Joseph Popper 
The residential area is the size of 20 football pitches and looks like Lego blocks painted in seven colours. As a residential complex it retains the name it was given as a pandemic facility – the Colourful Community. “This used to be a makeshift Covid hospital, but it was left unused after the pandemic,” said … Read more
However, certain structural reforms could help the country discover its full growth potential, Liu told a financial forum in Beijing on Saturday, according to state-backed digital media The Paper. How much employment pressure is China facing? Concerns have been mounting in China over the economy’s long-term potential amid a prolonged property market slump and local … Read more
“The inspection team believes that relevant departments working at Qaidam prefecture’s salt lake have not paid enough attention to the requirement of high-level development when it comes to managing of natural resources, water conservancy, forestry and grassland in the area and have failed to supervise [the companies that operate there],” Xinhua quoted the inspectors as … Read more
But some “wrong-intentioned” people had treated the scheme as a “cash cow”, according to a report on Economic Half Hour, a programme on state broadcaster CCTV’s finance channel. “Unscrupulous enterprises” colluded with others to generate sales of agricultural machinery and misuse subsidy funds for suspected illegal activities. The report cited the case of farmers in … Read more
China’s top graft-buster said corruption was becoming harder to detect, while a crackdown on extravagant government spending would be stepped up as the festive season approaches. The warning from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection came on the 11th anniversary of the “eight directives” to improve conduct. The policy, brought in by Chinese leader Xi … Read more
With tensions running high across the Taiwan Strait and the risk of conflict looming, the island seeks to improve medical training for treating complex injuries like those seen in conflicts including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Gaza war. “The inauguration of the tactical combat casualty care facility represents the overall upgrading of the expertise … Read more
However, the Mountain View giant is trying to fix the issues to a large extent with the December 2023 Pixel Feature drop. The new update is said to boost the CPU performance significantly. Pixel 8 performance reportedly improved Courtesy of the latest update, Google is updating the ARM Mali’s kernel driver to a more recent … Read more
GOOGLE has released a huge upgrade for millions of Android fans including some big improvements for video and photography. The tech giant described the massive feature drop as a “present” to Pixel owners for Christmas. 2 Before and after shows more detail and colour in Pixel 8 Pro videosCredit: Google Most of the changes come … Read more
We’ve heard a lot in recent years about an iPhone that ditches the Dynamic Island, placing the selfie camera and FaceID technology beneath the glass for a clean, full display. But despite a growing number of Android phones adopting the design, for the iPhone it still seems a ways off. In 2022, oft-reliable Apple analyst … Read more
Matthew Miller/ZDNET One of the features that was advertised at the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra Watch 2 launch was the support for a double-tap gesture that launched with WatchOS 10.1. Apple’s S9 chip enables this gesture capability and it can be quite useful for snoozing alarms, playing and pausing audio, and more. However, it … Read more
