Once again, scientists seem to be fiercely debating whether or not global warming has slowed down during the 2000s. In fact, reports of a global warming "hiatus" triggered the debate between scientists and climate change skeptics in 2013, which was eventually restrained last year itself. Interestingly, the subject is back in circulation again.
The conviction of Peter Liang, a Chinese-American and former police officer in New York who shot an unarmed black man, has led to protests from Asian-Americans in the US. However, some question whether his conviction was influenced by his race.
Johnson & Johnson, the giant health care company, was ordered to pay $72 million to the family of Jackie Fox who died of ovarian cancer. Prior to her death last year, she filed a case against the company, claiming that the J&J's talcum powder had caused her illness.
In a new breakthrough in the field of genetic engineering, Chinese scientists at Nanjing Medical University used stem cells from mice to create functioning sperm cells, which when injected into egg cells produced fertile offspring.
A Chinese national was among 23 people killed when an aircraft of Tara Airlines crashed in central Nepal, according a spokesman from the airline.
Amid the rush to get pregnant a second time after the government lifted the one-child policy, Chinese women, particularly mothers, are finding it harder to find work, according to an article by China Daily.
Beijing’s latest plan to curb air pollution by opening new air corridors will not bring the capital’s smog to neighboring cities, said experts.
Everything that happens to Asian-Americans may be likened to a referendum on the state of the people, according to an article written for the New York Times by Jay Caspian Kang.
Anything that drops from the sky, especially if it is a UFO or a meteor, will surely be reported on print and broadcast. However, there is one case that never made it to headlines, at least not until now. On Feb. 6, a massive meteor crashed into earth and exploded but regardless of how odd it may be, no one noticed the incident.
The Belt and Road Initiative has only been around for over two years, but it has already paved the way for regional connectivity and cooperation in 35 countries and regions, a top Chinese commerce official said on Tuesday, Feb. 23, China Daily reported.
Some Chinese nationals who visited the Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming, China on Feb. 12 are in hot water after some of its peacocks have died. Zoo officials have confirmed the deaths of the two birds and blamed "violent behavior" of the tourists for what happened.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is seriously looking into claims made in court by former officer Peter Liang and his partner that the reason both of them were not able to perform CPR on Akai Gurley was because they were not trained adequately by the department, according to an article published on capitalnewyork.com.
NASA recently declassified audio files that reveal Apollo 10 astronauts heard a mysterious music while their spacecraft passed around the far side of the moon in May 1969.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to visit the United States this week, a move which is seen to boost "pragmatic cooperation," according to China Daily.
A document has been released by the government to solve traffic woes in several cities across China, according to an article by the Global Times. Local governments are advised to remove walls that separate gated residential areas from the rest of the city.
