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Australian Open 2025: Zheng looks to emulate Li’s Grand Slam success Down Under

There seemed a touch of destiny when Zheng Qinwen made the Australian Open final last year a decade after trailblazing compatriot Li Na hoisted the women’s trophy. Zheng ended up crushed by nemesis Aryna Sabalenka in the decider but this year will hope to go one better and join Li as the second Chinese player to win a Grand Slam …

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1 week ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The long trauma of Covid: Lessons should be learnt

Deccan Chronicle

In November-December 2019, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome new coronavirus, also called SARS-CoV2 or Covid-19 as named by the World Health Organisation, was coming out the shadows as the Chinese doctors noticed cases of pneumonia emerging at a rapid and large scale emerging in Wuhan. The total number of cases of infection was 770 million, and the global Covid-19 death …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Ten cars from European and US brands you might not know are made in China

Daily Mail

A recent poll of UK drivers found that more Britons are coming around to the prospect of buying and driving a Chinese car. BMW iX3 The BMW iX3 is the first model built for export at the German giant's Shenyang factory in China operated by the joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive Arriving to the UK market in summer 2021, the …

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5 cosas que sabemos y que aún ignoramos sobre el COVID, 5 años después de su aparición

Associated Press

Hace cinco años, un grupo de personas en Wuhan, China, enfermó con un virus nunca antes visto en el mundo. Terminó desencadenando una pandemia que expuso las profundas desigualdades en el sistema de salud global y reformuló la opinión pública sobre cómo controlar los virus emergentes mortales. El invierno pasado en Estados Unidos, las personas de 75 años o más …

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1 week, 1 day ago

5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

Associated Press

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print We don’t know. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Scientists and vaccine-makers broke speed records developing COVID-19 vaccines that …

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1 week, 2 days ago

5 cosas que sabemos y que aún ignoramos sobre el COVID, 5 años después de su aparición

LA Times

ARCHIVO – Un trabajador sanitario toma una muestra de hisopo de un trabajador de la empresa China Star Optoelectronics Technology durante una ronda de pruebas para detectar el COVID-19 en Wuhan, en la provincia de Hubei, centro de China, el 5 de agosto de 2021. Terminó desencadenando una pandemia que expuso las profundas desigualdades en el sistema de salud global …

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China says it has shared most Covid data of any country after WHO calls for further access

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China defended its approach to …

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1 week, 4 days ago

WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “Without transparency, sharing, and cooperation among countries, the world cannot adequately prevent and prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.” China’s Foreign Ministry defended the …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

COVID lab leak evidence: Biden kept in dark as spy chiefs 'silenced' FBI and scientists from briefing, report says

Hindustan Times

A new report reveals that the FBI, which had strong evidence suggesting that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak, was reportedly excluded from briefing President Biden. Despite being the only U.S. intelligence agency to conclude a lab leak was the most probable cause, the FBI was reportedly left out of the National Intelligence Council’s August 2021 briefing. Defense and …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Behind closed doors: The spy world scientists who argued covid was a lab leak

Live Mint

A car and driver had been readied to whisk Jason Bannan from FBI headquarters early one morning in August 2021 to brief the White House on a novel virus that was killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and had stopped the world in its tracks. Frustrated by China’s stonewalling, President Biden had ordered an urgent assessment by the U.S. intelligence …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Highlights of new quality productive forces: Low-altitude economy

China Daily

Low-altitude logistics distribution achievements In August 2024, Meituan drones began food and emergency delivery services to visitors at the Badaling section of the Great Wall. Meituan released the fourth generation of new drone models, focusing on the new multi-rotor models of urban low-altitude logistics distribution scenarios on July 5, 2023. Meituan began self-developing drone technology in 2017 and sent the …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Buzzwords reflect evolving dynamism

China Daily

Students take a fitness class during a night class at Wuhan Donghu High-Tech Development Zone in Wuhan, Hubei province, April 22, 2024. From "workplace vibe" to "youth night schools," the top 10 new buzzwords of 2024 offer a snapshot of the evolving lifestyles and priorities of China's younger generation, according to a list unveiled Tuesday by the National Language Resources …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Microplastics are choking our waters. Could a sponge made of squid bones help remove them?

CNN

CNN — Microplastics are everywhere. “Even under a variety of policies, including plastic product reduction, waste management, and environmental recycling, microplastic pollution is irreversible and escalating.” The microplastics problem Microplastics are tiny shards of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters. The low cost and wide availability of both cotton and squid bones mean the sponge created in Wuhan “has great potential …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Concerns raised over toy kitchen use after girl burned

China Daily

A 10-year-old girl in Wuhan, Hubei province, was severely burned recently while playing with a "mini kitchen" toy capable of heating food, raising concerns over the safety of toys that enable children to cook real food. "Even if a toy induction cooker is not very powerful, certain areas can reach temperatures high enough to cause skin tissue degeneration and necrosis," …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Republican-led U.S. Congressional report findings on COVID’s origins explained

The Hindu

The story so far: A U.S. Congressional committee led by Republican Brad Wenstrup has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of the spread of a virus that likely leaked from a research facility in Wuhan, China. For example, it quotes an unclassified factsheet from January 2021 published by the U.S. State Department that said: “The U.S. government has …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Manchester hosts China-UK clean energy forum

China Daily

Tang Rui, consul general of the Chinese Consulate General in Manchester, speaks at the 2024 China-UK Clean Energy Forum in Manchester on Dec 10. Cooperation in clean energy between China and the United Kingdom was discussed at the 2024 China-UK Clean Energy Forum in Manchester on Tuesday. “By doing so, we will be able to make contributions to the green …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Former national sports exec jailed

China Daily

Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the General Administration of Sport of China and former Party secretary of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a court in Hubei province on Friday for accepting bribes worth over 43.41 million yuan. Du was also fined 4 million yuan, and his illicit gains and relevant interests have …

4 weeks, 1 day ago

Manchester hosts China-UK clean energy forum

China Daily

Tang Rui, consul general of the Chinese Consulate General in Manchester, speaks at the 2024 China-UK Clean Energy Forum in Manchester on Dec 10. Cooperation in clean energy between China and the United Kingdom was discussed at the 2024 China-UK Clean Energy Forum in Manchester on Tuesday. “By doing so, we will be able to make contributions to the green …

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1 month ago

Column: With final report on pandemic, House GOP fully embraces COVID conspiracy-mongering

LA Times

Over the last two years, the Republican-dominated House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic conducted 38 interviews and depositions, held 25 hearings and meetings, and examined more than 1 million pages of documents. A declassified report issued in June 2023 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI — which oversees the entire intelligence community — found …

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1 month ago

Covid-19 Origins: Latest US Report Points To 'Wuhan Lab-Leak', Slams Mitigation Measures As Unscientific

ABP News

A US congressional subcommittee probing the origins of Covid-19 and the handling of the pandemic concluded its two-year investigation on the coronavirus pandemic on Monday. Wenstrup listed seven specific findings in his letter, including that the National Institutes of Health funded the controversial gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that Operation Warp Speed was “tremendous success”, but …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Democrats blast Republicans for ‘fueling a political agenda’ with Covid report and push back on lab leak claim

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a 60-page report released on Tuesday, Democrats on the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee …

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1 month, 1 week ago

US House Subcommittee report on COVID-19 reveals shocking details: NIH conducted virus research in Wuhan, lockdowns caused rampant fraud and corruption and more

Op India

Five years after the first case of COVID-19 was detected in China and the whole world suffered from botched lockdowns, panic and millions of deaths, a US House subcommittee has confirmed what has been suppressed by most Western governments, the mainstream media, and even leading scientific publications and medical bodies of our times. A 520-page report released by a select …

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1 month, 1 week ago

COVID-19 likely came from a lab, US committee finds

Al Jazeera

A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report released on Monday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said it had concluded that the coronavirus “likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident”. However, the US Department of Energy assessed …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Across China: Horned dinosaurs become less intelligent over time: study

China Daily

WUHAN -- A collaborative study between Chinese and US scientists has revealed that horned dinosaurs experienced a decline in intelligence, hearing and sense of smell as they evolved to larger sizes over 100 million years. Instead of the traditional method of creating a physical cast of the cranial cavity using materials like resin, the research team used computed tomography to …

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Australian Open 2025: Zheng looks to emulate Li’s Grand Slam success Down Under

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The long trauma of Covid: Lessons should be learnt

Ten cars from European and US brands you might not know are made in China

5 cosas que sabemos y que aún ignoramos sobre el COVID, 5 años después de su aparición

5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

5 cosas que sabemos y que aún ignoramos sobre el COVID, 5 años después de su aparición

China says it has shared most Covid data of any country after WHO calls for further access

WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence

COVID lab leak evidence: Biden kept in dark as spy chiefs 'silenced' FBI and scientists from briefing, report says

Behind closed doors: The spy world scientists who argued covid was a lab leak

Highlights of new quality productive forces: Low-altitude economy

Buzzwords reflect evolving dynamism

Microplastics are choking our waters. Could a sponge made of squid bones help remove them?

Concerns raised over toy kitchen use after girl burned

Republican-led U.S. Congressional report findings on COVID’s origins explained

Manchester hosts China-UK clean energy forum

Former national sports exec jailed

Manchester hosts China-UK clean energy forum

Column: With final report on pandemic, House GOP fully embraces COVID conspiracy-mongering

Covid-19 Origins: Latest US Report Points To 'Wuhan Lab-Leak', Slams Mitigation Measures As Unscientific

Democrats blast Republicans for ‘fueling a political agenda’ with Covid report and push back on lab leak claim

US House Subcommittee report on COVID-19 reveals shocking details: NIH conducted virus research in Wuhan, lockdowns caused rampant fraud and corruption and more

COVID-19 likely came from a lab, US committee finds

Across China: Horned dinosaurs become less intelligent over time: study