Indicators of Covid-19 activity in Hong Kong over the past four weeks have hit their highest level in a year, with 30 deaths recorded, despite an expert saying the overall impact of the virus had become milder. According to the Centre for Health Protection, the proportion of respiratory samples testing positive had increased to 13.7…
The listed requirements for a potential girlfriend laid out by an associate professor at a prestigious university in China have gone viral, with many people describing his actions as being like “selecting an imperial concubine”. Internet users have been abuzz about the criteria for a girlfriend set by a scholar surnamed Lou from the School…
Check out the article below, entitled “Earth’s Population Statistics in Perspective.” My friend sent it to me, and I researched it and found it consistent with what I found on the internet from various sources. “The Earth’s population is around 7.8 billion. For most people, it is a stunning figure. However, the resulting analysis…
A company in China has been told off by officials after it issued a notice threatening to fire its single and divorced employees if they remain single by the end of September. The Shuntian Chemical Group in eastern China’s Shandong province, which employs more than 1,200 people, announced a policy that vows to boost the…
Loring Tu has taught mathematics at Tufts University for 38 years, while quietly building a fortune worth millions from some well-placed stock investments. Now, the math professor is looking at retiring from Tufts a year from now, and he’s planning on giving much of his money to the Medford university. Tufts on Wednesday announced that…
A former university professor allegedly devised a “sham” animal experiment in Hong Kong to obtain lethal gas to murder his estranged wife by releasing it from a yoga ball inside her car nine years ago, a court retrial has heard. Prosecutors said on Thursday that Malaysian Khaw Kim Sun, 60, was behind the “deliberate” and…