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China hails new helicopter engine as a milestone for its aviation ambitions
Beijing is doubling down on efforts to produce home-grown aircraft amid a US push to restrict sales of jet engine technology ...
As Japan’s birth rate falls to a record low, a ‘critical’ demographic crisis unfolds
Record-low births and an ageing population are driving Japan to implement urgent measures to encourage marriage and boost ...
David Hayes ‘thrilled’ as Jockey Club confirms it has secured The Everest slot for Ka Ying Rising
It is full steam ahead to the Group One The Everest (1,200m) for a “thrilled” David Hayes and Ka Ying Rising after the Hong ...
Why go to the cinema? ‘Shared reality’ experience makes viewers feel they’re in the movie
Pick a cocktail – blue or red, of course – sit back and watch and hear The Matrix unspool around and above you. This is cinema reinvented.
Trump’s tariffs to squeeze Vietnam even if it lifts all duties on US goods: Lutnick
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said responding in kind to Hanoi ‘would be the silliest thing we could do’.
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Russia identifies, warns university teachers over British Council ‘collaboration’
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) accused British intelligence on Thursday of using the British Council as cover to ...
Chinese study of feather fossils reveals how birds beat dinosaurs in conquering the sky
Analysis of feathers trapped in amber sheds new light on evolutionary path that led to early birds’ ability to fly.
Where did well-heeled Hongkongers escape the summer heat in the years preceding mass tourism?
The Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), and more specifically, the island of Java, was the premier interwar summer destination of choice for those Hongkongers able to afford leisure travel.