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Has China pulled the plug on world’s largest particle collider?
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. Advertisement An ambitious multibillion-dollar plan to build the world’s...
How Chinese ritual uses hot oil to determine person’s guilt using boiling lube
In ancient China, a special method of divine judgment known as the “oil-scooping ritual” served to make final rulings in cases of theft or...
UK woman arrested in Thailand for offering ‘sacred sexuality’ wellness classes
A British woman allegedly teaching tantric yoga and “sacred sexuality” on Thailand’s Koh Phangan has been arrested for working illegally as authorities crack down...
‘Professor Kangkung’: Malaysian academic mocked for Roman shipbuilding theory
Published: 5:42pm, 6 Nov 2025Updated: 5:44pm, 6 Nov 2025 An associate professor from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) has raised eyebrows – and...
Hong Kong’s ICAC charges ex-biotech lab head over hiding conflict of interest
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged a former senior biotech executive over allegedly concealing a conflict of interest when selecting a subcontractor for a...
China’s Mars orbiter Tianwen-1 snaps image of interstellar visitor 3I/Atlas
Published: 5:30pm, 6 Nov 2025Updated: 5:36pm, 6 Nov 2025 China’s Mars orbiter Tianwen-1 has captured a rare snapshot of a mysterious interstellar visitor that...
Apple nears US$1 billion-a-year deal to use Google’s Gemini AI model for Siri
Apple plans to pay about US$1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed by Alphabet’s Google that would...
Hong Kong school’s use of simplified Chinese in exams draws backlash from parents
Published: 5:26pm, 6 Nov 2025Updated: 5:37pm, 6 Nov 2025 An unprecedented decision by a government-run primary school in Hong Kong to allow pupils to...