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Historians find toothbrush, eleven centuries old

SMILE PLEASE! Archeologists have found toothbrushes more than a thousand years old – and they are remarkably similar to modern ones. They had the same shape, although were made of bone, not plastic. And instead of the nylon brushes of today’s equivalents, the ancient ones had hog bristles. There were different varieties, just like today.…

May 4, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

China’s Solomon Islands link: A meme to share

April 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

THE CHINESE BANNED slavery this week. This puts the country further ahead of the United States in the legal protection of workers. The world’s most populous country signed up to two more international conventions against forced labor. This means China has now signed up to six out of eight rights declarations protecting workers of…

April 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

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Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

LADIES, WOULD YOU consider marrying a younger man? Yes please, say Hong Kong women. Thousands of them have been going north into Mainland China to find younger males to wed. The border closures have halted the process, but demographers expect it to restart before the end of the year. The bride-older-than-groom trend, rare across…

March 30, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

A SERIES OF QUIET innovations has led to the creation of an extraordinary milestone: the world’s first true Digital Court system. You file a lawsuit, fill in the forms, present evidence, and get the legal ball rolling – and then get out of bed, because you are still in your pyjamas. Anxious to do away…

March 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

It's amusing to compare the rapturous headlines from when New Zealand achieved zero covid, not long ago, to today's negative ones for China; This report can be read as text, by scrolling down, or watched as a video, by clicking here. HAVE YOU HEARD what the Chinese are doing now? They are forcing their citizens…

January 24, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

No ‘Little Lamb Diplomacy’ from China

FOR 109 YEARS, since the Opium War in 1840, China has suffered foreign invasions, semi-colonialisation, extreme poverty, and demonisation. We toughed them out. With the founding of the new China in 1949, we drove out the last colonialists from our land. Since then no country has ever dared to invade us again. Rising from the…

January 19, 20220Comments ByC. K. Yeung

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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

Historians find toothbrush, eleven centuries old

China’s Solomon Islands link: A meme to share

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

No ‘Little Lamb Diplomacy’ from China

Media and govt credibility plummeting: global survey

‘West should breed babies, build new Hong Kong’

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