Shannon Tan created history by becoming the first Singaporean amateur to win the inaugural Singapore Ladies Masters on the China Ladies Professional Golf Association (CLPGA) Tour on Saturday. Playing on her home course at the Laguna National Golf Resort Club, the 19-year-old closed with a six-under-par 66 for a one-shot victory over China's Ji Yuai, […]
China's film authority on Tuesday night announced the box office in China in 2023 has so far exceeded 50 billion yuan ($6.85 billion). Breaking it down, the box office of domestic films reached 41.7 billion yuan, accounting for 83.4 percent. Although it looks unlikely for the box office this year to reach pre-pandemic 2019's 64 […]
Panzhihua, a small mountain city in western China, welcomed a group of special guests from the ocean recently. A total of 80 athletes from the Solomon Islands officially started a 90-day training program on Monday in the city in Southwest China's Sichuan Province in the hope of gaining better results during the upcoming 2023 Pacific […]
Barring any unexpected developments in the coming months, voters in the US will once again choose between a Cold War-loving Democrat and an out-of-control Republican to be their next president. The world should be concerned. Perhaps the world has already realized that moving in another direction is wise. Joe Biden will again be the Democratic […]
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The moon is the next giant leap of humanity and as such we need to cooperate, not create barriers, senior space policy advisor Giuseppe Reibaldi, president and founder of the Moon Village Association (MVA), told the Global Times in an exclusive interview. "The further we go from the Earth, the more the cooperation is required," […]
COVID-19 is still the number one infectious disease in Beijing, said Beijing health officials on Thursday, noting that EG.5, a sublineage of the Omicron variant, is currently the dominant strain across China, accounting for over 70 percent of COVID-19 infections. According to the 33rd weekly report in 2023 released by the Beijing health commission, the […]
Be wary, wine lovers: Climate change can muck with your merlots. By tracking the timing of French and Swiss grape harvests from 1600 through 2007, scientists have discovered that the link between high temperatures and drought conditions — a combination crucial for fine wine production — has broken down since 1980. Warm temperatures hasten grape […]
‘Hearing’ electrically — A deaf person has been able to “hear” as a result of direct electrical excitation of auditory nerve fibers. But what he can hear may not make much sense…. Although speech-modulated stimuli were not understood, they were unerringly recognized as speech, mainly by rhythm and volume cues…. Optimism about the possibility of […]
As happens every summer, sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking as temperatures warm. But this year is a particularly warm year, and there is less sea ice than there usually is. Scientists say Earth is on track to matchor perhaps even exceed the record low extent of summertime sea ice seen in September 2012. […]