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Scientists in China create chip that bridges optic and wireless systems

SCIENTISTS IN CHINA found a way to transmit huge amounts of data instantly over distances at world record speeds, a paper published in Nature magazine said this week. They tested it by streaming a mega-high resolution 8k movie to 86 channels at once. Their success moves the world closer to the fabled 6G, not due…

2 days ago0Comments ByNury Vittachi

Scientists find treasure trove of antibodies in paediatricians’ blood

BREAKING NEWS: Paediatricians don’t catch colds. So scientists decided to investigate their blood—and found a “treasure trove” of 56 antibodies, it was revealed today. These will be developed to create treatments to help everyone fight respiratory diseases, including severe ones that can kill small children and older people. Hui Zhai and his team at the…

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China, Brazil, Germany, become Guardians of the High Seas

CHINA, BRAZIL, AND several other countries this week became legal guardians of the creatures of the High Seas. Leave that giant squid alone! But the United States and Russia declined to sign to join them. After 20 years of legal tinkering, the United Nations this weekend launched can international agreement to protect marine life—and the…

January 19, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Japan to China: ‘Sell us gear to make weapons to use against you’

“SELL US WEAPONS parts we need to make missiles and drones to use against you.” A bizarre argument is running in East Asia. Japan’s war-thirsty new leader Sanae Takaichi announced her country would remilitarize and threatened to go to war with China. Then came an “oops” moment. Takaichi seemed to have not realized that to…

January 13, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China actions likely caused steep fall in US, Canada opioid deaths: scientists

BREAKING NEWS: The number of opioid deaths in the US and Canada fell dramatically as the Chinese government took action to make life difficult for international drug labs, scientists discovered. Deaths were rising to huge numbers before “the trend began to sharply reverse in mid-2023, dropping the annual rate of fentanyl overdose deaths by over…

January 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

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I worked at a law firm on the Chinese mainland – here’s what I learned

A young law student from Hong Kong took a working journey deep into mainland China’s Shanxi province. Tang Chun-man found extraordinary reminders of the country’s dramatic history – but he also found himself taking an internal journey to gain an appreciation of two legal systems, different in many ways, but both grounded in the universal…

December 10, 20250Comments ByTang Chun-man

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China is lifting its neighbors past western countries in energy tech

WEST’S REAL CRISIS IS ENERGY, NOT POLITICS THE NATIONS of southeast Asia are about to follow China in overtaking the United States and Europe in modern electrification, a new study showed. China already overtook the OECD, a club of mostly rich western nations, in 2015, but the rest of the region is following suit,…

October 3, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China’s No.2 leader brings moon samples and message of peace to United Nations

CHINA BROUGHT A GIFT to the United Nations’ 80th General Assembly session yesterday: soil and rocks from "the dark side of the moon”. It was powerfully symbolic. The country was as poor as the least developed African nations in the 1960s, when the super-rich US was making its pioneering voyages to the moon—but China has…

October 3, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China’s ‘dragon man’ skull forces re-think of man’s journey from Africa

SCIENTISTS ARE IN SHOCK today after the discovery of a million-year-old early human skull in China. The finding of the Homo longi (“dragon man”) skull in China will force a re-examination of long-held beliefs about the journey of modern humanity across the world, from its roots in the Australopithicine proto-humans which originated from Africa.…

October 3, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

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7 things worth knowing about China’s National Day on Oct 1

1. National Day is not a day – it’s a week. It starts on National Day, 1st of October, but the State Council adds another six days of holiday to turn it into Golden Week in the Mainland China. 2. Many people wrongly believe that the first National Day was Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the…

October 3, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi