Study finds petrochemical industries behind winter ozone pollution
Severe wintertime ozone (O3) pollution may be driven by alkene emissions from local petrochemical industries, and can be detrimental to human health, finds a study.
Severe wintertime ozone (O3) pollution may be driven by alkene emissions from local petrochemical industries, and can be detrimental to human health, finds a study.
The Indian women’s handball team marked a strong start to the 20th Asian Women’s Handball Championship (AWHC) 2024 with a 31-28 victory over Hong Kong-China at the Indira Gandhi Arena here on Tuesday.
The sentencing of 45 pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong under its controversial National Security Law signifies a turning point in the former British colony’s political and legal history.
Denmark's Viktor Axelsen defeated local hero Ng Ka Lang Angus in straight sets at the badminton Hong Kong Open on Wednesday to win his first match after retaining the Olympic champion in Paris.
The new investment is part of a $50 million round raised by the company, with participation from its existing investor, Kirin Holdings of Japan, and Tiger Pacific Capital from New York
The move criminalizes any US financial transactions with the 11 officials, who include Hong Kong's police commissioner, its security secretary and China's top official in the international financial hub.
As relations between Washington and Beijing remain tense, the US has moved to end preferential treatment for Hong Kong over what it sees as an erosion of its autonomy and freedoms.
If India can achieve the same rate of growth as compared with China by following a democratic path with all its potholes, China has a problem when there is a democratic yearning among its own people. This is precisely the reason why Beijing has enforced the draconian national security law in Hong Kong which jettisons the one country, two systems as envisaged in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.
The latest arrests, which take the total of those arrested under the new law to 15, were made on suspicion of organising and inciting secession.
The arrests of the suspects, aged 16 to 21, on Wednesday marked the first such crackdown on anti-government activists not at the scene of street protests since the legislation came into effect on June 30
