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Joy as China’s endangered ‘smiling dolphin’ seen growing

THE SMILING DOLPHINS are back! This critically endangered marine mammal is breeding in China’s legendary Yangtze river, new studies say. Scientists are cautiously optimistic that the tiny group of finless porpoises (江豚), has grown slightly, reversing a decades-long shrinkage in its numbers. The tiny group of finless porpoises has grown in Yangtze River in…

June 14, 20230Comments ByH.C. Lu

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Secret global empire: First whistleblower’s last interview

THE UNITED STATES is still running a covert global empire, said Daniel Ellsberg, known as the “father of whistleblowing”. And we are “on the edge of blowing up the world over Crimea or Taiwan or Bakhmut”, he warned. The U.S. has a long history of creating needless conflicts for its own advantage, and it is…

June 12, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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US expert: Chip war hits ordinary Chinese, not PLA

THE US BAN on provision of powerful computer chip equipment to China is not really aimed at the Chinese military, a top defence expert revealed. It is an attack on the development of China. Only a fraction of one per cent of the chips are used by the People’s Liberation Army, said Jon Bateman, a…

May 18, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Britain must not join US war with China: McDonald

BRITAIN "SHOULD NOT make an enemy of China”, a top British foreign policy expert said this week. The country should part ways with America if it starts a conflict in East Asia, said Simon McDonald, former head of the Foreign Office, in an interview with New Statesman. “This, for me, would be a break point…

May 16, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Social channels give alternative to media misinformation

A FORMER BBC reporter tried to politicize the tragic recent fire in Beijing by claiming that it was being covered up – there was no press coverage or videos or chat posts, Vivian Wu announced on Twitter. Except people in China are quite smart now. They quickly found lots of references to the fire in…

April 26, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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World’s richest man lifted by Chinese consumers

A NEW FACE just grabbed the title of Richest Person on the Planet—and he was lifted into that spot by Mrs Chinese Taitai. Taitai is a Hong Kong term for middle or upper class ladies, roughly equivalent to the western term “ladies who lunch”. And the man is Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH—who has suddenly…

April 26, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Taiwan has been invaded, but not by who you think

Taiwan has been invaded – and this is not clickbait. The Chinese island really has been invaded: by the United States. An invasion is when troops from one country get their boots on and go violate agreements in another country. And Greater China is one country. The One China principle has been accepted for decades,…

April 26, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong is pilot-testing govt-issued digital money

HONG KONG IS QUIETLY making deep connections to both Mainland China and the wider world to secure its future. The city is: Testing next-generation Chinese government digital currency for use in cross-border payments; Gathering mainland currency to a level of almost one trillion renminbi; Issuing bonds for China’s stand-out performers, such as Shenzhen and Hainan…

April 18, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China’s universities set to lead the world: Harvard professor

THE UNIVERSITIES OF Greater China will lead the world of education in the coming century, if they can continue to collaborate internationally, a top Harvard professor said yesterday at a forum organized by Our Hong Kong Foundation. The concept of modern universities began in Germany, but that country was overtaken by the United States in…

April 17, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Bolivia warns ‘anti-democratic’ US off its lithium mountain

THE LEADER OF Bolivia said it didn't want interference in its lithium deals from the destabilizers of democracy – the United States. “We don't want our lithium to be in the [U.S. military] Southern Command's crosshairs, nor do we want it to be a reason for destabilizing democratically elected governments or foreign harassment,” said Bolivian…

March 27, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Joy as China’s endangered ‘smiling dolphin’ seen growing

Secret global empire: First whistleblower’s last interview

US expert: Chip war hits ordinary Chinese, not PLA

Britain must not join US war with China: McDonald

Social channels give alternative to media misinformation

World’s richest man lifted by Chinese consumers

Taiwan has been invaded, but not by who you think

Hong Kong is pilot-testing govt-issued digital money

China’s universities set to lead the world: Harvard professor

Bolivia warns ‘anti-democratic’ US off its lithium mountain

Starmer meets Xi today, hopes to rebuild UK’s relationship

Treasures from 800-year-old sunken vessel exhibited in Hong Kong

At the Great Wall, I learned how the Chinese dealt with their enemies