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Technology is game-changer at Beijing’s ‘smart’ Olympics

2022 Winter Games will be the greenest, most eco-friendly ever Robots and automation will keep athletes and visitors safe Viewers will be treated to 5G broadcasting and 8k high-definition China’s technology skills will be visible at multiple levels Hong Kong will need to learn from the event and follow suit CHINESE NEW YEAR will…

January 29, 20220Comments ByHerman Hu

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Under the surface, a very different Hong Kong story

The widely reported narrative that Beijing tried to impose a law to snatch dissidents from Hong Kong in 2019 was never true Peaceful demonstrators quickly fled the protests as they realized something dark, violent, and well-organized lay just below the surface The media simply relayed stories and numbers they were given by one side,…

January 20, 20220Comments ByMichael Edesess

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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

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‘West should breed babies, build new Hong Kong’

UK RIGHTWINGERS WANT to generate thirty million new British babies to stop any forthcoming global leadership by Chinese people—and convert British seaside towns into “new Hong Kongs” to house them. The British campaigners are joining a US campaign to “breed” their way into maintaining Western dominance on the planet. “Save the West,” said Tom Harwood,…

January 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Prankster scores big with fake “propaganda” card

A YOUNG BRITISH filmmaker in China is being celebrated today after playing a spectacular trick on the anti-China lobby. Curt McArdle, 27, is one of many people who have been labelled “wumao” (meaning “paid propaganda agent”) for daring to have said something positive about China: considered a terrible crime in much of today’s social media/…

January 16, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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US flights banned as HK sacrifices CNY fairs

OMICRON IS AIRBORNE now, forcing scientists in one of the world’s most Covid-proof cities to scramble for new measures. Hong Kong has banned all flights from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France and the Philippines until February 4. Lunar New Year Fairs are all cancelled—a major sacrifice in a community for which the annual…

January 15, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Technology is game-changer at Beijing’s ‘smart’ Olympics

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

A denounced ‘red’ Zen Master dies a quiet hero for the world

Under the surface, a very different Hong Kong story

Media and govt credibility plummeting: global survey

‘West should breed babies, build new Hong Kong’

Prankster scores big with fake “propaganda” card

US flights banned as HK sacrifices CNY fairs

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