Because of the country’s subtropical climate, the flu is a year-round epidemic in Taiwan. The annual government-sponsored vaccination program covers 25 percent of the population, which is a remarkable result compared to other countries.
President Trump recently signed a bill bringing a new foreign aid agency into life, the “U.S. International Development Finance Corp.” The newly established foreign aid agency has the authority to provide US$60 billion in loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to…
The primary way toxins in the blood are removed is through urination; however, people with kidney failure have to go through dialysis to purify their blood. Generally, routine dialysis can only occur three times a week, and it replaces a small…
People in Zambia are angry at China. Many feel that the Chinese government is trying to ensnare the African country in a debt trap, holding a death grip over their economy, politics, and resources. And a look at what Beijing…
Environmental activists rallying against the destruction of the Hambach Forest in Germany scored a win after a local court blocked energy giant RWE from felling the trees. While many lauded it as a victory for the environment, people also raised…
The following is a short story from the Paiwan people, an indigenous people of Taiwan. They are well known for their mastery of glass beads, also referred to as Paiwan glass beads.
There was a man who boasted about himself because he had read some books.
According to the 2018 edition of the Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on October 17, 2018, Taiwan remains 13th among the 140 economies being assessed around the world. Among others, Taiwan ranks 4th in the…
The Hudson-CCG symposium, hosted by and held at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. on September 26 this year, released a report: Past, Present, Future, and Policy Options. The report predicts three possible outcomes of the U.S.-China trade dispute and…
China’s actions against Tibet have consistently attracted condemnation from all nations across the world. Not only does Beijing deny Tibetans the freedom they deserve, but foreigners are restricted from entering the region. However, a new policy by the United States…
Using its multipurpose camera designed at the UA, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spied its target asteroid for the first time from about 1.4 million miles away. How did the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft take the first image of the target asteroid Bennu? UANews spoke with…
If you believe that child porn websites are usually run by pedophiles, then you are in for a shock. Law enforcement agencies have been known to run such sites in order to capture child abusers and potentials. One of the…
The United States has dominated the world over the past few decades largely because of its technological prowess. But China, the emerging power, seeks to destabilize American technological supremacy by buying out U.S. tech companies and stealing trade secrets.
Because of the country’s subtropical climate, the flu is a year-round epidemic in Taiwan. The annual government-sponsored vaccination program covers 25 percent of the population, which is a remarkable result…
President Trump recently signed a bill bringing a new foreign aid agency into life, the “U.S. International Development Finance Corp.” The newly established foreign aid agency has the authority to…
The primary way toxins in the blood are removed is through urination; however, people with kidney failure have to go through dialysis to purify their blood. Generally, routine dialysis can only…
People in Zambia are angry at China. Many feel that the Chinese government is trying to ensnare the African country in a debt trap, holding a death grip over their…
There was a man who boasted about himself because he had read some books.
The Hudson-CCG symposium, hosted by and held at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. on September 26 this year, released a report: Past, Present, Future, and Policy Options. The report…
China’s actions against Tibet have consistently attracted condemnation from all nations across the world. Not only does Beijing deny Tibetans the freedom they deserve, but foreigners are restricted from entering…
The United States has dominated the world over the past few decades largely because of its technological prowess. But China, the emerging power, seeks to destabilize American technological supremacy by…
Environmental activists rallying against the destruction of the Hambach Forest in Germany scored a win after a local court blocked energy giant RWE from felling the trees. While many lauded…
Using its multipurpose camera designed at the UA, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spied its target asteroid for the first time from about 1.4 million miles away. How did the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
Evidence of a variable but progressively drying climate coincides with a major shift in stone-tool-making abilities and the appearance of modern Homo sapiens. A progressively drying climate punctuated by variable…
Astronomers have detected radio jets belonging to a neutron star with a strong magnetic field — something not predicted by current theory, according to a new study published in Nature. The…
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (712-756) of the Tang Dynasty, there was a poor scholar by the surname of Lu who passed by Hantan, a city in Hebei Province.…
If you believe that child porn websites are usually run by pedophiles, then you are in for a shock. Law enforcement agencies have been known to run such sites in…
Fan Bingbing — China’s most famous actress — disappeared in July without a trace. What ensued was probably one of the biggest dramas Fan Bingbing has played in. Her social…
The high-end art industry is one of the few businesses in the world where the buyers tend to pride themselves on how much they spent on the product. The more…
At the height of the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation began to comprehensively investigate China’s Thousand Talents Program in order to prevent the release of advanced…
President Trump’s trade war on China seems to be working pretty well, as Beijing announced that it will be injecting US$110 billion into the domestic economy in a bid to…
A brown bear from Alaska has been dubbed the fattest bear in America by an online poll conducted on Facebook. Voters were apparently impressed by the extra fat that the…
Artists are known to pull off some crazy stunts during the auction of their paintings. But one artist may have taken things too far by having his painting self-destruct immediately…
Nicotine addiction is one of the most widespread forms of chemical dependency in the U.S. According to estimates, nearly 15 percent of American adults smoke cigarettes. To make matters worse,…
A healthy relationship starts with the word “we.” Past research by UC Riverside psychologist Megan Robbins has emphasized the power of first-person personal pronouns such as “we” and “us” in…
You’ve probably seen them, perhaps on long road trips — wind turbines with enormous, hypnotic rolling blades, harnessing the clean power of wind for conversion into electric energy. What you may…
The following is a short story from the Paiwan people, an indigenous people of Taiwan. They are well known for their mastery of glass beads, also referred to as Paiwan…
According to the 2018 edition of the Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on October 17, 2018, Taiwan remains 13th among the 140 economies being assessed…
China has been under scrutiny over the past year because of its deplorable treatment of the Uyghur Muslim community. After sending hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs to re-education camps to…
Archaeologists found the remains of a 10-year-old child with a stone inserted into his or her mouth at a 5th-century Italian cemetery. The discovery of a 10-year-old’s body at an…
Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of “fast radio bursts” — powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The…
Russia is developing a wide range of satellites to strengthen its military dominance — everything from a model capable of recording objects on the ground as small as 12 inches wide…
Apple users tend to blindly trust the company’s app store out of a belief that the applications must be secure since they are vetted by the company. However, two cases…
During the ongoing UN Disarmament Conference, the United States plans on bringing global attention to Russian and Chinese attempts to militarize space. The conference is scheduled to run for five…
Yan Shu of the Northern Song Dynasty could write essays when he was just 7 years old. The local officials called him a child prodigy. At the time, the Emperor tested…
The United States is considering export controls to tighten sales to Chinese companies whose technology is helping the Chinese government to monitor its own people in China. The massive purchase…
In what is the Vatican’s first direct response to the sexual abuse cover-up scandal against Pope Francis, an official from the religious organization has come down heavily on the ambassador…
On Oct. 4, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivered a 40-minute speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., laying out the Trump administration’s stance on China. Pence’s remarks signal…
In 1977, U.S. space agency NASA launched Voyager 2 into space to explore the vastness of our universe. Now, about four decades later, the probe is reportedly nearing interstellar space.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly trying to influence the world’s perception through a huge, ongoing propaganda campaign. A foreign journalist of China Daily, the CCP’s English media outlet,…
Two high-profile U.S. lawmakers have called for the next Winter Olympics, scheduled to be held in China, to be reassigned due to ongoing human rights abuses being committed by the…
Thousands of Internet users are being scammed out of their hard-earned money and private information on a daily basis due to a sharp rise in look-alike domains. Missing, replacing, or…
For most of human history, the monarchy with a hereditary king and his ministers governing was the default structure of all nations. With an electoral system, the populace began to…
Kangxi was one of China’s greatest emperors. He ascended the throne at the age of eight. During his reign, he suppressed the Revolt of the Three Feudatories, forced the Kingdom…
Beijing has reportedly decided to slash import duties of more than 1,500 products amid increased U.S. pressure and slowing exports. The move is aimed at opening up the domestic economy…
It was when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out that many people first heard the name of Palantir Technologies. And that is kind of surprising since the company literally offers…
After U.S. Vice President Mike Pence lauded Taiwan’s embrace of democracy as “a better path for all the Chinese people” on October 4, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen referred to Taiwan (officially…
China is increasing the number of coal plants in the country in a bid to meet its energy demands despite committing to reducing such initiatives as a part of climate…
The AI industry is largely a monopoly of a few tech giants. SingularityNET seeks to disrupt it by providing a decentralized marketplace that would allow AI developers from across the…
While parents and teachers are well aware of addictions like alcohol, drugs, and smoking that affect teenagers, many remain woefully unaware of social media addiction. According to a report by…
In 2017, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot by the name of Sophia. While the incident triggered thousands of jokes about the Middle Eastern country, given that women still…
The Chinese Communist Party has become more aggressive against religions and is forcing professionals like doctors, lawyers, and teachers to declare themselves to be atheists in several parts of the…
With India’s general elections coming up next year, social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google have joined hands with the country’s Election Commission (EC) to persist against the spread…
Modern people believe living conditions in ancient times were very primitive. However, ancient Chinese science and technology was quite advanced. Papermaking, gunpowder, and the compass were all invented in China.…
With the matter of the Rohingya Muslim persecution still to be resolved, Myanmar is seeing yet more large-scale religious violence in its land. And this time, it is the Christian…
Russian Railways has confirmed that it will be building a new rail link in partnership with Germany that will connect St. Petersburg with the German capital of Berlin. In addition,…
President Trump has delivered on his promise of setting up new trade agreements with Canada and Mexico as the three countries struck a deal on a fresh framework called the…
