Day: March 20, 2024

On March 10, a 13-year-old from a junior high school in Handan city, in China’s northern Hebei province, went missing. A day later, his body was found in an abandoned vegetable shed with injuries to his head and back. The police acted quickly. On the same day, they detained three of the victim’s classmates on suspicion of murder. The case has shocked the public. The three students, aged between 12 and 14, may be the youngest murder suspects China has seen in a long time. A police investigation is ongoing,…

BDNF was initially identified in the brain, where it is vital for functions such as forming memories, moods, and the growth of neurons. Scientists later realised it could also be found in tissues other than the central nervous system – the brain and spinal cord – but its roles elsewhere were not clear. The mice underwent treadmill sessions over a four-week period for the study. Photo: Handout Chan Chi-bun, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biological Sciences, led the study looking at the protein’s functions…

Chen also serves as chairman of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, a 744-member trade group. A semiconductor wafer on display at Semicon China. Photo: Bloomberg “China’s semiconductor market belongs to the world, while the world’s semiconductor market also belongs to Chinese companies,” Chan said. He added that speeches made previously by Huang convinced him about the future of the global semiconductor market, which Semicon China projected will top US$1 trillion by 2030 on the back of AI-related chip demand. Nvidia developed three new data-centre graphics processing units – the H20,…

China’s southern tech hub saw a big rise in exports during the first two months of the year, buoyed by electric-vehicle demand and an influx of deals with countries included in the Belt and Road Initiative. And analysts say the promising trade figures reported by Shenzhen could bode well for the central government’s goal of growing China’s economy by around 5 per cent this year while fending off geopolitical obstacles and Western tech curbs. The value of goods shipped from the city during the two-month period reached 441.4 billion yuan…

“I’ve articulated the requirement … which is a 360-degree, integrated air-and-missile defence capability for Guam that would protect our citizens and protect the forces that we need, and that includes ballistic, hypersonic and cruise-missile threats.” The Pentagon is asking Congress for some US$400 million to help defend the US territory, which would likely play a key role in any invasion of Taiwan. Guam is located about 1,800 miles (3,000km) from mainland China’s Fujian province. In addition, the US Army said it needed US$7.2 billion to upgrade Guam’s crumbling infrastructure and…