Expert calls for a change in approach after state media report alleged county officials misreported the size of rice fields to meet targets
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The remarks came after a state media investigation alleged that officials in central China had inflated the size of mandatory rice crops
Two people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting Sunday evening during a food festival at an events complex near the Space Needle in Seattle, a city fire department spokesperson said.
Police were investigating the shooting and urged people to avoid the area just northwest of downtown.
The gunfire erupted around 6pm at the Seattle Centre during the Bite of Seattle festival.
Harborview Medical Centre spokesperson Susan Gregg said the hospital admitted four victims including a
The address, known locally as the Sona, opens the final two years of Marcos’ presidency. Analysts say his administration must show tangible results from its investigation into the alleged billions of pesos in discrepancies relating to flood-control
Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo has stepped down from his role, Indonesia’s State Secretariat Minister Prasetyo Hadi said on Monday, a surprise move analysts said could rattle investors worried about the central bank’s independence and the country’s fiscal management.
President Prabowo Subianto has accepted Warjiyo’s resignation, the minister said ahead of the opening of financial markets in Jakarta.
Destry Damayanti, a senior deputy governor at BI, has been appointed as interim governor. Destry said that Warjiyo had stepped down for personal reasons.
The fabric can clean and repair itself, opening the door to recyclable fashion and biodegradable packaging
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Chinese scientists have developed a way to create clothing and textiles from a fungus that can self-clean and regenerate.
The fabric can also be customised – for example to add colour or protect the wearer from ultraviolet (UV) rays – with the help of other microorganisms, according to a study published on Friday.
Shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, rose 472 per cent on their Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market capitalisation of 3.31 trillion yuan (US$489 billion).
CXMT has become the most valuable company listed on the mainland Chinese market.
The size of the closely watched offering, up to 66.6 billion yuan, is set to surpass the 53.2 billion
Alice Wu is a political consultant and a former associate director of the Asia Pacific Media Network at UCLA.
Lawmaker Stanley Ng Chau-pei called it a “groundbreaking opportunity” for legislators to study and deepen their understanding
A former security guard from northeastern China has successfully secured a spot in a postgraduate programme at the prestigious Tsinghua University after an impressive eight attempts and is now ambitiously pursuing a PhD at Harvard.
Yang Xiao, 31, hailing from Shenyang in Liaoning province, has harboured the dream of attending Tsinghua since childhood, as reported by the mainland media outlet Jiupai News.
After sitting for the national college entrance examination, or gaokao , in 2013, he was accepted into the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where his
