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A military drone that can cruise for 20 hours at 15,000 metres (50,000 feet) was among some missiles, warplanes and military technology shown in public at China’s biggest air show – Airshow China 2021 – on Tuesday in Zhuhai. The developer, Aerospace CH UAV Co., described the CH-6 drone as high performance, reliable, ease to […]
... written on Sep 30 2021More than 500,000 people travel across the Johor-Singapore Causeway every day, making it one of the busiest overland border crossings in the region. An average 300,000 Malaysian crossed the border daily to work in Singapore, lured by a favourable exchange rate. At today’s currency rate, it’s like earning Australian dollar (or US dollar in 2013). […]
... written on Sep 28 2021For nearly 3 years, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei Technologies, had been fighting extradition to the U.S. from Canada. Also known as Cathy Meng, she was confined to Vancouver and monitored 24/7 by private security that she pays for as part of her bail agreement. Today, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei is […]
... written on Sep 25 2021Unless you really wanted to start the world’s first nuclear war, it does not make sense to splash billions of dollars in the WMD (weapon of mass destruction). Let’s forget China for a moment. Does the U.S., the world’s military superpower, even dare to attack North Korea with conventional, let alone nuclear weapons? Kim Jong-Un […]
... written on Sep 22 2021France has learned the hard way how its allies and friends stabbed it in the back. It is so mad and furious that it has ordered the withdrawal of its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia in an apparent protest against some secret backroom deals involving the United States, Australia and Britain to supply the […]
... written on Sep 18 2021Hollywood has produced many films about rogue generals, rebels or terrorists who seized nuclear missile sites or weapons with plans to nuke Russia or the U.S., hoping to trigger retaliations and start the first nuclear world war. Over time, military superpowers have implemented fail-safe to avoid any human error or unauthorized attack that could lead […]
... written on Sep 15 2021When the U.S. decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after a 20-year war that it could not win from the beginning, many Western countries said it was a mistake. Even its closest ally, the United Kingdom, has criticised the American decision to leave Afghanistan as a “mistake” that has handed the Taliban “momentum”, not to mention a return of terror […]
... written on Sep 11 2021To speed up its vaccination program in preparation for the possibility of a second wave or the spread of variants of Covid-19, China rolled out its first single-dose vaccine in May. Developed by the Chinese military and Tianjin-based biotech company CanSino Biologics, the homegrown Convidecia vaccine was introduced in at least seven provincial-level regions, including […]
... written on Sep 08 2021Earlier last month (August), the U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has recommended that “immunocompromised” people who received the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccines should receive a third dose to improve their chances of developing an adequate antibody response. However, normal healthy-people were excluded. Subsequently, in mid-August, the U.S. FDA agreed with the […]
... written on Sep 06 2021As the U.S. military’s last C17 aircraft left Kabul airport, marking the end of a 20-year war in Afghanistan that the superpower could not win, it has also left something there – a fragile democracy. Over the last two decades, the U.S. government spent huge sums of money to create a stable democracy in the alien land, but it appears […]
... written on Sep 03 2021