understanding China through history and legends by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee
It’s ancient Greece, 430 BC or so when gods and goddesses didn’t care too much about clothes. After suffering some major damage from a Persian invasion almost 50 years before…
Some folks are saying that Donald Trump doesn’t play chess. He had moved his king to the centre and wonder why he is being attacked. Really? We don’t know exactly…
Was the Shah of Iran a ruthless dictator who violently suppressed dissidents and profited obscenely from oil exports at the expense of his own people? The Shah’s regime has been…
The Collapse of China’s Gold Trading Platforms: A Scandal of Speculation, Shadow Markets, and Suspected Official Complicity. In early 2026, China’s burgeoning “gold fever” took a dramatic turn for the…
The History of Chinese women doctors It is easy to take for granted, the fact that modern and traditional medicine are both within access to practically all people residing in…
BYD: From Battery-Powered Dreams to Evergrande on Wheels – A Comedy of Errors in Four Acts Ah, the age-old question: can the shiny electric car king of China pull a…
On 24 January 2026, the Ministry of National Defense dropped a bombshell: Zhang Youxia 张又侠 and Central Military Commission (CMC) Joint Staff chief Liu Zhenli 刘振立 were both under formal…
Rare earth elements aren’t as scarce as the name suggests, but they’re indispensable for everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to fighter jets and wind turbines. These 17 metals power…
Going Viral- Why Truth is Boring and Bizarre Wins the InternetThe internet wasn’t the real world – until more and more people started living in it. When that number swells…
4 December 2016. A bearded man armed with a Colt AR-15 assault rifle burst into the Comet Ping Pong Restaurant located at Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. Families seated at…
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