Taipei (AFP) June 4, 2021 More than one million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine donated by Japan arrived in Taiwan on Friday, as the island struggles to secure jabs and accuses China of interference. The move stirred anger in Beijing, which views democratic and self-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and works to keep the island diplomatically isolated. “We have received requests from various … Continue reading Japan donates more than 1 million Covid-19 jabs to Taiwan

E-commerce merchants are literally at the mercy of the digital checkout systems tied to their web stores. For retailers, what happens on the other side of the “pay” button is critical to avoiding denied approvals. Online payment service provider Credorax peeled back the curtain for the E-Commerce Times to reveal the ins and outs of what happens behind the pay button.http://dlvr.it/S16ndN Continue reading The Next Level of E-Commerce Payment Processing

Washington DC (UPI) Jun 2, 2021 Over the past 1.2 million years, marine life repeatedly disappeared from large swaths of the North Pacific. According to a new survey of Bering Sea sediment cores – the results of which were published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances – ancient periods of warming regularly produced dead zones in the northern half of the Pacific Ocean. The analysis … Continue reading Ancient warming fueled massive marine dead zones in North Pacific

Beijing (AFP) June 3, 2021 Ground down by the sapping realities of modern city life, China’s youth are “lying flat”, the latest buzzword for those tapping out of a culture of endless work with little reward. With growing inequality and rising costs of living nudging traditional markers of success out of reach, some young people are choosing to do the bare minimum at work, dialling … Continue reading China’s disenchanted youth ‘lie flat’ to cope with modern life

The U.S. government is moving at a brisk pace to launch information technology projects authorized by the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Federal information technology providers are looking for the chance to participate in contracts flowing from the $1 billion allocated by the plan to the government’s Technology Modernization Fund.http://dlvr.it/S13Hqf Continue reading Administration Takes Aggressive Approach to Stimulate Tech Investments

Sydney (AFP) June 1, 2021 The new head of the OECD is an Australian former minister born in Belgium known as a formidable backstage operator but also shadowed by a controversial record on climate change. Australia’s longest-serving finance minister, 50-year-old Mathias Cormann was appointed head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in March and took over on Tuesday. He is the first personhttp://dlvr.it/S0zSp4 Continue reading New OECD chief: Aussie powerbroker facing climate questions

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 02, 2021 Instead of chasing storms, NASA researchers are using new weather prediction methods to see storms ahead of time. By studying lightning, the team of scientists is working to develop new ways to help forecast the intensity of incoming hurricanes. Typically, an increase in lightning within the storm signals that the storm is likely to strengthen. But sometimes even weakening … Continue reading NASA scientists use lightning to help predict hurricane intensity

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 02, 2021 A catastrophic drop in atmospheric ozone levels around the tropics is likely to have contributed to a bottleneck in the human population around 60 to 100,000 years ago, an international research team has suggested. The ozone loss, triggered by the eruption of the Toba supervolcano located in present-day Indonesia, might solve an evolutionary puzzle that scientists have been … Continue reading Ancient volcanic eruption destroyed the ozone layer

Bangkok (AFP) June 1, 2021 Three Myanmar journalists who illegally crossed into Thailand to flee a military crackdown have been fined and could face deportation, a member of their legal team said Tuesday, warning the trio’s lives will be in danger if they are sent home. The journalists, who worked for the Democratic Voice of Burma news website, were arrested along with two Myanmar activists … Continue reading Myanmar journalists who fled to Thailand fined, face deportation: lawyer

Beijing (AFP) June 2, 2021 China wants its women to have more children but for many young people, the government’s big promises of support mean little because of soaring living costs and changing mindsets about families. On Monday, the world’s most populous nation further relaxed its strict family planning controls, allowing couples to have three children after just 12 million Chinese were born last year … Continue reading No, thanks, say young Chinese to a third child