By Li Bijian The COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge for mankind and requires global cooperation to respond. With the development of the pandemic, many countries and regions are in great shortage of medical materials and equipment. As a responsible major country, China has been doing everything in its capacity to provide necessary support to the […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times In my office hangs an antique world map drawn in 1717, on which Antarctica, the Arctic Ocean, Alaska, and Hawaii are absent. The Mercator projection was already widely adopted in drawing maps with parallels and meridians back then and it facilitated navigation. Thanks to the development of map projection, […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times The other day, my son recommended me a piece of 8K music, which means music produced with a high-tech display resolution with superior clarity and depth. As I put on the headphones, it felt like I was surrounded by a full 360-degree wave cycle. This is not the first […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times I live in Wangjing, a quite internationalized area in Beijing. Many Fortune 500 companies are headquartered there, and 10 percent of the around 600,000 residents are expats. Every weekend, I take walks in Wangjing’s many parks to exercise and watch the changes in the city. There have been no […]
Read MoreBeijing: The ongoing military standoff between China and India could continue for a little longerdue to complexity of the situation, analysts said. The talks between the two countries’ senior military officers came at a time when China-India border tensions flared up after India recently illegally constructed defense facilities across the border into Chinese territory in […]
Read MoreUnited Nations: For the first time in United Nations’ 75-year history, world leaders will not come to New York this September for the annual session of UN General Assembly due to the coronavirus pandemic, the president of the 193-member assembly has said. In the first 10 days of the session, the leaders traditionally come face-to-face […]
Read MoreIslamabad: PPP senior leader, Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and former Interior Minister Senator A. Rehman Malik on Tuesday through his lawyers served another defamation notice to US Citizen Cynthia D. Ritchie over false, frivolous and baseless allegation of rape against him in talk shows on different private Television channels. Senator A. Rehman Malik […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said Pakistan had been hosting the Afghan refugees for four decades and would also take care of them during the coronavirus pandemic. He was addressing the virtual international conference held on the subject of the status of refugees and homeless persons amid the COVID-19 situation. Foreign Minister […]
Read MoreBy Nick Kolakowski Are H-1B workers underpaid, or does their compensation match industry standards? That’s a key question debated by the Economic Policy Institute and the Cato Institute, both of which have done deep dives into H-1B salaries over the past several weeks. The Economic Policy Institute issued a lengthy report at the beginning of […]
Read MoreBy Sarah Templeton An iconic New Zealand designer favoured by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she’s shutting her doors due to the financial toll of the COVID-19 lockdown. Ingrid Starnes’ designs have become a Kiwi favourite since launching in 2009. Her achievements include opening NZ Fashion Week and staging runway shows on Auckland city […]
Read MoreHumans of the future might look more like Pokemon characters with bigger heads, bigger eyes and improved night vision, two researchers have suggested. Artist Nickolay Lamm and computational geneticist Alan Kwan said that in 100,000 years, people might have larger heads, Google Glass type contact lenses and sideways-blinking oversized Disney eyes that glow green with […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Apart from assisting Pakistan in its fight against the COVID-19 contagion, the Government of Japan, in collaboration with a Japanese NGO and some private organizations, is all set to provide insecticide to the Government of Pakistan to support their efforts for combating the serious threats emanating from the desert locust’s attacks in the agricultural […]
Read MoreBeijing: China and Singapore had officially launched the “fast track” to facilitate the exchange of necessary business and public officials while some European and neighboring countries were communicating with China to establish similar arrangements, a Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson said on Tuesday. “After nearly two months of communication and preparation, China and Singapore have officially […]
Read MoreNaples: I fell in love with Naples when I was 18. I had taken a gap year and saved up some money, and much to the dismay of my mother, I wanted to go to Europe. There was no logical reason to go to Naples. I had never heard of the city. But I had […]
Read MoreIslamabad: As Pakistan crossed its highest 150 coronavirus-related deaths in a day, a survey reveals that only three percent Pakistanis are clear-headed about the disease, with no misconceptions about its prevention, spread and cure. A snap poll by Ipsos, a global market research and public opinion specialist released on Tuesday showed public perceptions, attitudes and […]
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