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In China, drunks can use app to summon a sober friend

UH-OH. YOU’VE HAD too many drinks. You’re too intoxicated to drive home. But you can’t take a taxi because you don’t want to abandon your car in the bar's car park. What do you do? Reach for your phone. A new category of app called Dai Jia (代駕) - literally "designated driver"- lets you summon…

July 19, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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China builds train loop the size of a country

CHINA BUILT A TRAIN track as big as a country—and they did much of it on shifting sands. The new Xinjiang railway loops around the huge Taklamakan desert, a patch of sand so large it could swallow the countries of the United Kingdom plus the whole of Ireland. It wasn’t just the size of the…

July 19, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

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Rule change means Hongkongers could become astronauts

FIT YOUNG HONG KONG people have been cleared to become astronauts. Mainland China has quietly moved away from its policy of using only military personnel on space missions, it was revealed. The change became apparent after Legislative Councillor Edward Leung asked the Hong Kong government to broker a deal to relax the restriction. Because of…

July 18, 20220Comments ByAnna Tang

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First Americans came from Asia—but one group went home

New data tells the story of how Asians spread to the Americas A GROUP OF ASIANS travelled to Siberia, crossed to Alaska and became the first humans to settle in America – but some of their descendants decided to make the long and perilous journey back to the area which is now China and Russia.…

July 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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One city produces extraordinary number of ‘perfect scores’ in global IB exams

Students from Hong Kong are getting world-beating results in the International Baccalaureate exam, but this doesn't mean it's a wall-to-wall city of nerds - one of the top performers this year is sports champion Xavier Chang. H.C. Lu reports. HONG KONG HAS arguably the world’s best school system for smart children, according to the latest…

July 14, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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Sri Lanka: What you are not being told

THE CURRENT SRI LANKA narrative goes like this. The ruling party made a series of bad decisions about fertilizer, petrol, and a “debt trap” (yes, from a certain country with a red flag), and, as a result, they have been chased out of office by angry citizens. New leaders will have to be found. Many…

July 11, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Statistically, tiny Hong Kong at 25 is top of the world

MOVE OVER, London and New York. The little community of Hong Kong SAR is celebrating its 25th birthday having reached world-class heights in a number of fields, as one of the healthiest, wealthiest, safest places on earth. There's no such thing as a perfect city, so we make no claim of being Utopia --…

June 30, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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One country wins top 31 spots in global science survey

RESEARCHERS WHO gathered data on the fastest-rising science schools in the world found that the top 31 all came from just one country: China. “Out of the top 50 fastest-rising institutions, just 10 were from other countries or regions,” said the researchers at Nature, the world’s top academic science journal. The new study was…

June 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kongers are queuing to buy flats again

(Baker Circle is a large development in Hung Hom with modern shopping precincts at ground level. Image: artist's impression by KPF.) LOOKS LIKE THE old Hong Kong is back to some extent. Three developments of swanky but tiny apartments were put up for sale at the weekend—and long queues of people pounced, battling with outstretched…

June 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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U.S. will stop being a democracy, most Americans say

MOST Republicans and Democrats believe that the United States will cease to be a democracy, according to a new poll by Yahoo News and YouGov. Democrats (55%) and Republicans (53%) now believe it is “likely” that America will “cease to be a democracy in the future”. When people who fit into neither of those two…

June 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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In China, drunks can use app to summon a sober friend

China builds train loop the size of a country

Rule change means Hongkongers could become astronauts

First Americans came from Asia—but one group went home

One city produces extraordinary number of ‘perfect scores’ in global IB exams

Sri Lanka: What you are not being told

Statistically, tiny Hong Kong at 25 is top of the world

One country wins top 31 spots in global science survey

Hong Kongers are queuing to buy flats again

U.S. will stop being a democracy, most Americans say

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