May 17 2024
After nearly four years of construction, China’s longest underwater highway tunnel is now open to vehicle traffic. At a length of 10.79 kilometres (6.65 miles), the Taihu tunnel stretches under Lake Taihu in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, about 50 kilometres […]
China has developed artificial intelligence that can reportedly identify crimes and file charges against criminals with more than 97 per cent accuracy. The AI was developed and tested by the Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate and it has been trained to […]
Engineers in China are working on a super-fast hypersonic plane that will be able to fly passengers anywhere in the world within an hour. A research team has tested a prototype of a hypersonic engine, which they hope will eventually […]
Although many perceive Hong Kong to be a concrete jungle, it is home to one of Asia’s most biodiverse cities and boasts more hard coral species than the Caribbean. These corals are however under threat from pollution and constant urban […]
As the pandemic continues to hit the world, it seems Hong Kong offers a cruise that barely touches international borders only to be brought back to the origin point. After several attempts that failed to re-establish travel abroad, this cruise […]
ABU DHABI: The UAE has the most competitive industrial sector in the Arab world, according to the latest UN global rankings published. The country has reached 30th in the world in the 2021 United Nation’s Industrial Organisation’s (UNIDO) Competitive Industrial Performance […]
China’s famous gypsy elephants are on the move again, heading southwest back home in Yunnan apparently feeling homesick after their adventurous journey of 500km to the north. It is not unusual to come across elephants in the forests but what […]
An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by China’s Sinopharm — currently undergoing clinical trials in the UAE — has 86% efficacy against the virus, the emirates’ health ministry said Wednesday. Developed by Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s […]
A Chinese probe was orbiting the moon on Monday in preparation for the returning of samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years. The ascent module of the Chang’e 5 spacecraft transferred a […]
Three prominent Hong Kong activists are facing jail after pleading guilty on Monday to inciting an “illegal assembly” outside the city’s main police station during last year’s revolutionary pro-democracy protests. Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam have spent years […]
China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s. The Chang’e-5 probe, named after the […]
