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By Emily Wang With China’s economy still struggling to recover from the pandemic, even global fashion icons are beginning to feel the pinch as consumers turn instead to the second-hand market or buy upstart new homegrown brands. Customers browsing bags among secondhand luxury goods at the Zhuanzhuan superstore in the Jing’an District in Shanghai, on October 14, 2026. Photo: Pedro Pardo/AFP. Chi...
Stored in a climate-controlled environment within what is commonly known as the “Fort Knox of Singapore” rests the skull of a triceratops which once roamed the earth 66 million years ago. The jagged edges of its frill and horns are largely intact, and according to its owner, Chaw Wei Yang, 26, it is one of the most complete triceratops skull fossils ever found. Chaw, who runs Fine Art Storage S...
MARAWI CITY — The Army’s 101st Infantry Brigade on Saturday rendered a 21-gun salute on Saturday for 168 soldiers and police officers who perished in the five-month battle nine years ago that concluded in the flushing out from this besieged city of Islamic State-linked militants. That is why Oct. 17 is observed as “Marawi Liberation
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
Today, I’m talking with Walter Piecyk, a partner and analyst at LightShed Partners who covers tech, media, and telecom, about SpaceX’s recently announced plan to become a major wireless carrier. Last week, SpaceX agreed to buy a big chunk of low-band spectrum to expand the Starlink network, spectrum that’s been traded around the telecom business for decades now. SpaceX’s ambitious plan is to us...
The founder of Christian human rights organization ChinaAid is raising concerns over the health of an imprisoned Chinese pastor who may be suffering from advanced liver cancer, as his family continues to face restrictions on visitation adn access to medical information. Rev. Dr. Bob Fu, founder and president of ChinaAid, told Fox News in an interview that reports concerning Pastor Wang Yi's hea...
When a couple from Xinjiang took their quintuplets home on a 36-hour train journey, the babies became favourites of both the train crew and fellow passengers, who took turns caring for them. The five babies were born on February 26 at a major hospital in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province. Their father, known as Abu, and their mother, Dili, are both from Hotan in northwestern China’s Xinj...
For patients with advanced, metastatic cancer that has progressed despite systemic therapy – options remain critically limited. Now, Chinese scientists are pointing to an unconventional therapeutic agent – the element iron. This idea originated in industrial waste water treatment: iron can react with hydrogen peroxide to generate hydroxyl radicals, which degrade various organic and toxic molecu...
Hey trendsetters, Remember when Linda Walker sprinted from our screens to our shores? The Heiress Who Won with Brains, the vertical Chinese drama following a 17-year-old girl who used her academic excellence to prove herself to her toxic family, took social media by storm, with the actress behind the protagonist, Zhang Yingfei, even making a visit to the Philippines in June. (Yingfei was invite...
Paraguay’s technology minister said on Thursday that sanctions imposed on him by Beijing over his country’s ties with Taiwan would only accelerate joint projects with the island. Gustavo Villate, who heads the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, wrote in a lengthy social media post that the relationship with Taipei would “never be on the negotiating table”. He also suggested...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — Oriental Mindoro is celebrating the fourth top-ranking examinee in this year’s Physician Licensure Examination (PLE), who has family roots in Calapan City. A graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Dr. Israel Miña Aguba, who placed fourth in the exam with a 94.75 percent rating, is the
Health Director General Dr. Patrick Amoth said the patient had been in quarantine since October 2, 2026, after developing a fever, sore throat and malaise. She was isolated and a specimen collected for testing. The sample subsequently tested positive for Ebola virus disease, specifically the Bundibugyo strain. Health DG Dr. Patrick Amoth addresses the press after receiving a consignment of the ...
The Argentine government filed a criminal complaint on Friday against protesters who took part in Thursday’s march in support of public universities , alleging property damage and assault on public officials. The complaint targets demonstrators who allegedly threw broken pieces of sidewalk and other objects at police. The complaint was filed Friday morning by the Security Ministry’s legal team....
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China considers new export curbs on solar, AI, biotech BusinessLine
The draft plan, “Announcement No. 48”, proposes a complete export ban on 14 technologies and restrictions on 26 more, including next-generation solar technologies that could affect countries such as India seeking to reduce dependence on China
A 61-year-old woman has been sentenced to three months at a psychiatric hospital for displaying “seditious” signs on a wall outside her flat in Tin Shui Wai. West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts in Hong Kong, on September 19, 2024. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts convicted Yang Chau-ki of sedition on Friday morning. Yang told the court one day earlier that she did no...
Chairperson Kuria Kimani cautioned BNPL firms’ management that the Committee would not hesitate to invoke the provisions of Standing Order 191 if any invited BNPL entity fails to appear. Molo MP Kuria Kimani, who is also chairperson of the National Assembly Finance Committee | FILE/@KuriaKimaniMP/Twitter The National Assembly committee on Finance and National Planning is set to meet with Buy No...
China proposes adding 40 AI, biotech, solar technologies to export control list Reuters
Li Renke, a visionary cardiovascular scientist who applied engineering principles to the human heart and developed conductive biomaterials to repair tissue damaged by heart attacks, died while attending an academic conference in the Chinese city of Xian earlier this month. He was 65. His death on October 10 was announced by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), where he...
Egypt's Midyan Developments plans $225mln investment in education, healthcare Zawya
After breaking his arm in New Zealand's Rugby League World Cup opener, superstar fullback Kalyn Ponga is undergoing surgery in a bid to play again in the tournament.
For nearly five decades, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has worked to bring its music to a wider audience, including people who might never have considered entering a concert hall. Executive director Celina Chin Man-wah said the orchestra had long sought to ensure Chinese music was not seen as distant, formal or difficult to understand. That has meant commissioning new works, exploring differe...
On 13 October, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forth a four-point proposition on advancing China-Africa mining cooperation during his meeting with President Duma Gideon Boko of Botswana, who was on a state visit to China. Grounded in the profound transformation of the global critical minerals landscape and Africa’s urgent need for independent development, and […] The post Mining cooperat...
China’s central bank governor Pan Gongsheng touted yuan assets to investors in Bangkok and outlined plans to expand their role in global markets, according to people who attended the closed-door event.
A Chinese fugitive who posed as his deceased twin brother for 19 years was recently arrested after his late brother’s ex-girlfriend identified him. In 2002, a robbery took place in Yuhuan, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. Seven suspects abducted the victim and robbed him of cash and valuables. Local police quickly arrested six of the suspects, but the seventh, surnamed Chen, escaped. Polic...
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, who made headlines for her rocky debut at the podium this week, has a certain Hollywood star in mind to portray her on the NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” ("SNL"). “Maybe a Scarlett Johansson-type character,” she said in an interview with conservative commentator Jack Posobiec. Johansson has...
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The Harris County DA has interviewed a key witness who was in the ICE vehicle when it hit Miguel Parra Hernandez.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) has some advice for fellow lawmakers: unapologetically support the biotech industry, vilify insurance companies, and focus on making America a biotech research haven, instead of relying on protectionism. Right now in Washington, it’s popular to support protectionist policies against China in industries like tech. China is rapidly gaining on the U.S. biotechnology...
Leading life scientist Wu Jun, who recently left the United States to return to his homeland, believes many of the world’s top embryo researchers are now working in China. Wu, well known for his stem cell research, particularly related to the stem cell-derived embryo model, is speaking in an office at Westlake University, in Hangzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Some of his belongings r...
ROME, Oct 15 - Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Leo is recovering after surgery for lung cancer, is known as the \"hospital of the popes\".
The communities noted that the petition was not intended to prejudge the outcome of ongoing investogations or to attribute liability, but was made in the public interest and on behalf of residents who may have been affected by the crash and its aftermath. The post Military Plane Crash: Igbokoda communities petition Tinubu appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .
Xiaoyue, a Chinese influencer known online for her 2.2 m height, died of illness at home in Sichuan Province, aged 26.
Pope Leo recovering as planned after lung cancer surgery, doctors say Reuters
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From today insurers are required by law to disregard a previous cancer diagnosis when assessing applications for mortgage protection insurance.
Electoral groups are working hard to educate older migrants who have been eligible to vote for some time but have never cast a ballot.
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.
As the Chinese saying goes, “Even an upright judge finds it hard to settle family matters.” Whenever Chinese TV channels air reality shows that centre on couples or parent-child relationships, controversy is guaranteed. Heated debates ensue over who is right and who is wrong. Viewers examine every facial expression in microscopic detail and overanalyse every word before arriving at their verdic...
