During a preview of the annual Han Kuang military exercise, Taiwan's swordfish submarines test-fired heavy torpedoes on July 1 off the southeastern coast of the island. It was Taiwan's first torpedo
Polish President Andrzej Duda, a conservative who ran a campaign with homophobic and anti-Semitic overtones, narrowly won a second five-year term in a bitterly fought w
As expected, BigCommerce has filed to go public. The Austin, Texas, based e-commerce company raised over $200 million while private. The company’s IPO filing lists a $100 million placeholder fig
Salem Al-Huwaili, a 46-year-old Syrian displaced man, climbs up a tall pine tree in a forest in the town of Kfar Hamam in the eastern side of southern Lebanon. Nicknam
Voters in Poland on Sunday will decide a tight runoff election between populist incumbent President Andrzej Duda and his liberal pro-European Union challenger, Warsaw M
Applications in England to join nurse training courses have rocketed by 16 percent to hit 47,320 by the end of June, 2020, figures from the Nursing and Midwifery's Coun
Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts, U.S., July 8, 2020 /VCG Photo When universities in the U.S. are struggling to reopen for the fall semester, they encountered a new uncertainty in
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose by 2.5 percent year on year in June, expanding 0.1 percentage points than May due to increasing prices of pork and vegetables.Accor
02:19 Marilyn Monroe's popular song "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" made the gemstone a popular symbol of "forever love" for half a century, but so far this year, the shinning rock
A documentary film about China's poverty relief won a Dutch film award and was released on Youku on July 2.Farewell to Poverty, directed by Lu Guanghua, won an Around International Film Festival (
U.S. company Riot Games, one of the world's leading video game developers and e-sports operators, will locate its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, local authorities confirmed. According to th
Tim O’Reilly has a financial incentive to pooh-pooh the traditional VC model, wherein investors gamble on nascent startups in hopes of seeing many times their money back. Bryce Roberts, who is O
After a shutdown of exactly five months due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) restarted on the afternoon of June 20. But, like most of the other recently reboot
Apple is rolling out a range of new features and improvements that are aimed at users in India, China and other international markets with its yearly updates to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating syste
BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) meets with Fre
Duku Highway, deemed one of China's most beautiful roads, on Saturday opened to tourists after completing its yearly "hibernation." The 560-km highway, connecting Dush
Doubt has been cast over a Harvard study that suggested that the new coronavirus broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan as far back as August 2019.The research, which has not been peer-reviewed, u
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