China is resuming group tours to 20 countries from February 6, but Australia is not on the destination list. Zhang Cheng, owner of Great Wall Travel Services in Melbourne, believes it is retaliatio
Month: January 2023
Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Climate catastrophe. International news to watch in 2023
A year ago, few predicted Russian President Vladimir Putin would launch an all-out invasion of Ukraine (and that Ukraine would successfully repel it). Or that China would β almost overnight, amid
NASA details plans for putting base on moon
NASA’s plan to return to the moon in 2024 could be in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nonetheless, the space agency has put forth plans on how it will build a base on the lunar surf
The South Korean drag queen raising LGBT awareness
“When I first tried drag, I didn’t know what it would be like and how into it I would be. It gave me some sort of empowerment and liberation,” says Heezy Yang. Yang has been perfo
PH’s biggest passenger port terminal nears completion
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro β The country’s biggest passenger terminal building (PTB) of the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) in Barangay San Antonio here is now 98 percent complete and
The future direction of Chinese policies
China is currently focused on realizing the Second Centenary Goal of becoming a great modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts thr
How Defense News and Military Times are covering the invasion of Ukraine
As soon as Russia launched its invasion into Ukraine last week, sparking international outrage and condemnations from democratic nations around the world, Defense News and Military Times reporters
A colossal meteorite struck Mars. Then NASA made an even bigger discovery.
It wasn’t the average marsquake that the Insight Mars lander heard rip-roaring through the red planet’s ground last Christmas Eve. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter apparently fo
News: Paulo Bento to depart as manager of South Korean national team
Paulo Bento will not renew his contract as manager of the South Korean national team, the Portuguese has confirmed. Bento’s last match in charge was, therefore, the 4-1 2022 FIFA World Cup Qa
Chinese police parade suspected Covid rule-breakers through streets
Armed police in Jingxi, in southern China, have paraded four alleged violators of Covid rules through the streets, state media reported, a practice that was banned but which has resurfaced in the s