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Hong Kong can ‘integrate more deeply’ with growing mainland economy

ONE OF CHINA’S top leaders called on Hong Kong to become more deeply involved with the Chinese Mainland’s steady program of economic development. The financial city on the south coast of the country could “better integrate into national development”, said Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang, during the Two Sessions—an annual government meeting in Beijing. This could certainly…

March 9, 20260Comments ByFriday Writers

Japan election: Recycling the past to ruin the future

Nostalgia for your country's past military adventures is a common tool used by politicians. But when those adventures included the killing of tens of millions of people in neighboring countries and the use of rape as a weapon, that's different. And when you propose reviving that army, that's a serious concern for the world. A…

March 7, 20260Comments ByRichard Cullen

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China breakthrough points the way to 1 nanometer chip production

CHINESE SCIENTISTS just made the world’s smallest, most energy-efficient transistor, with node chips less than 1nm (one nanometer) in size, Science reported. Their new super-miniature memory device opens the path to ultra-high performance computing. We can’t show you a picture of it, as 1nm is invisible to the human eye and even to standard optical…

March 4, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

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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…

February 25, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

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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…

February 24, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

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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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Hong Kong can ‘integrate more deeply’ with growing mainland economy

Japan election: Recycling the past to ruin the future

China breakthrough points the way to 1 nanometer chip production

Scientists in China create chip that bridges optic and wireless systems

Scientists find treasure trove of antibodies in paediatricians’ blood

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

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

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

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

China is lifting its neighbors past western countries in energy tech

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