China has the largest programme in the world for cloud seeding. Hubei province in central China will use silver iodide rods to seed clouds and induce rainfall. China’s largest hydropower project, will raise water discharges by 500 million cubic meters. As large portions of the country experience the greatest heat wave on record and the … Read more
A fighter jet crashed in central China’s Hubei province of Xiangyang, killing one person and injuring two others. Pilot parachuted to safety and was taken to hospital with the other injured. The Chinese civil aviation authority did not immediately determine the cause of the event. A fighter jet crashed in central China on Thursday, killing … Read more
BEIJING: Pakistan and China signed an agreement to establish a sister-province relationship between Sindh and Hubei provinces to promote pragmatic cooperation in education, science and technology, technical and vocational training and people to people exchanges. Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Moin-ul-Haque and Wang Zhonglin, Governor of Hubei Provincial People’s Government signed the agreement during a meeting … Read more
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned that coronavirus outbreak is set to trim global and developing Asia’s economic growth this year. Reuters has reported that outbreak could cut global gross domestic product by 0.1 to 0.4%. While economic growth in China and developing Asia, excluding China, could trimmed by 0.3 to 1.7% and 0.2 to 0.5%, … Read more
Micro-blogging Site Twitter bans hateful content that targets people for their disease of disability. As per details, Twitter bans posts that “dehumanise” people. Twitter Bans Posts that promotes Hateful Content. This step is taken happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus. The company detailed its policy to Reuters. Twitter briefed … Read more
Death toll from the outbreak in mainland China reached 2,236 the national health commission reported on Friday. Beijing also reported 889 new confirmed cases of the disease during the same period, up from 349 cases the previous day, reversing three days of decline. At least 411 of the new cases were from Hubei, the epicentre … Read more
