Americans are used to seeing a “Made in China” label on goods from sneakers to electronics, with trade between the superpowers growing yearly toward volumes that are now worth around $700 billion annually. But many may have also noticed more and more consumer goods from a source once unlikely: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam is now America’s sixth largest source for imports — outranked only by China, Mexico, Canada, Japan and Germany, and ahead of other historical trading behemoths like South Korea, Taiwan, India, the UK and France — according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Trade between the U.S.…
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — As principal of North Charleston High School in South Carolina, an area where 20 percent of residents live in poverty, Henry Darby was used to seeing students in need. “There were some kids who, when I went to their homes, their mother wouldn’t let me in, but I could see that the home was dark — they had no electricity. Or you could see that they were sleeping on mattresses on the floor. … There was one student sleeping under a bridge.” As someone who grew up in extreme poverty himself, Darby has a soft spot for such…
NEW DELHI — India’s apex defense research body, Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has developed a counter-drone technology that will assist the army in identifying and destroying drones that pose a security threat to the country. Jillelamudi Manjula, Director-General of the Electronics and Communication Systems at DRDO, said that the D-4 drone system could detect close-range attacks like the recent attack in Jammu, the northernmost territory in India, on June 27 that left two soldiers injured. “D-4 drone system would’ve detected attack (in Jammu) as its range is over 4 kilometers [2.4 miles],” Manjula said. “The system’s aim is to detect rogue…
NEW DELHI — UK-based space start-up OneWeb launched and contacted 36 satellites just days after Indian company Bharti Global invested $500 million in OneWeb for a 38.6 percent stake in the company. With the launch of the satellites, OneWeb completes its ‘Five to 50’ mission and has a total number of 254 satellites. “The latest launch takes OneWeb’s in-orbit constellation to 254 satellites, or 40 percent of OneWeb’s planned fleet of 648 Low Earth Orbit satellites that will deliver high-speed, low-latency global connectivity,” the Low Earth Orbit satellite communications company said. “With this major milestone, the Company is ready to deliver connectivity across the…
WASHINGTON — U.S. tech company Microsoft introduced a new dynamic refresh rate feature in the latest edition of its Windows 11 laptops to increase the battery life. “Dynamic refresh rate is a new feature that can be found in Windows Insider builds (Dev channel) on supported devices,” Ana Marta, a program manager at Microsoft, said in the statement. “As the name suggests, dynamic refresh rate lets your device set the refresh rate dynamically. This means that Windows 11 will seamlessly switch between a lower refresh rate and a higher refresh rate based on what you’re doing on your PC. This helps to balance performance…
NEW DELHI — Indian social media platform ShareChat’s Moj app announced the launch of a talent hunt contest to mark the one-year milestone of its operations in the country. Moj is a short video app similar to the popular Chinese app TikTok. The app was launched on July 1 last year, within 30 hours of the Chinese short video app TikTok being banned in India due to geopolitical tensions with China. Moj tweeted: “Moj is on a hunt for India’s Next Digital Superstar! Launching #MojSuperStarHunt — where your talent meets the world.” The contest will look for talent in areas like dancing,…
Widespread rumors that mRNA vaccines negatively impact fertility are unfounded, according to new research from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center. The team studied 36 couples undergoing a second round of vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. All had received both doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine between the two rounds. None of the couples showed any differences in parameters such as sperm quality, semen volume, ovarian stimulation or proportion of high-quality embryos compared to their IVF cycles prior to vaccination. In fact, one-third of the couples conceived in the post-vaccination IVF round, whereas the usual success…
SINGAPORE — India’s economic damage due to the second wave of Covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns will remain restricted to the April to June quarter, Moody’s Investors Service said in its new macroeconomic outlook. “We currently expect India’s real Gross Domestic Product to grow at 9.6 percent in 2021 and 7 percent in 2022,” it said. “With states now easing restrictions, economic activity in May is likely to signify the trough.” It assessed the overall economic effect of the second wave to be softer than that during the first wave of pandemic last year. However, delivery of and access to vaccines will determine the…
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned its citizens from traveling to several countries, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. This comes after the UAE extended the travel ban on passengers from 14 countries until July 21 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Foreign Ministry and the National Emergency, Crisis, and Disaster Management Authority stated that, with the start of the travel season, citizens need to comply with all precautionary and preventive measures related to Covid-19. “Flights from 14 countries, includes Liberia, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Uganda, Zambia, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Nepal,…
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Burma) — Along with a brutal military crackdown and a month-long national strike, Myanmar is facing a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases because of the military’s neglect of the raging pandemic after the coup in February. As of June 1, the Covid-19 positivity rate has jumped to nearly 22 percent due to limited testing. Health experts believe that many cases are going undetected. As many as 20 townships in six states and regions have been placed under pandemic-related stay-at-home orders by the military. Naypyitaw, the capital city, and Yangon, the largest city, have also reported outbreaks. In Mandalay, the second-largest…