The world is getting warmer, winters included. The United States, however, has experienced severe winter storms in recent years, and experts are taking a closer look at the link between these extreme cold events and climate change. While the link between global warming and heat waves is very direct, the
Myanmar’s junta continues to impose harsh prison sentences on student activists, sentencing seven of them to prison terms of between two and 25 years over the past seven days. The longest sentence was handed down by Yangon’s Insein Prison Court on Tuesday to Kaung Sat, from the city’s Myanmar Maritime
Last February, the United Nations official responsible for tracking human rights in Myanmar called for a global arms embargo against the ruling military junta, which was by then a year into a brutal crackdown on dissenters since its 2021 coup ousted the civilian government. In a 40-page report, Tom Andrews
SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (“Junshi Biosciences”, HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, today announces the online publication in New England Journal (NEJM) of the Phase 3 trial (NCT05341609)
NASA is exploring whether SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer an alternative ride home for some crew members of the International Space Station after a Russian capsule sprang a coolant leak while docked to the orbital lab. NASA and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, are investigating the cause of
Junta troops killed seven residents of a village in central Myanmar’s Mandalay region, locals told RFA. The men were arrested on Saturday night and villagers found their bodies over the next two days. They identified the men as 62-year-old Sein Maung Myint; 50-year-old Sein Aung; 43-year-old Kyaw Tin; 37-year-old Swe
Shinhan Financial Group Co. on Friday reported its first-quarter net profit of 1.34 trillion won (US$978.1 million), down 4.7 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory