Source:technologyrivew.comHuman intelligence is one of evolution’s most consequential inventions. It is the result of a sprint that started millions of years ago, leading to ever bigger brains and new abilities. Eventually, humans stood upright, took up the plow, and created civilization, while our primate cousins stayed in the trees.Now scientists in southern China report that they’ve tried to narrow the evolutionary gap, creating several transgenic macaque monkeys with extra copies of a huma

Source:npr.orgCreated by Chinese programmers, 996.ICU has become a popular repository of workers' rights campaign materials on the website GitHub. The name is a play on a refrain that long work hours of 9 to 9, six days a week, could send tech workers to the intensive care unit. 996.ICU/Screenshot by NPR China is remarkably successful at scrubbing its Internet of social dissent. Twitter and Facebook have been blocked ever since deadly ethnic riots in 2009. Chinese social media pla

Source:cnbc.comAs African swine fever continues to ravage China’s hog herd, the impact may be far worse than Beijing is conceding. The crisis could lead to significant shortages of the country’s staple meat and drive up global prices of protein, experts said. The situation also increasing fear among U.S. pork producers of spreading contagion.The June lean hog futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is up more than 50% in the past month as speculators wager that China’s outbreak an

Source:Globaltimes.cnChina is planning to mobilize more than 10 million young volunteers to help promote cultural, technological and medical development in rural areas by 2020, a move local officials said would help revitalize rural areas that are suffering from an outflow of talented and young workers.These young volunteers will be sent to rural areas, especially old revolutionary base areas, regions of extreme poverty and areas where ethnic minority groups live to promote local development and

Source:techinasia.comIn this week’s news on China’s widespread face recognition tech, Chinese authorities have found a new target in need of constant surveillance: unruly tourists.City park authorities in Beijing are considering installing facial recognition cameras in the city’s travel hotspots and blacklisting bad-mannered tourists. Uncivilized tourists would be punished by restricting ticket purchases for museums, parks and other tourist spots, state media has reported.The country has seen

Source: amp.dw.comMany Africans are worried by the increasing presence of China on the continent. But how much is China really involved? A DW team traveled to Zambia to investigate how China has taken control of key infrastructure.Mandarin can be heard in every corner of Lusaka's Kenneth Kaunda airport, as it's spoken by nearly half of the passengers passing through the building.Outside thecomplex, a massivebillboard promoting the Chinese construction conglomerateJiangxi International we

Source: beincrypto.comChina has included cryptocurrency mining on its list of industries that it wishes to restrict or eliminate.The ‘list’ was composed by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and cites these problem industries for not complying with the laws and regulations of the state, for being unsafe, or wasting national resources.This move is likely due in reaction to the boom and subsequent bust that the cryptocurrency market went through between 2017 and 2018. During t

Source: scmp.comTwo days before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang boarded the flight from Beijing for Brussels to attend Tuesday’s annual summit with European Union leaders, his team of diplomats was desperate.They were struggling to get their EU counterparts back to the table to agree on a joint statement to be released at the end of the meeting between Li and the two EU leaders: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk.The two sides were able to dr

Source: cnn.comA Chinese woman, nicknamed the 'Queen of Ivory' and thought to be one of Africa's most notorious traffickers, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.On Tuesday, a Tanzanian court found Yang Feng Glan, 70, guilty of smuggling 860 elephant tusks that authorities say are worth $6.45 million.Yang Feng Glan, was sentenced along with her Tanzanian co-accused Salivius Francis Matembo and Manase Julius Philemon.They were also sentenced to an additional two years in prison un

In 2016 Mr Santoro arranged a one-on-one meeting for Mr Huang with then-immigration minister Peter Dutton.Despite meeting inside the private suite of a Chinese restaurant in Sydney in 2016 — access to one of the most powerful ministers in the Turnbull government that few others could have obtained — Mr Huang ultimately failed in his citizenship bid after ASIO objected to his links to the Chinese Communist Party.An investigation by Four Corners, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald can also reveal