AN ANCIENT FOREST lost in time has been discovered deep underground in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Species of plants and animals unknown to science are likely to be found, experts said.
Explorers lowered themselves on ropes more than 190 meters (630 ft) to reach the forest through an opening in the surface, itself hidden…
SCIENTISTS IN CHINA have created a quantum smartphone that cannot be hacked. The phone comes with a built-in module and a special SIM card that can encrypt and decipher voice calls using “quantum key distribution”, Science Daily reported on Tuesday. A number of countries have been working on similar devices, but China's looks like being…
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION says it will veto a global plan to allow countries to ignore patents and make their own Covid-19 vaccines unless the Chinese are specifically excluded, Bloomberg reported.
The sudden move has jolted top health workers who were hoping that the long-promised patent waiver would enable them to make vaccines available to everyone,…
THE UK IS ABOUT TO withdraw partially or entirely from a key European convention that protects human rights. The move is being pushed by Conservative minister Dominic Raab, a passionate critic of human rights protection in Hong Kong and mainland China.
His bill will remove the requirement for British courts to take account of judgments…
THE US SOLAR POWER industry's activities have ground to a sudden halt as the US Commerce Department started looking for possible China links. More than 300 large scale solar panel implementations across America have been frozen—and this includes some forest-sized projects.
“Tens of billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of jobs are at risk,”…
A NEWS REPORT, widely reprinted today, indicates that Iran is almost ready to complete its first nuclear weapon. But the problem is that the same story has been printed many times over the past 38 years, and has always been wrong -- so far. Why does the media not print the background? It's hard to…
(Image above: No western mainstream outlet has examined any possible relationship between their anti-Chinese coverage and attacks on Chinese-looking people in the west. Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash)
JOURNALISM IS IN TROUBLE. CNN spent a third of a billion US dollars to start a news channel they admitted they would close just…
THE TWO-DOSE Sinovac program gives a level of protection almost as strong as BioNTech, while adding a booster makes them virtually equal, with the Chinese vaccine slightly stronger among older patients.
The results come from a study at Hong Kong University, which including a number of top names in the field, including Gabriel Leung, Benjamin…
SIX NEW NUCLEAR reactors are to be built in China, it was revealed today. The ambitious plan is to help the country meet its targets to wean itself off coal.
The new reactors will be on the coastal provinces, including Guangdong, Shandong and Fujian. China's first nuclear plant was in Daya Bay in Guangdong in…