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A Manila recycling centre is turning presidential campaign posters and banners into plastic bricks that can be used at schools, parks and other community projects.
A mathematics teacher has come up with a novel way to attract new students to his online classes. Thinking out of the box, Chang Shun-wei decided to upload his maths lessons on the free online porn site Pornhub. Featuring scantily clad female models erasing maths equations off the blackboard, Chang’s online classes …
A rare intact dinosaur embryo fossil has been uncovered in China’s southern Jiangxi province. Based on the characteristics of the skeleton, scientists from the Fujian Science and Technology Museum and China University of Geosciences, who announced the discovery on May 11, 2022, believe it belongs to the hadrosaurus …
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A team at City University of Hong Kong says it has developed a lightweight winged drone that has double the flight time of other drones and weighs less than 100 grams. Researchers say the 35-gram drone can carry a small air-quality sensor or camera for mapping and surveillance tasks and hover for 15 to 24 minutes, d…
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 10, 2022, that China’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 policy is not sustainable given what is now known of the virus. It was a rare public comment by the UN agency on a government’s handling of the pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said increased knowledge abou…
Against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing bloody invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s annual Victory Day parade took place on May 9, 2022. In his Victory Day speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin framed his military invasion of Ukraine as a necessary response to Nato’s policy on Russia’s borders. "The danger was rising b…
Janet Lam (middle), wife of Hong Kong's incoming chief executive John Lee, performs onstage during a charity event for the City University of Hong Kong Foundation in 2018. Her group, known as the "Singing Girls", also includes the wives of three former and current disciplinary forces’ chiefs. The quintet enjoys sere…
A university student was filmed dancing enthusiastically on a balcony in Shanghai. His captivating dance moves have entertained many others who have been in lockdown in the dormitory for almost two months. That, and more trending videos from China this week.
A school in eastern Ukraine has been destroyed by Russian bombing. According to the governor of the Luhansk region, where the school of Bilogorivka village is located, up to 60 people hiding in the school are feared dead, including many civilians. Governor Serhiy Haidai said the school was hit on the morning of May …
Former Hong Kong police official and chief secretary John Lee Ka-chiu was officially elected to become the city’s next chief executive on May 8, 2022. As a secondary school student at Wah Yan College (Kowloon) in the 1970s, Hong Kong’s incoming leader was described as a “responsible” and “conscientious” student. In …
This swarm of 10 autonomous drones can manoeuvre through a bamboo forest in China. They are the first to successfully fly outdoors and navigate unprogrammed obstacles, according to researchers at Zhejiang University who led the experiment.
The life of a sumo wrestler can be one of lavish gifts and public adoration. But it’s a short-lived career. Most sumo wrestlers retire in their 30s with little education and no real-world work experience. Few even earn salaries during their time in the sport. It can be a tough transition for many, but some former wr…
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Police have arrested nine people suspected of covering up the shoddy construction and unsafe conditions of a six-storey building that collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha, in central China. At least 39 people were missing, most of them students of the nearby Changsha Medical University, after the mixed-use buil…
Thousands of girls and women have been kidnapped over the decades in China. Experts say the major reason behind the trafficking of women is gender imbalance sparked by the country’s previous one-child policy, which has led to parents favouring boys over girls. Many of the abducted girls or women remain missing despi…
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A mother of 2 volunteered to carry out a suicide bombing attack, which killed 3 Chinese nationals in Karachi, Pakistan, on April 26, 2022. The assailant, Shari Baloch, held graduate degrees in zoology and education. She had volunteered on behalf of a separatist group called the Baloch Liberation Army, which claimed …
Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang Kong was found dead on April 27, 2022, in a Tsim Sha Tsui hotel-quarantine room after returning from Singapore. He was staying in the room on his own. The 87-year-old actor had appeared in more than 220 films after obtaining a degree in architecture at the University of Californ…
The courthouse lobby echoed like a crowded school cafeteria. Teenagers in sweatshirts and sneakers gossiped and scrolled on their phones as they clutched the yellow tickets that police had issued them at school.
A university student was filmed dancing enthusiastically on a balcony in Shanghai. His captivating dance moves have entertained many others who have been in lockdown in the dormitory for almost 2 months.
Three Chinese nationals and a Pakistani citizen were killed in the port city of Karachi when the van they were in exploded on April 26, 2022.The Chinese victims, two men and a woman, taught at the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese cultural and language programme supported by Beijing. The Balock …
The Pedia_Roid simulates the jittery movements that children often make in the dentist chair, helping to train paediatric dentists. Co-developed by a Japanese robotics startup, Tmsuk, and a local dental school, the robot is designed to address the lack of clinical training for paediatric dentists and doctors.
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Cambodia’s performing arts group Phare offers local children from underprivileged communities a chance to get an education, earn money and pursue their dreams. Founded by a group of artists who were Khmer Rouge survivors, Phare was set up to preserve the performing arts in Cambodia. In addition to its schools in the…
Researchers in Beijing said they have developed a robot rat that they hope can be used in post-disaster rescue missions. The team behind the invention, from Beijing Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University, said the rat can squeeze through narrow spaces, climb slopes, get past obstacles and walk on snow. It c…
Nepalese Ojaswi Ghulu was only eight months old in 2014 when she was chosen to become the “Living Goddess of Panauti”, revered by the nation’s Hindus as the incarnation of the goddess of power, Kali. Now at age eight, the girl is experiencing a mostly normal childhood, attending school, playing and pursuing personal…
A series of blasts near a high school and nearby education centre in western Kabul have killed at least six people including some teenage students. Many living in the neighbourhood where the April 19, 2022, explosions happened belong to the Shia Hazara community, an ethnic and religious minority frequently targeted …
Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate, former chief secretary John Lee Ka-chiu discussed his future policy during a press conference on April 18, 2022, saying that he hopes to finish his manifesto “as soon as possible.” The 64-year-old Lee on April 9 announced his candidacy for Hong Kong’s chief executive elect…
Around 59,600 Ukrainians in the US are eligible to apply to remain for up to 18 months under an expanded Temporary Protected Status programme. This has allowed Ukrainians to cross the border faster than other asylum seekers, including Augusto Martinez, a Honduran migrant waiting for the end of a pandemic-era expulsi…
Students are preparing for Hong Kong’s annual university entrance exams, which are set to begin on April 22, 2022. The Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams are among the most important tests for students in the city, since their results determine eligibility to attend tertiary institutions. The Post spoke with…
For nearly eight years, Tini Kasmawati has been on a self-funded mission to care for endangered silvery gibbons, a species native to the jungles of West Java in Indonesia. She was spurred to action after meeting a Dutch student who came to the country to study the primates in 2014. Also known as the “Javan gibbon” o…
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have identified gut bacteria patterns that may be used to predict, diagnose and help treat long Covid. Professor Siew Chien Ng, associate director of the university’s Centre for Gut Microbiota Research, says a simple stool test can tell recovered Covid-19 patients t…
Indonesian police fired tear gas and a water cannon on April 11, 2022 to disperse hundreds of university students protesting high cooking oil prices and the rumoured extension of President Joko Widodo's stay in office. After influential politicians had publicly backed the idea, Widodo instructed his government to st…
A veteran Hong Kong journalist and consultant for the journalism school at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Allan Au Ka-lun, has been arrested by the city’s national security police. The arrest early morning on April 11, 2022, was over allegations of sedition according to a police source. Au had worked at local …
A magnetic slime robot has been developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the hope of using it in surgery. The slime contains magnetic particles which can be manipulated when external magnets are applied to it. Although the magnetic particles are toxic, a protective coating is being develope…
In an online press conference on April 9, 2022, Hong Kong's former No 2 official John Lee announced his next steps as he officially declared his bid to become the city's sixth chief executive. In his speech, Lee reaffirmed that as part of his policy strategy, that Hong Kong must maintain its competitiveness as an in…
In Pakistan, sewage workers have to go deep into the sewers every day to manually clean up the dark, stinking sludge that often blocks pipes. It’s a task that many perform with their hands and all who do it have to brave the foul stench and toxic gas. Many sanitation workers in the country come from minority groups …
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Glowing blue patches, also known as “blue tears”, have been lighting up waters off Pingtan Island in eastern China’s Fujian province. Drawing crowds of tourists, the natural phenomenon is actually caused by a tiny bioluminescent organism called dinoflagellates, a type of algae that glows when disturbed. Despite its …
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Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered the closure of secondary schools for girls only hours after female pupils were allowed back into classrooms. The Taliban said it has yet to decide on what type of uniforms the girls must wear. March 23, 2022, was the first date high school girls had been allowed back in clas…
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has revealed a raft of changes to the city’s Covid-19 pandemic control measures which will start from April, including a reduction in the length of quarantine for people arriving in the city, as well as lifting flight bans on travel from Australia, Canada, France, India, P…
Two brave secondary school students rescued a two-year-old girl hanging from the railings of a sixth floor window in central China’s Henan province.
Since the Russian invasion on February 24, tens of thousands of people have fled Ukraine. In recent days, images of Indian students trying to flee the country have emerged. Indians are estimated to be the largest group studying in Ukraine, making up 18,000 of the 76,000 foreign student population. The South China Mo…
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Babies have been born in a makeshift maternity ward set up in a bomb shelter in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. This came as Russian troops intensified a shelling campaign against the city, forcing a local hospital to move its maternity ward to safety underground. Despite residential buildings, schools and ho…
