Snowcapped prosperity: China’s winter sports market glides upwards
Each winter for the past three years, Claire Zhou, a teenager from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has counted down the days until she can fly to northern China...
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Top honours for engineers spotlight China’s gains in military technology
Key scientists behind China’s latest stealth fighter and aircraft carrier have been promoted to one of the country’s top scientific academies in recognition of their contributions to advances in military...
Bolsonaro taken to detention facility for posing concrete flight risk
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was under house arrest serving a 27-year prison sentence for masterminding the Jan. 8, 2023, attempted coup d’état, was transferred Saturday to a detention...
Indian airbase on China border is infrastructure upgrade, not a...
India earlier this month inaugurated a high-altitude airbase near its disputed border with China, prompting analysts to suggest the development capped long-term efforts to upgrade infrastructure there rather than posing...
Zelensky running out of time with Trump peace plan on...
The US has proposed a 21-point peace plan for Ukraine. The administration has informed Ukraine that it has until Thanksgiving (November 27) to accept the plan. There is little likelihood...
Sellers hope superstition can sell homes in China’s depressed market
For homeowners in mainland China, selling a property has become so difficult that some are turning to xuanxue, a neo-Taoist philosophy that has morphed into internet slang for any superstitious...
China overhauls civil service rules that kept out chronic disease...
China has loosened its civil service medical rules so that sufferers from three chronic diseases will no longer be barred, a move hailed by campaigners and legal groups as a...
China team simulates large-scale electronic warfare against Musk’s Starlink
When Russian forces rolled into Ukraine in early 2022, one of the first moves by Kyiv was sending a post to Elon Musk on X: Ukraine needs satellite internet. Within...
Israeli strikes across Gaza kill 22 Palestinians, medical and civil...
Israel says it struck targets in Gaza after an “armed terrorist” crossed the so-called yellow line and fired at soldiers. Source link
Boric rebukes Trump's instructions to single out countries endorsing progressive...
Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font strongly rebuked US President Donald Trump’s instructions to American embassies to “take note” of countries whose authorities promote or finance diversity, abortion, and euthanasia policies....
