Category: As It Is (慢速新闻杂志)

Conflicts and natural disasters caused nearly 76 million people to be displaced within their countries a migration research group says. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) said violence in Sudan,…

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans Tuesday to increase tariffs on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports. Among the goods facing new taxes will be electric vehicles…

China’s economic expansion has been driven partly by millions of people who left their rural homes to work in cities and factories. But many of these workers are aging, and…

U.S. President Joe Biden said he would suspend a shipment of some weapons to Israel. U.S. officials are concerned about Israel’s plan to expand a military operation in the Gazan…

A Japanese town hopes to keep out crowds of visitors by building a large barrier to block views of the country’s tallest mountain, Mount Fuji. The town is called Fujikawaguchiko.…

Financial support for climate technology startups in Africa from the private sector is growing. Businesses have raised more than $3.4 billion since 2019. However, the continent requires $277 billion each…

Heavy rains and severe flooding have been hitting Kenya since March. They are among the most disastrous rainstorms to hit the East African country in recent years. At least 169…

A school for tourism and hotel management has opened its doors to students in Kabul, Afghanistan. The students are of different ages and their levels of education and professional experience…

A Laotian immigrant who has battled cancer for eight years will share hundreds of millions of dollars with a friend after winning a game of chance. Forty-six-year-old Cheng Saephan lives…

Officials closed schools and issued health warnings as a deadly heat wave has spread across Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, the education ministry announced on Sunday that in-person classes at…

Farmers in Vietnam are growing rice using a new method thought to reduce emissions of methane gas and labor costs. The method is called alternate wetting and drying, or AWD.…

A new study suggests that nearly half of major cities in China show signs of sinking. The study is based on recent satellite data. It estimated that 45 percent of…

The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the United States. Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed into law a conditional ban of the video-sharing app. India banned…

Brazil’s state-run oil company, Petrobras, wants to look for oil near the nation’s northeastern coast. Ibama is Brazil’s environmental agency. The agency denied Petrobras’ first proposal to do exploratory drilling…

International negotiators are meeting in Canada’s capital to discuss writing a treaty to control plastic and pollution linked to it. The meeting in Ottawa is part of the United Nations…