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Mar 30, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Wendy Wu
At least 13 Chinese citizens have been injured in the Myanmar earthquake – and more casualties are expected, the country’s embassy said on Sunday. “As rescue operations in the disaster area are still under way, the number of casualties may continue to rise. We do not yet have information on the casualties among local overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese,” the embassy told the state broadcaster CCTV.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Orange Wang |Wendy Wu
Zheng Yongnian is a leading political scientist in China and a government adviser. His academic work is mainly about contemporary China, particularly politics, the country’s transformation and its external relations. In an interview conducted before China’s “two sessions”, he discussed the impact of Maga on China, and how the country could become more resilient. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Orange Wang |Wendy Wu
5 hours agoSen. Lindsey Graham: A pause in U.S. help for Ukraine could be 'worse than Afghanistan'“Until we have a ceasefire, I would give Ukraine what they need in terms of intelligence and weapons to defend themselves,” Graham said. Sen.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Wendy Wu
Wang Xiangwei is a veteran China-watcher teaching journalism at Baptist University in Hong Kong, and a former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post. As a witness to and recorder of key events involving China for more than three decades, Wang talks to the Post on the country’s challenges and opportunities in a fast-changing world. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. What can we expect from this year’s “two sessions”?
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Wendy Wu
The Chinese and Indonesian coastguards held their first senior-level talks this week on boosting maritime security cooperation. The two sides discussed topics such as setting up regular meetings at all levels, port calls and capability build-up, the China Coast Guard said on Saturday. “Both sides believe that it is necessary to further deepen pragmatic maritime cooperation, jointly maintain the order of maritime security and properly deal with maritime emergencies,” its statement said.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Wendy Wu
Uygur Rights Advocacy Project, Canada Tibet Committee and 20 people involved are on sanctions list, Chinese foreign ministry saysPublished: 6:11pm, 22 Dec 2024Updated: 6:13pm, 22 Dec 2024Beijing has sanctioned two Canadian institutes and several individuals as tensions with Ottawa continue to worsen over Tibet and Xinjiang.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Wendy Wu
Beijing’s top envoy to the United States has called for “objective and rational” views on China through more people-to-people exchanges, especially among the youth. A total of 14,000 young Americans had visited China since November last year, when President Xi Jinping announced plans to welcome 50,000 US youths on exchange and study programmes over the next five years, Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to Washington, said on Friday, US time.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Wendy Wu
Nine people were killed in a fire at a cold storage on Saturday in China’s eastern province of Shandong, state media reported. Thermal insulation materials caught on fire at the under-construction cold chain storage facility in the city of Rongcheng around midday on Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV said. The nine deaths at the site were discovered on Sunday morning. An investigation is under way.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
nature.com | Kalliroi Sdougkou |Stefano Papazian |Wendy Wu |Jonathan Martin |Sophia Harlid |Jessica Edlund
The chemical exposome includes exposure to numerous environmental and endogenous molecules, many of which have been linked to reproductive outcomes due to their endocrine-disrupting properties. As several breast cancer risk factors, including age and parity, are related to reproduction, it is imperative to investigate the interplay between such factors and the chemical exposome prior to conducting large scale exposome-based breast cancer studies. This pilot study aimed to provide an overview of the chemical exposome in plasma samples from healthy women and identify associations between environmental exposures and three risk factors for breast cancer: age, parity, and age at menarche. Plasma samples (n = 161), were selected based on reproductive history from 100 women participating in the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study, between 1987 and 2006. Samples were analyzed by liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) for 77 priority target analytes including contaminants and hormones, with simultaneous untargeted profiling of the chemical exposome and metabolome. Linear mixed effects models were applied to test associations between risk factors and chemical levels. Fifty-five target analytes were detected in at least one individual and over 94,000 untargeted features were detected across all samples. Among untargeted features, 430 could be annotated and were broadly classified as environmental (246), endogenous (167) or ambiguous (17). Applying mixed effect models to features detected in at least 70% of the samples (16,778), we found seven targeted analytes (including caffeine and various per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) and 38 untargeted features, positively associated with age. The directionality of these associations reversed for parity, decreasing with increasing births. Seven separate targeted analytes were associated with age at menarche. This study demonstrates how a comprehensive chemical exposome approach can be used to inform future research prioritization regarding associations between known and unknown substances, reproduction, and breast cancer risk.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Wendy Wu
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the country’s new information force to boost its build-up in capacity to counter the challenges of modern warfare. Xi’s inspection of the Information Support Force on Wednesday coincided with the force’s first party representative meeting, state broadcaster CCTV said.
