48 h. ago Louvre jewels may be irrecoverable as French police race against time

Crime gangs around Europe were increasingly robbing valuable jewels and gold from cash-needy museums like the Louvre, but while law enforcement often caught thieves, they struggled to recover the priceless goods, police and art experts have said. Only a small pool of criminals would be capable of such a job as Sunday’s audacious robbery in Paris and may already be known to police, the specialists said. But the objects themselves could be quickly broken down into component parts and sold on. “If...

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50 h. ago Chinese coastguard patrols reefs controlled by Vietnam in South China Sea

The Chinese coastguard patrolled around disputed sites controlled by Vietnam in the South China Sea last week, vessel tracking information shows. Three patrol ships left a Chinese base on Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands on Thursday and circled around a series of land features – some of which Vietnam has built facilities on – before returning to the reef on Saturday, according to Automatic Identification System data. The purpose of the patrol by the coastguard vessels – identified by the...

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6 d. ago Top scientist Hu Ye quits US for China after cuts to US$8 million in grants

A top biomedical scientist has left the United States for China following cuts to US$8.3 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that funded his research projects. After studying and working in the US for 22 years, Hu “Tony” Ye, who held the prestigious chair professor position at Tulane University in New Orleans, left to take on the role of founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at his alma mater, Tsinghua University. Hu has long focused on the rapid...

Economics

6 d. ago Top scientist Hu Ye quits US for China after giving up millions in funding

A top biomedical scientist has left the United States for China after giving up millions of dollars in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After studying and working in the US for 22 years, Hu “Tony” Ye, who held the prestigious chair professor position at Tulane University in New Orleans, left to take on the role of founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at his alma mater, Tsinghua University. Hu has long focused on the rapid detection of viruses,...

Science

1 week ago Intelligence on China embassy threat left out of official review

Intelligence on China embassy threat left out of official review  The Telegraph

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1 week ago The NBA never left China, says basketball superstar Yao Ming

The NBA never left China, says basketball superstar Yao Ming  MSN

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2 w. ago China's EV Transition Has Left Car Dealers Struggling To Make Profits Amid Price War, Overcapacity

China's EV Transition Has Left Car Dealers Struggling To Make Profits Amid Price War, Overcapacity  Benzinga

Economics

2 w. ago Ohio soybean farmers left high and dry as Trump’s tariff tornado obliterates China market

Ohio soybean farmers left high and dry as Trump’s tariff tornado obliterates China market  Cleveland.com

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2 w. ago China Open champion Anisimova pulls out of Wuhan with left calf injury

China Open champion Anisimova pulls out of Wuhan with left calf injury  WTA Tennis

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2 w. ago How China was ready for Super Typhoon Ragasa – and what still needs to be done

Super Typhoon Ragasa may have been the biggest storm of its kind in the world this year, but when it made landfall in mainland China last month, it left no fatalities in its wake. Rewind to 2018 when Mangkhut, the last super typhoon to hit Guangdong province, struck and at least four people were killed in southern China. Typhoon Hato also left nine dead in Guangdong in 2017, and Typhoon Fanapi caused 34 deaths in the coastal province in 2010. The contrast is even sharper when compared with the...

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3 w. ago Captain alerts ground staff after China traveller recalls leaving home stove on

A Chinese man who forgot to turn off the gas stove at home only remembered it while he was on a flight, but fortunately, the flight crew acted swiftly to avert a potential disaster. The passenger, identified as Wang, on a Spring Airlines flight from Shanghai to Singapore urgently sought assistance from the crew members mid-air, as reported by the Shanghai media outlet Xinmin Evening News recently. Wang recounted that before leaving home, he had forgotten to turn off the stove. By the time he...

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3 w. ago 50 years on, has China left Europe behind in the race for a hi

This year marks half a century of formal diplomatic relations between China and the European Union as well as the 25th anniversary of the founding of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. As part of a series of reports examining ties between the two powers, Meredith Chen and Nora Mankel look at how China flipped the technology script with Europe. In 1978, as China was emerging from the ruins of the Cultural Revolution, Beijing sent a high-powered delegation on a whirlwind 36-day...

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3 w. ago China girl’s lost diary becomes legendary tourist message book in New Zealand

A girl from southern China accidentally left her diary notebook at a tourist hotspot in New Zealand, only for it to become an unofficial guestbook for people from around the world to sign. Six-year-old Zi Handong from Shenzhen went on a family trip to Lake Tekapo with her family in January. On the first page of her blue-coloured diary, she wrote about her experience in Chinese characters and pinyin. “Today, my mum, dad, brother and grandma went on a jet boat. I thought it was one of those...

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3 w. ago Without China trade, American soybean farmers are left with limited options to sell their grain

Without China trade, American soybean farmers are left with limited options to sell their grain  KCUR

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