Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Nibbling cats and Covid masks: First look at CES tech show

Covid mask

AS VEGAS: A finger-nibbling plush cat and a cooling fan for the ever-present anti-Covid mask: the CES tech show in Las Vegas on Monday offered a glimpse of the offerings at this year’s meet-up. CES, one of the world’s largest trade fairs, is pushing ahead with an in-person edition after being online-only last year due to the … Read more

RCEP to catalyse sustainable economic recovery: Asean official

RCEP

JAKARTA: The entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement will open up opportunities to catalyse the expansion of regional trade and investment much needed for economic recovery, amid Covid-19, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) secretary general Dato Lim Jock Hoi said. The Asean Secretariat announced in November that the RCEP … Read more

Egypt’s exports jump 24.5% to $25.9 billion in 10 months

Egypt’s exports

CAIRO: Egypt’s exports saw an increase of 24.5 per cent in the ten months to October 2021 as a result of new measures put in place to stimulate export trade, Arab News reported. Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry, Nevin Gamea, said that the measures helped Egyptian exports rise during the first ten months of 2021, reaching … Read more

China’s central bank cuts relending rates for agriculture, small firms

China’s central bank

BEIJING: China’s central bank on Tuesday announced that it has decided to lower relending rates for the agriculture sector and small enterprises by 0.25 percentage points starting from December 7. After the reduction, the interest rates of three-month reloans supporting the development of agriculture and small firms stood at 1.7 per cent, six-month at 1.9 … Read more

A small island in Corsica made from oyster shells

A small island in Corsica made from oyster shells

To the east, near the British Virgin Islands, is a place called Annie Gada, where a pile of oysters looks like a small island, and for hundreds of years fishermen have been throwing large oysters with roosters, and now millions of oysters have gathered here.

People also come to this area to eat oyster shells and its oysters are also thrown on the island. Although it is not a regular island, it has become a peninsula and now people from all over the world come to see it.

The island, made up of small and large oysters in the blue water under the blue sky, offers a beautiful view.

However, most oysters are broken because holes are drilled in them to get the meat out of them and once the oysters are broken, they become more prone to breakage.

These oysters also have an important history lesson. When experts extracted very old oysters from the bottom and found out their age through radiocarbon dating, some of the oysters were found to be 1245 years old.

It is believed that the ancient Arawak people had piled up oysters here.

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