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Fri, February 26, 2021 | 05:00

Rural brain drain: China appeals to urban tech talent to move to countryside

Rural brain drain: China appeals to urban tech talent to move to countryside

China has devised a big plan to encourage the country's tech talent to move to the countryside and help transform this vastly underdeveloped market, as it tries to narrow the digital divide between rural and urban areas.

2021-02-25 13:05

Joe Biden still has not nominated US ambassador to China, but some names are circulating

Joe Biden still has not nominated US ambassador to China, but some names are circulating

As President Joe Biden ticks off items on his lengthy to-do list, speculation continues to grow about who will be chosen as the next US ambassador to China. Among the names floated in Washington include Nicholas Burns, a former long-time diplomat and now a Harvard professor; Rahm Emanuel, the one-time White House chief of staff and former mayor of Chicago; Claire McCaskill, a...

2021-02-24 12:49

Proposal to matchmake China's 'leftover' urban women with unmarried rural men sparks anger

Proposal to matchmake China's 'leftover' urban women with unmarried rural men sparks anger

An expert's proposal to solve the looming social crisis caused by China's gender imbalance by matchmaking urban "leftover" women with rural unmarried men has sparked controversy.

2021-02-23 14:08

Coronavirus vaccines: Signs of weaker response to new strains in South Africa, Brazil

Coronavirus vaccines: Signs of weaker response to new strains in South Africa, Brazil

Coronavirus variants emerging from the southern hemisphere can weaken the most powerful vaccines but people should still have the shots to guard against severe disease, according to researchers. In a non-peer-reviewed study published last week, a team in Boston found a drop in the amount of the mutated South Africa strain neutralised by antibodies induced by the Pfizer-BioNTe...

2021-02-22 13:16

Michelle Wie leads golf fury at Giuliani's 'panties' story

Michelle Wie leads golf fury at Giuliani's 'panties' story

Star golfer Michelle Wie West blasted former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani after he told a story about her underwear on a recent podcast appearance. While not referencing Donald Trump's former lawyer by name, Wie West's Twitter response to an "unsettling" and "highly inappropriate story" followed Giuliani's appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast on Thursday.

2021-02-22 11:03

Pandemic adds to woes of Hong Kong's ethnic minority residents facing discrimination

Pandemic adds to woes of Hong Kong's ethnic minority residents facing discrimination

Hongkonger and Nepali Dilip Rai, 42, stops to catch his breath as he climbs the stairs to his fourth-floor flat in an old tenement building in Jordan. The security guard lives with his wife, also 42, and their nine-year-old son in one bedroom of the flat, while his cousin, 42, and her husband, 52, share the other room.

2021-02-21 10:44

China's carbon neutral push gathers pace as coal-fired power plants drop below 50 percent for first time

China's carbon neutral push gathers pace as coal-fired power plants drop below 50 percent for first time

China's coal-fired power plants fell to less than 50 percent of its total power generation mix for the first time last year, while separately, power generated from non-fossil fuels rose to make up more than a third of the country's power output, according to a new report.

2021-02-20 20:15

Surge in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese students applying to UK schools driven by passport scheme and US-China relations

Surge in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese students applying to UK schools driven by passport scheme and US-China relations

The number of students from Hong Kong and mainland China applying for British universities rose to its highest in more than a decade, after rising by about 10 and 20 per cent year on year respectively, according to official statistics. Analysts believe a spike of Hong Kong applicants was mainly because of a new visa for residents holding British National (Overseas) passports ...

2021-02-18 13:10

Nikki Han, 50, becomes only woman to finish Hong Kong's 'brutal' 298km trails - twice

Nikki Han, 50, becomes only woman to finish Hong Kong's 'brutal' 298km trails - twice

Nikki Han dragged herself to the end of the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge for a second time, the only woman to finish once, let alone twice. But unlike 2019, this 298km run was "brutal." "I've had a good one, then this one. I had to give every last little drop of blood I had to get through. Racing wise, the hardest thing I've ever done," she said.

2021-02-15 16:00

Coronavirus: More China vaccines out for delivery as world scrambles for shots

Coronavirus: More China vaccines out for delivery as world scrambles for shots

As health authorities around the world scramble for supplies, three more countries have said they are expecting deliveries of Chinese coronavirus vaccines this month.

2021-02-13 13:10

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