Three Share Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” The prize and its $900,000 award went equally to Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless of the United States and Morten Meldal of Denmark. For Sharpless, it is his second Nobel … Read more

No Longer Out of Sight, Effort Gets Underway to Combat Treatable Blindness

Africa and Latin America have the highest rates in the world of treatable sight problems, but a Spanish NGO is finding innovative ways to reverse this situation. Conditions like glaucoma or cataracts, which are easily treated in developed countries, often go unattended in many poorer countries that are struggling with more serious medical challenges like … Read more

Forbidden City, the city once closed to normal people

Soon after our team of foreign journalists representing several parts of the world arrived at an entrance of the well-known Forbidden City of Beijing, China, we heard announcements made through loudspeakers by relevant officials telling us to comply with anti–Covid-19 restrictions. Not in a very long distance, tour guides told their respective groups of visitors … Read more

Book festival to be held next week

An annual book festival 2022 entitle “Love the Lao Language” will be held at the World Trade Centre in Vientiane on Oct 9-13. The event aims to raise awareness of reading promotion for students, parents and general public members and the publication of children’s books, dharma books and general books, make general public members realize … Read more

TMC Subsidiary NORI Commences Monitoring of the Environmental Impacts of Pilot Nodule Collection System Trials in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Impact monitoring vessel Following 16 offshore campaigns by NORI to define the nodule resource and establish an environmental baseline in exploration area NORI-D in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ), NORI’s environmental program enters a new phase— monitoring the environmental impacts of an integrated collector system test consisting of a pilot collector on the seafloor, the […]

DEA Launches New Game Title for PlayMining ‘Menya Dragon Ramen’ on October 5, 2022

A new type of NFT game combining RPG and ramen sales simulation Featured Image for Digital Entertainment Asset Pte. Ltd SINGAPORE, Oct. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Digital Entertainment Asset Pte. Ltd. (DEA), Singapore-based global GameFi company, has launched a new game title “Menya Dragon Ramen” produced by a third-party company on its PlayMining platform […]