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Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death across the world. While smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke have traditionally been seen as the main culprits behind the deadly disease, new research from The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia Journal tells that the causes are beyond tobacco use.Written by a team of doctors, … Read more
The ancient city of Dunhuang, which for centuries welcomed Western merchants travelling along the legendary silk road to China, could be a “perfect platform” to improve China-US relations, according to an American research professor. Neil Schmid is the first and only Western scholar hired by the Dunhuang Academy in northwest China’s Gansu province to study … Read more
Her best films as director include Siao Yu (1995), Tempting Heart (1999), 20 30 40 (2004) and Love Education (2017). Takeshi Kaneshiro (left) and Gigi Leung in a still from Chang’s film Tempting Heart (1999). Chang has often checked in with the Post during her career. Below are some of the things she has told … Read more
There’s something Aristotle said in his Poetics about the effective use of metaphor. Boiling it down, he observed that while coming up with metaphors takes genius, overstuffing your story with beautiful — but confusing — symbols doesn’t leave you with a timeless piece of art. Instead, you end up with “nothing but riddles or gibberish.” Apparently, … Read more
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