Sri Lanka’s new Chinese Ambassador, Wei Huaxiang, met VIII Executive President Ranil Wickremesinghe at his political office on Flower Road in Colombo, in an engagement between China’s new diplomatic representative and the
By about 2030, 6G will be commercially available in areas where infrastructure conditions are met, including China, according to panelists at a Saturday forum on 6G innovation and development, which ran parallel
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China’s Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite, sent into space in January this year, has captured its first in-orbit detection images, which were presented at a parallel forum of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum
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Transcending geographical borders, an Indian donor’s heart has now given a new life to a teenager who hails from Pakistan. The heart transplant, which was held in a Chennai hospital, proved to
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On Friday in Colombo, Alexis Taylor, Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), together with U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung, met with Sri Lankan President
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In a significant move aimed at revitalizing the operations of the Chinese-built Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, the Sri Lankan Cabinet has greenlit the transfer of management rights to two prominent entities from
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Over 2 million international tourists have visited the Philippines since January this year, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said Thursday. Citing data from the Department of Tourism (DOT), the PCO said that
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The number of people facing acute food insecurity rose to some 282 million in 2023, the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. This is an increase of
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Five hundred representatives from movements, unions, and parties hailing from countries across the world gathered in Caracas, Venezuela, for the World Gathering for a Social Alternative. The meeting, organized by the Simón
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All classes at Columbia University went virtual starting on Monday as divisive demonstrations and debates around the Israel-Hamas conflict heated up on campus recently. The university’s president Minouche Shafik urged relevant parties
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Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, head of the Israel Defense Forces’s Military Intelligence Directorate, has tendered his resignation. This decision comes in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas onslaught, a devastating attack
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Standing inside his destroyed mud house and thinking about how to cope with the problems arising out of the destructive flood, the impoverished Qand Agha lamented that rebuilding his house requires at
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Ongoing fighting in Sudan threatens to exacerbate food insecurity across the country, a United Nations (UN) official has said, calling for urgent agricultural support to Sudan. “The scale and severity of hunger
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Astronomers have found BH3 is by far the heaviest known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, 33 times the mass of the Sun. An international research team found the black
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Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has retained its position as the world’s busiest cargo airport in 2023 in terms of total cargo volume, the 13th time since 2010, provisional figures released by
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, calling on the two sides to carry forward the distinctive characteristics of mutual
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