 YEARS, Beijing is playing host to the Olympic Games again. While most Olympic cities in the world suffered staggering financial losses, or were plagued by bribery and other charges, China has spared no effort in demonstrating to the world its heart-warming hospitality, distinctive culture, and extraordinary capability for organizing huge events. At…

February 11, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

News

Bitcoin ‘heist’ suspect Heather Morgan lived in Hong Kong

Cash from huge, unsolved crypto theft has finally been found, investigators say One time Hong Kong resident juggled careers, tried to be rap star The ultimate techy couple hid in the glare of publicity, her face on billboards Theft was from Hong Kong company – and so was part of the laundering operation A GAWKY…

February 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Athletes are new target for Aussie cartoonist Badiucao

PARTICIPANTS IN THE Winter Olympics are the latest target for Australia-based Badiucao, Western media’s favorite anti-China cartoonist. His latest “jokes” show sports people committing murder, spreading the coronavirus and so on. As with much criticism of China, the artist claims to oppose only the Chinese government but in practice attacks Chinese people in general. …

February 8, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Facebook may have peaked as Chinese app rises: analysts

NOW THAT THE DUST has settled, the money has been counted: and it’s a shocker. Facebook lost about US$250 billion in a single day last week, the biggest one-day drop of any company in the history of listed companies. That’s a quarter of a trillion US dollars. The main culprit? A Chinese app called TikTok.…

February 8, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Culture

The millennia-old medicine that is still used today

One thing that the east and the west have shared for several hundred years is ginseng, a medicinal plant found in both China and Canada (although discovered more than a millennia apart). Today, both varieties are popular around the world. Out of 44 academic studies, 29 found evidence of positive effects. Dr Guo Ping reports…

February 7, 20220Comments ByGuo Ping

Videos

How NYT helps Biden team shape public opinion

AS COVID DEATHS in the US approach one million, the Biden administration, helped by the New York Times, is working on "conditioning Americas" to move on from the pandemic for political, strategic reasons. See the video report below, or click here to go to a text report. A

February 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Canada unrest condemned as ‘double standards’ rule

Image: Two men enter an Ottawa apartment block where people have complained about anti-vax protesters. In the second image, you see them lighting combustible blocks, and in the third image they tape the door handles to prevent escape; the pictures were shared by resident Matias Munoz on Twitter, attracting the attention of the city's police.…

February 7, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

News

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

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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 skier came from “the ancient cradle of skiing”

CHINESE SKIER Dinigeer Yilamujiang was born in a region that historians think was one of the sites where skiing originated. While ancient remains of skis have been found in Russia dating back 6,000 years, a similarly ancient cave painting showing human figures sliding on small platforms on slopes over a herd of animals was…

February 5, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Winter Games are chance to thaw icy relationship

Bitcoin ‘heist’ suspect Heather Morgan lived in Hong Kong

Athletes are new target for Aussie cartoonist Badiucao

The millennia-old medicine that is still used today

How NYT helps Biden team shape public opinion

Canada unrest condemned as ‘double standards’ rule

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

Stunning party capped with Beatle’s hope for shared future

Uyghur skier came from “the ancient cradle of skiing”

Hong Kong quietly becomes major tennis hub for the world

3-parent baby case led to one of the oddest reviews in HK legal history

This child has three parents: so who is his mother?