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Uyghur doctoral student arrested from Chinese University

30Oct

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Uyghur doctoral student arrested from Chinese University

China is not stopping its atrocities on Uyghur people. China has arrested a doctoral student who is a student in Xinjiang region and has earned academic achievements. Abduqadirjan Rozi, a 35-year-old graduate management student at Sun Yat-sen University, won the 2015 National College Student English Competition in China and in 2018 was named the university’s student of the year and the 'Model Person of the Powerful New Generation', Radio Free Asia reported. He holds an advanced certificate in English from Cambridge International Business English and served as a judge for the Xinjiang division of the annual “21st Century Coca-Cola Cup” National English-Speaking competition, the news portal reported. He, however, disappeared from social media and then from his community in Ap

Shipping disrupted because of congestion on China-Mongolia port

29Oct

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Shipping disrupted because of congestion on China-Mongolia port

New Delhi: The working of the major shipping ports on the border of China and Magnolia are disrupted because of massive congestion. Mongolia mostly depends on its ports situated on the China-Mongolia border, particularly the Tianjin and Dalian ports as well as the Erenhort land port for conducting its national trade. Mongolia, which is bordered and landlocked by both China and Russia, relies exclusively on there Chinese ports for access to economic trade and supply with other countries. The extended and prolonged congestion, especially at the Tianjin port, has created a multitude of issues for Mongolia as currently 4,378 shipping containers are congested at Tianjin which further require expenditure in the form of container rental payments and storage fees, increasing costs for Mongo...

US visa rejection due to spying of technology

24Oct

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US visa rejection due to spying of technology

Pushkar Sinha The US government has rejected the visas of over 500 Chinese students by enforcing a policy set up by the Donald Trump administration. This is another solid action taken by USA against China. The policy has been put in place to prevent Chinese students from stealing American technology and giving it to the Chinese military. Chinese spying had become rampant in the US in the past few years. Even those students, who were already enrolled in US universities, have found their visas have been taken away. Many Chinese students were hoping to go back to universities in America after attending classes at home in China. Students from various disciplines have been targeted out, especially STEM fields where Chinese spying is extensive. Hence, even those students who were enrol...

First all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit aboard SpaceX Dragon

15Oct

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First all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit aboard SpaceX Dragon

First all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit aboard SpaceX Dragon The Inspiration 4 civilian crew aboard a Crew Dragon capsule and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.(Photo: Reuters) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A SpaceX rocket ship blasted off from Florida on Wednesday carrying a billionaire e-commerce executive and three less-wealthy private citizens he chose to join him in the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit. The quartet of amateur astronauts, led by the American founder and chief executive of financial services firm Shift4 Payments Inc, Jared Isaacman, lifted off just before sunset from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, and the spacecraft roared into the darkened skies. A SpaceX webca...

15Oct

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Ratch ramps up its capacity

SET-listed Ratch Group is on its way to hitting a target of 10,000 megawatts in total electricity generation capacity, as it expects to have additional capacity of 1,000MW from three domestic and overseas power plant projects worth 31 billion baht by the end of this year. Its current capacity stands at 8,292MW from power plants in Thailand and countries overseas, including Laos, Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam. The move was announced yesterday by Ratch chief executive Kijja Sripatthangkura. One of the three projects is a coal-fired thermal power plant from PT Paiton Energy in Indonesia. The facility, with capacity of up to 900MW, has an investment value of 25.4 billion baht. Ratch is preparing to ask for approval of this project at a meeting of its shareholders. The other two initiat...

Chinese billionaire Wang Xing got its antitrust investigation of Meituan closed by govt

13Oct

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Chinese billionaire Wang Xing got its antitrust investigation of Meituan closed by govt

Beijing: Chinese government has again slammed a big businessman from their estate. The businessman blocked his 18,000 public posts days before government issued him a fine of a US$533 million on him. Wang Xing founded the Chinese group-buying site Meituan in 2010. Meituan was hugely successful and merged with Dianping in 2015. Online checks made by the South China Morning Post found that Wang has hidden from the public all of his 661 posts on popular Chinese microblogging service Weibo and 17,105 posts on Fanfou, a now-obscure microblogging platform that he launched in 2007 during his early days as an entrepreneur. Fanfou has served as Wang’s de facto online fan club, where he has posted about three times a day on average for 14 years, reporter Coco Feng wrot

13Oct

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Once more unto the breach

Firms can save on costs and aggravation by upgrading their data security measures Organisations are being urged to adopt a "zero trust" approach to fend off cybersecurity attacks. WICHAN CHAROENKIATPAKUL The pandemic has driven scores of organisations to pivot towards digitalisation to ensure business continuity, but more exposure to the digital world also means there is more risk of cybercrime if companies do not have proper defensive measures in place. A series of organisations in Thailand have fallen prey to cyber-attacks the past couple of years, including airlines, banks, public service groups, healthcare and e-commerce firms. A recent high-profile case involved state-run Phetchabun Hospital, which saw the data of more than 10,000 patients stolen through its web-based application,...

Scarborough-born activist and educator Curtis Carmichael wants to help kids thrive, not just survive

11Oct

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Scarborough-born activist and educator Curtis Carmichael wants to help kids thrive, not just survive

“It’s tricky,” says Curtis Carmichael as he explains the difference between how the police treated him and his friends in their housing project in Scarborough and the way they operate in other parts of the city. Carmichael, 28, seems to use these two words when he’s holding something back, perhaps softening the edges around the complex realities of living as a young Black man in Canada for someone like me — a privileged white journalist who grew up in the same city, but in the world outside the four streets of the self-contained neighbourhood where Carmichael spent all his time. Or maybe it’s his way of saying he is exhausted from having to explain it to people who don’t share those experiences. “It’s tricky.” When he was seven, Carmichael and his family moved from a pre-gentrified Regen

11Oct

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Reopenings face even more delays

Visitors arrive on Koh Samui, Surat Thani province, when the island reopened on July 15. (Photo: Supapong Chaolan) The reopening plan for five provinces might be delayed by a month to Nov 1 as each province's vaccination rate still falls short of 70% coverage, leading Chiang Mai to put its faith in the domestic market instead. Thanet Phetsuwan, deputy director for communications and marketing at the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), said the October plan may be postponed to Nov 1 because of the condition that each area must inoculate 70% of its population. It came after TAT had a meeting with a working group under the Public Health Ministry about the reopening proposal before it was submitted to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). The public health ministry also ...

10Oct

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Gaming computer sales soar

Two teenagers engage in a game during Thailand Game Expo 2020. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul) The market for gaming computers has experienced a surge in growth, driven by the rising number of gamers amid the pandemic along with those engaged in e-sports, which have recently been recognised as an official sport by authorities, according to tech pioneers. "Since the pandemic took place, the number of casual gamers has risen as students who stay online have more time to play games, in addition to existing hardcore gamers," said Anothai Wettayakorn, vice-president for Asia Emerging Markets and South Asia Consumer Business at Dell Technologies. Thailand's recent announcement that it recognises e-sports as an official sport has also given a boost to the segment. "These are two key factors that bo...