In this short lesson, I walk you through five super simple Chinese characters and their meanings using my whiteboard. I say ...

In this short Mandarin lesson, I explain the real difference between 认识 rènshi and 知道 zhīdào, even though they both translate ...

SINGAPORE – The Basic Healthcare Sum will be raised from $75,500 to $79,000 for Central Provident Fund (CPF) members under 65 years old from Jan 1, 2026. Those aged 66 and above in 2026 will see no ...

WHEN JAPAN and China feuded over a set of disputed islands in 2010, China deployed a novel weapon. It imposed an unofficial ban on exports of rare earths, minerals used in everything from cars to ...

Former Tesla president described how Tesla tore down Chinese EVs to learn how they kept costs down. As the Model 3 and Model Y developed over time, they came to share around 75% of their parts and are ...

Chinese scientists have reduced the production time of dielectric energy storage capacitor components to just one second, enabling scalable, temperature-stable storage for hybrid electric vehicles, ...

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning. Most artificial-intelligence (AI) models can reliably identify patterns in data ...

The United Nations’ grim assessment of global poverty, particularly in Africa, casts a long shadow over the prospects of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Countries like Kenya, ...

Comedy Central host Jon Stewart explained the impact subsidies have on prices to independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont during a Monday appearance on “The Daily Show” while discussing the ...

A TOP civic leader has lauded the plan of the Department of Education (DepEd) to include lessons on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) in the basic education curriculum as “a wise and patriotic step toward ...

You’re known as the mastermind behind Mission Chinese Food, from its first iteration as a 2010 San Francisco pop-up to the versions you opened in New York. The ...

Researchers in China have conducted the most thorough search yet for alien radio signals in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, which may harbor potentially Earth-like planets. When you purchase through ...