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Facebook, Google Join Hands Building Subsea Cable Infrastructure in Asia-Pacific
- 17 August 2021
Two Silicon Valley giants - Google and Facebook - announced their cooperation in building a new subsea cable system by 2024 to improve internet connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region, reported The Straits Times on Monday 16 August. Known as Apricot, this large-scale infrastructure project will link Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It will help serve the growi...
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US to Test World’s First Highway with In-built Electric Vehicle Charging
- 11 August 2021
Indiana’s Department of Transportation (Indot), Purdue University, and German startup Magment are working to create the world’s first concrete highway that can wirelessly charge the electric vehicles that drive on it, reported GCR. Magnetisable concrete will be tested and analysed at a stretch of road at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus. This first trial will allow engineers to monitor the roa...
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Construction begins on US$17-billion nuclear power plant in China
- 9 August 2021
China National Nuclear Power has started the construction on its US$17-billion project of installing two Russian-designed reactors at the Xudabao nuclear power station in Liaoning Province, northeast China, reported GCR on 6 August. Xudabao 3 is a cooperation between China and Russian. Under the agreement signed in 2018, Rosatom’s subsidiary Atomstroyexport would provide two of its flagship rea...
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China Plans to Build World’s First Waterless Nuclear Reactor
- 28 July 2021
Chinese researchers have unveiled the world’s first thorium-fuelled commercial reactor that will not require water for cooling. This demonstrates a big breakthrough in the Chinese power sector, which today is dependent on coal-fired power plants. Named the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor, the project was begun in 2011. To date, researchers are in the stage of building a 2MW prototype, which is set ...
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Vietnam Starts Rail Freight to Europe
- 22 July 2021
Vietnam Railways started a rail freight service from Hanoi to Belgium for the first time on 20 July through the Asia-Europe rail track, reported Vietnam News. The freight train carried 23 containers with such goods as textiles, leather and footwear. The train departed from Yen Vien station in Ha Noi to Zhenzhou city in China’s Henan province, and later connected to the Asia Europe train pass...
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US Researchers Claim China Building Over 100 ‘Nuclear’ Missile Silos in Desert
- 13 July 2021
US researchers have claimed that China is building more than 100 missile silos in the desert of Gansu province based on analysis of satellite images, which could lead to the expansion of China's nuclear capabilities, reported the Guardian recently. According to the satellite images obtained by the researchers of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, there are at least 119 silos ...
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Dubai Breaks Another Record After Opening World’s Deepest Pool with Underwater City
- 10 July 2021
Besides being the home of the world's tallest skyscraper and the world's largest mall, Dubai has broken another recording with the opening of the world’s deepest drive pool along with a huge underwater city, reported CNN. The pool is 60 metres deep and has stolen the record from Poland's Deepspot, which has a depth of over 45 meters. The project was awarded by Guinness as the "Deepest swimming ...
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Vietnam’s GDP in H1 Increases 5.6%, Driven by Industry & Construction Boom
- 2 July 2021
Vietnam saw a year-on-year GDP growth of 5.64% in the first half of 2021, three times higher compared to the same period last year, thanks to the industry and construction boom as the main driving factor, reported Xinhua. According to the General Statistics Office on 29 June, the growth was driven by sectors such as the industry and construction sector that grew by 8.36%; agriculture, forestry ...
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China Starts World’s Second Largest Baihetan Hydropower Dam Project
- 1 July 2021
On Monday 28 June, China began operating the world's second largest Baihetan hydropower station on the upstream branch of China's Yangtze River, reported Reuters. The Baihetan dam is 948 feet tall and is located on China’s longest river at the border between the southwestern provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan. In the first stage, two 1-gigawatt (GW) turbines will start operating after a three-d...
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China’s Guangzhou City to Build Massive International Quarantine Complex
- 29 June 2021
Guangzhou city in China is planning to build a massive quarantine complex for international travellers and local residents from high-risk areas as local hotels are not suitable to stop the spread of the new Delta variant, report SCMP. Leading respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan brought this up after seeing the high level of transmissibility of the new Delta variant in the city. The centre will ...
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