Last month, a heart-wrenching incident happened when two young ladies, after meeting on a dating app, both committed suicide. The tragedy is a wake-up call for Hong Kong of the alarming need to take swift action to protect young adults and school pupils in the digital domain. After all, the virtual community can be more […]
‘There is no health without mental health,” according to the World Health Organization. Mental health is crucial to one’s well-being. However, Hong Kong residents’ mental health has steadily worsened in recent years, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. A local study surveyed 1,000 adults in March 2022 and found that nearly half of them (49.4 percent) […]
It has been more than two years since the implementation of the National Security Law for Hong Kong (NSL). Although the law has helped the city restore order from chaos, its implementation still encounters some practical challenges. The most recent example is the debate over whether Timothy Owen, a UK-based lawyer, can represent Jimmy Lai […]
The Ta Kung Pao newspaper reported on Nov 14, 2022, that special education had been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and 23.5 percent of special educational needs (SEN) children have been abused. Such discomforting headlines suggest education for SEN children is worrisome, particularly during the pandemic. For this reason, our team of neuroscientists and social […]
Gregory May, the United States consul general to Hong Kong and Macao who took office last September, delivered a speech at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently, full of slanderous remarks about Hong Kong. First, May made a big fuss about media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s hiring of a British barrister to […]
(SHI YU / CHINA DAILY) In 1933, a Shanghai-based monthly journal published a special issue on "China's modernization" in which some scholars discussed the path to China's modernization. While a few advocated "total Westernization", others argued that China embrace Soviet socialism on the road to realizing modernization. The scholars couldn't reach a consensus, though, as […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) The first Spring Festival when people could travel freely across the country since the COVID-19 outbreak has released people's pent-up consumption to a large extent. For instance, 308 million domestic trips were made during the just concluded seven-day Spring Festival holiday, up 23.1 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of […]
This handout photo taken on February 1, 2023 and released by Western Mindanao Command shows US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (right) shaking hands with Westmincom commander Lieutenant General Roy Galido (left) shortly after arriving at the Westmincom headquarters in Zamboanga City, in southern island of Mindanao. (PHOTO / WESTERN MINDANAO COMMAND / AFP) After […]
A technician tests chips at a tech firm in Hefei, Anhui province. (XIE CHEN / FOR CHINA DAILY) To further strangle China's technology sector, the United States is reportedly considering banning all sales to Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei by US suppliers, including Intel and Qualcomm. Such a move would tighten the restrictions already imposed […]
Visiting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg certainly knows the difficulty of persuading the Republic of Korea to provide military supplies to Ukraine, something it has not done. That's why he stressed to his hosts in a think tank speech in Seoul on Monday "what happens in Europe matters to the Indo-Pacific". He is also aware that […]
Lisbon, Portugal, February 02, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) – Smplr, a full-cycle cryptocurrency platform for companies that want to use or already using digital financial assets in operations, has granted access to all early users and will launch an open beta version in the near future. Smplr’s solutions will allow businesses to effectively track fiat and cryptocurrency payments and […]
Seoul, Korea, February 02, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) – NFT Marketplace playNomm (CEO Sung-Uk Moon) and Superchief Gallery NFT is hosting the Asia number one NFT Conference, ‘NFT Korea Festival’ on March 7th & 8th 2023, at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP). The NFT Korea Festival is the largest gathering of Web3 and NFT industry leaders, artists, and enthusiasts in Asia. There […]
The National Security Law for Hong Kong (NSL) has been widely criticized but not widely understood by the Western media and politicians. Not surprisingly, the recent interpretation of the NSL by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) received a hostile reception from US Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao Gregory May. […]
In Lewis Carroll’s classic story, Alice in Wonderland, Alice declares, “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense,” and she is by no means the only one to feel that way. Although, since 2020, when it left the European Union, the United Kingdom has had a world of its own, its […]
(SHI YU / CHINA DAILY) Nearly 60 years have elapsed since Martin Luther King Jr. made the iconic and one of the most powerful speeches in the history of civil liberties and human rights movements. "I have a dream…" is a touching speech, a powerful protest against racial discrimination, yet his grandchildren are still judged […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) China's population was 1.41 billion at the end of 2022, down 850,000 from the previous year, with a natural population growth rate of-0.60 per thousand, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. This is the first time since 1962 that the country's population has seen negative growth and therefore a […]
Following their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday, both visiting United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the two countries' long-standing consensus on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. His government's policy is "to do everything within Israel's power to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and […]
Sichuan province's newly-amended regulation on birth registration requires no marriage certificate for anyone to register the birth of a baby. Which means a single parent or unmarried couple does not have to worry about getting a birth certificate for their babies born out of wedlock. This is not the first local regulation of its kind. […]
The frequency with which United States State Department spokespersons have mentioned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's upcoming visit to China recently, as well as the wide spectrum of topics they have touched upon as part of the discussions — ranging from the Taiwan question and Ukraine crisis to the Korean Peninsula issue and fentanyl […]
According to a recent report published by the IADB, the LAC PropertyChain pilot shows that “complex property transactions can be sufficiently modeled, coded, and processed on a distributed blockchain network.”. The report goes on to explain how the technology can alleviate problems that currently plague real estate transactions in Latin America. STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, February 01, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) […]
NFT auction on playNomm for a pre-drop event of NFT Korea Festival. Artwork was sold out at its highest buyout of US$ 16,937 in 4 minutes. Seoul, Korea, February 01, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) – On January 31st, on NFT marketplace playNomm (CEO, Sung-Uk Moon), Equinoz’s, one of Superchief Gallery NFT artists, artwork recorded a sold out 4 minutes […]
The Mini makes it easy to earn income from the internet. CASPER, WYOMING, February 01, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) – PKT Pal has announced the launch of its latest product, the Mini by PKT Pal. The Mini is an Open Mesh wifi system that enables users with high-quality internet to earn money by safely sharing online access. Each Mini includes […]
Against a bleak backdrop of recent economic contraction, rising inflation, rising interest rates and falling property prices, the recent reopening of the borders with the Chinese mainland is a very welcome step forward. Relaxed travel measures will stimulate the local economy, underpin growth and partially counter the effects from ongoing global economic and geopolitical turmoil. […]
Speaking at a forum organized by a US think tank, US Consul General to Hong Kong Gregory May held forth on allegations against Beijing and the Hong Kong Special Administrative government of undercutting the city’s high degree of autonomy, and called on the SAR administration to drop all charges against “individuals unjustly detained” in Hong […]
China’s population fell by 850,000 people in 2022, the first such contraction in six decades, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The national birth rate fell to 6.77 births per 1,000 people against a death rate of 7.37 per 1,000 people. Meanwhile, China’s aging crisis is deepening, with 280.04 million people […]
Editor's note: China has established a food security guarantee system at a very high level characterized by quality, efficiency and sustainability. China's food security has a stronger guarantee, along a steadier and wider path with Chinese characteristics, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. A harvester reaps rice on a farm in Anqing, Anhui province, […]
This aerial photo taken on Jan 26, 2022 shows a cargo vessel at Rizhao Port in Rizhao, East China's Shandong province. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Just as a corporate balance sheet can provide insights into a company's financial health, a "global balance sheet" (GBS), tallying the assets and liabilities of governments, corporations, households, and financial institutions, […]
(LI MIN / CHINA DAILY) The world is undergoing rapid changes because the COVID-19 pandemic is yet to be contained, the global economic recovery remains sluggish, and the industrial and supply chains are still unstable. And the Russia-Ukraine conflict has accelerated the pace of global changes. Amid all this, some countries' Cold War mentality and […]
The first overseas plant of Chinese power battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology in Thuringia, Germany, which started the mass production of lithium-ion battery cells as scheduled recently, serves as a good example of the pragmatic cooperation between China and Germany. The 14 gigawatt-hour plant, with an investment of 1.8 billion euros ($1.96 billion), is currently […]
Passengers wait in a line for check-in at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Jan 8, 2023. (PHOTO / VCG) That there has been no surge in novel coronavirus infections and no new variant of the virus has appeared on the mainland before and during the Chinese New Year holiday as of Jan 23, according […]