China has completed the maritime safety system for the approaches to the Pinglu Canal, officially releasing its nautical map and fully installing aids to navigation along the canal’s seaward stretch on Monday,
by Durga Velayudham In Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, the traces of Hui Ka Yan’s extraordinary rise and fall can be found in the unfinished buildings, abandoned construction sites and apartment
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Countries have restored 124.3 million hectares of degraded land under United Nations-backed efforts, an area roughly twice the size of France, but the figure represents only 10.4% of their collective national restoration
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An analysis of communism delivered by a naked pop star while receiving a massage may sound like an unlikely scene from a music documentary. Yet it captures something essential about Wham!’s extraordinary
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Large language models are increasingly capable of rapidly mining data and analysing weapons performance, tasks that previously required substantial time and effort from human analysts. But engineers involved in the development of
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by Our Correspondent in Hong Kong The decision by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to examine the legal and political questions surrounding an independent Tamil
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When Wei Huaxiang, the new Chinese Ambassador, arrived in Sri Lanka to assume duties, a delegation from the China Communications Construction Company met President Anura. Reports stated that the delegation discussed the
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The contested islands of the South China Sea could one day become autonomous defensive strongholds, protected not primarily by soldiers but by coordinated fleets of machines operating across the air, sea and
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For years, offshore trusts offered China’s wealthiest individuals a sophisticated way to protect assets, plan succession and, in some cases, reduce their tax exposure. Now, that once-familiar route into the grey zones
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A special discussion on plans to introduce a passenger drone service in Sri Lanka was held at the premises of the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation
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China has unveiled a new five-year plan for its oil and gas sector that combines a drive to reach peak oil consumption with expanded domestic production, deeper drilling, larger energy reserves and
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