Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi was the second-largest smartphone maker in the second quarter, according to report from analyst firm Canalys. Xiaomi had a 17 per cent share of global smartphone shipments, ahead of Apple’s 14 per cent and behind Samsung’s 19 per cent.
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From Dubai’s deepest pool in the world, to the biggest astronomy museum in Shanghai, each country has been working on their respective astounding feat. Now Singapore has unveiled one of the world’s largest floating solar panel farms.
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Crushed by the high number of cases daily, Malaysia is struggling to keep it all under wrap. Covid has taken its toll on the people, the economy and especially the healthcare workers. However, amidst the bad, there is one silver lining. Malaysia has one of the fastest vaccination rates in the world.
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Mulan is a story about a girl who dressed as a man to join the army in the father stead. With a red dragon and cricket as her cute and loyal sidekicks, she ended up saving China from the Huns’ invasion and ultimately hailed as a hero. Well, that is how the Disney story goes. But the story for the Malaya Hua Mulan is not quite as fairy tale liked as the Disney character. In fact, her story is far from a happy ending.
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A restaurant in Holland has created probably the most outlandish burger that costs $6,000.
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The pandemic has turned our lives completely bonkers. Where and how we worked has changed dramatically. There are more people working from home than ever before. There are those that are keen to ditch the office for good, while some are dying to return to office as their house or venue for working from home is not conducive.
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Pfizer and BioNTech has announced that they are developing a Covid-19 booster shot intended to target the highly transmissible delta variant. The majority of the Covid cases in the US are from this particular variant.
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Onasemnogene abeparvovec, sold under the brand name Zolgensma, is a gene therapy medication used to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). It is used as a one-time infusion into a vein. Onasemnogene abeparvovec works by providing a new copy of the gene that makes the human SMN protein.
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Opening on Friday, the 420,000-square-foot Shanghai Astronomy Museum — a branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum — will house exhibitions, a planetarium, an observatory and a 78-foot-tall solar telescope. It is designed by US firm Ennead Architects, which won an international competition to design the building back in 2014.
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