China grid wears powerful ‘diamond ring’ to prevent blackouts
Published: 5:14pm, 30 May 2025Updated: 5:17pm, 30 May 2025 China’s power grid now wields a futuristic safeguard against catastrophic collapses – a quantum-powered, all-seeing...
Disgraced Chinese admiral Miao Hua suspected of ‘legal violations’
China said that Miao Hua, a disgraced admiral and member of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), was suspected of “legal violations”, suggesting his...
Is Asia ditching the dollar? China’s yuan, gold, and bitcoin drive trade shifts
A growing number of Asian economies are cautiously moving away from the US dollar by creating alternative trade agreements and increasing their investments in...
Equitable Access To Nature Improves Wellbeing In Urban Areas
AsianScientist (May. 30, 2025) – As global urbanisation accelerates, it becomes more important to understand the relationship between natural spaces and the wellbeing of urban residents....
China’s DeepSeek closes in on US rival OpenAI with upgraded model
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek said R1-0528, the first significant upgrade to its R1 reasoning model that debuted in January, matched the performance...
Mark Twain was wrong. Travel is not as fatal to prejudice as hoped
Mark Twain, in his bestseller The Innocents Abroad, commented on travel as the great unifier: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and...
Bessent Says US–China Tariff Talks ‘a Bit Stalled’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials are lagging and may require intervention from both countries’ leaders....
Netflix probes mistreatment claims on set of ‘When Life Gives You Tangerines’
Published: 4:20pm, 30 May 2025Updated: 4:24pm, 30 May 2025 Netflix is investigating allegations of mistreatment on the set of its South Korean drama series...
80% of pupils get Hong Kong schools in their top 3 picks via allocation system
Published: 4:11pm, 30 May 2025Updated: 4:28pm, 30 May 2025 About 80 per cent of children set to enter Hong Kong’s public primary schools in...