A bus carrying high school students plunged into a reservoir in southwest China on Tuesday, as days of torrential rain triggered flood warnings across large parts of the country and disrupted the first day of national college exams. In the central city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus epidemic first erupted in December, a record-breaking 426 millimetres...
If China, as it has pledged, eliminates absolute poverty by the end of this year, it will be an unprecedented achievement in the world. There could be many reasons behind its imminent success, but the top reason, according to me, is strong and consistent leadership. Addressing a Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee panel discussion...
Singapore clinched three of the top five private equity and venture capital deals struck in the region in the first quarter amid markedly slower economic activity across South-east Asia due to the pandemic. There were 141 such deals worth US$1.4 billion (S$1.95 billion) in the region in the three months to March 31, Ernst & Young...
Back on 18th May, American content creator Dustin Pfundheller published a video on his YouTube account titled “Other Side of the Truth”, praising Malaysia’s effort in their fight against Covid-19. Unfortunately, it was revealed that the video, titled “How Malaysia Did The Impossible”, was blocked by Facebook. According to Pfundheller, the clip promotes “false, misleading and deceptive...
Sina Corporation, the operator of social media platform Weibo, said late Monday that a company controlled by its chairman offered to take it private, making it the latest US-listed Chinese firm to consider a privatisation offer as rising tensions between the world’s two biggest economies have some companies rethinking their American listings. The Beijing-headquartered company said...
A landslide buried nine people on Wednesday in China's Hubei province, the People's Daily newspaper reported, after some of the heaviest rain in decades brought floods that have killed more than 100 people. The landslide occured in Huangmei County in the early hours and efforts were being made to rescue the people, the newspaper said. From June...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, freedom to travel around the world has been restricted due to travel bans. US citizens used to enjoy tremendous freedom, but a new passport power analysis has deduced that they’re now on par with developing countries. Citizenship firm Henley and Partners said this was due to “poor handling of the pandemic”. Source: Passport...
A father and his 4-year-old daughter have completed a 71-day bicycle journey — 4,139 kilometres — to reach Lhasa, Tibet, becoming well-known online and receiving lots of support from netizens. Dou Haobei and his daughter Dou Dou had set out from Dongguan, Guangdong province on April 2 and reached their destination in the Tibet autonomous region...
A Chinese family that was stranded in the Seychelles for five months because of the coronavirus pandemic is finally back home. Rex Yang Zhouhu and his mother, sister and three-year-old nephew are under a 14-day self-quarantine in a Shanghai hotel after flying from Ethiopia last Tuesday. The 33-year-old Chongqing native became a social media star in China...
The prevalence of a genetic mutation of the novel coronavirus will not hamper testing for the virus and may have little impact on the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines under development, a senior expert said. The mutation, called G614, which is now the dominant form in the global Covid-19 pandemic, is more likely to infect people but...
