A hybrid double-cropping rice paddy field yielded over 1.6 tons per mu (about 0.067 hectares) in two growing seasons in one year, hitting a new record, according to CMG
U.S. soldiers stand guard at the site of a car bombing in Nangarhar Province, E Afghanistan, January 5, 2015. /Xinhua In 2001, the Bush administration launched the Afghanistan War against Osam
Space lotuses are in blossom in Xiaogan City, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2020. /CFPA sea of white lotus, grown from space-bred seeds, is blooming under ear
Political debate at work was not encouraged when I was training to be a doctor at the LAC+USC Medical Center in the early 2000s.On the 13th-floor jail ward, we had a professional duty to care for drun
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Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach
It is said that the best way to lose the next war is to keep fighting the last one. The citadels of the medieval ages were an effective defense until gunpowder and cannons changed siege warfare foreve
Customers have been “experiencing” business since the ancient Romans browsed the Forum for produce, pottery and leather goods. But digitization has radically recalibrated the buyer-seller
VCG Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and television, and documentary filmmaker. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not n
VCG Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and television, and documentary filmmaker. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not n
VCG As the world commemorated World Malaria Day on Sunday, dozens of riders in Uganda, including young and old, rode over 30 km to raise awareness against the disease.The commemorations were h
Israeli startup WhizzCo says it’s time for publishers to adopt the programmatic, auction-based approach when it comes to the ads in content recommendation widgets like Outbrain and Taboola.After
A representation of virtual currency Bitcoin is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken March 15, 2021. /Reuters Bitcoin hit a record of $62,741 on Tuesday, extending its 202
Asian share markets eased on Friday as a spike in global bond yields soured sentiment toward richly priced tech stocks, while a stampede out of crowded positions in crude oil caused the sharpest setb
One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth and plans to open its platform to a wider strea
Pedestrians walk past an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2021. /CFP Asian shares firmed on Monday as some semblance of calm returned to bond mark
The world's major central banks adopted unprecedented monetary stimulus measures in 2020 in response to the impact of COVID-19. /CFP Editor's note: Guan Tao is the chief economist of BOC Inter
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