Former Hong Kong (HK) Home Affairs Minister Patrick Ho is being detained in New York City on charges of allegedly bribing officials in Africa. The former HK official was apparently receiving financial support for his legal fees from an unnamed Shanghai-based energy firm. Ho was arrested last November in New York City. Ho, who also ...
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook (FB), recently sat before dozens of U.S. senators and was questioned about his company’s most recent involvement in the data-misuse affair involving Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based political consultancy company that had access to the personal data of millions of FB users. Zuckerberg said: “We didn’t take a broad ...
The annual Hong Kong Flower Show, which is organized by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department to promote horticulture and the awareness of greening, is a major event. Every year, hundreds of thousands of local citizens and horticulture lovers all over the world flock to Victoria Park in Causeway Bay to appreciate the beauty of ...
Stephen Hawking died at age 76 on March 14, 2018, according to a family spokesman. Hawking was born January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England, and was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, England. He was known for his groundbreaking work on ...
How did chopsticks become the symbol of Chinese family laws? According to a Chinese belief, a country has its state laws and a family has its rules. But how did chopsticks come to symbolize these family rules? Chopsticks Let’s have a look at what could give chopsticks such importance that they eventually over time became ...
The removing of the two-term limit for China’s president has sparked a wide-ranging debate regarding the nationality and foreign assets of its leaders, raising questions about the Chinese Communist Party. Outsiders speculate that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has two major secrets that the regime seems to be withholding from the public: The disclosure of ...
In 2017, an experiment proposed by Stanford theorists found evidence for the Majorana fermion, a particle that is allegedly its own antiparticle. Stanford and University of California researchers found evidence of particles that are their own antiparticles, also known as Majorana particles. The theoretical groundwork was done by Stanford Professor Shoucheng Zhang and his group. ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) from a Chinese tech giant has defeated the country’s best player of the board game Go as China goes for AI supremacy. The artificial intelligence developed by Chinese company Tencent beat world No. 2 Go player Ke Jie last week with a 2-stone handicap, the official People’s Daily newspaper reported. AI supremacy ...
The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory or DUSEL was supposed to bring forth the world’s deepest underground laboratory and science research facility. The main motivation behind the completion of DUSEL was the study of extremely rare nuclear physics processes, some of which entail neutrino scattering and dark matter interactions. The whole point of establishing ...
The Chinese Lantern Festival is both the climax and the last day of the Chinese New Year holidays. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month, which falls on March 2 in 2018 and on February 19 in 2019. The Chinese New Year is more than just one day. It ...
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