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AFP, news.com.au June 2, 2021 2:25am China has reported the world’s first human infection of the H10N3 bird flu strain but said the risk of it spreading widely among people was low. A 41-year-old man was admitted to hospital with fever symptoms in the eastern city of Zhenjiang on April…

Website of the Year World 1 Jun, 2021 08:45 AMQuick Read A man in eastern China has contracted the world's first reported human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu. Photo / Wolfgang Mennel, Unsplash A man in eastern China has contracted what might be the world's first human…

In this long exposure photo, a Long March 7 rocket climbs into the sky over the Wenchang spaceport on Hainan Island with the Tianzhou 2 cargo ship. Credit: Xinhua China’s robotic Tianzhou 2 cargo ship launched Saturday on top of a Long March 7 rocket and docked with the core…

With focus on the COVID-19 crisis, BRICS's (a grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) foreign ministers will meet on Tuesday virtually at 4 pm IST. The meeting is being hosted by India as the chair of the grouping this year. Present in the meeting with be India's External Affairs Minister…

Weekly Roundup: Billionaire Ray Dalio is a Bitcoin Hodler, Ethereum devs update community on Beacon Chain progress Amid growing regulatory uncertainty in China, Bitcoin miners have begun preparing their exit strategy from the country. While some are looking to migrate to crypto-friendly regions, others have put up their mining rigs…

Home News Spaceflight China's new space station module is about to get its first robotic visitor.  The Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on China's Hainan Island today (May 29), rising off the pad atop a Long March 7 rocket at 8:55 a.m. EDT (1255 GMT; 8:55…

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(Bloomberg) — China should take a gradual approach pulling back financing to high-emission industries in order to avoid credit risks, state bank chiefs said Saturday. Financial institutions need to support coal and steel companies to upgrade their technology to reduce emissions, even as they stop financing any further expansion of…

Updated 1 hour ago · Published on 28 May 2021 11:59PM · World Health Organisation says further studies will be needed in a range of areas, including on the early detection of cases and clusters, and the potential roles of animal markets, transmission via the food chain and the laboratory…

GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Britain are stepping up calls for the World Health Organization to take a deeper look into the possible origins of COVID-19, including a new visit to China where the first human infections were…Read More