Margaret Lee Margaret Lee

Birth of rare white tiger triplets

On January 2nd of 2023, white tiger triplets made their public debut in Nantong Forest Safari Park of the Jiangsu Province, China. Conceived naturally in the wildlife park, they were born to a white bengal tiger on September 30, 2022.

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Venus Fung Venus Fung

Who Is the Girl with a Pearl Earring?

Known as the “Mona Lisa of the North”, the Girl with a Pearl Earring has been an iconic masterpiece for decades. Painted in 1665 by Johannes Vermeer, this oil painting is now housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. In 1994, it was restored by the Mauritshuis from head to toe. When the Mauritshuis museum was under renovation in 2012, the Girl with a Pearl Earring travelled all across the globe, from Italy, the United States and Japan.

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Aideen Cheung Aideen Cheung

Beep boop. I’m not a computer. Or am I? AI that lets you “chat” with characters exists now

With AI getting more and more advanced, it’s no surprise that it’s becoming increasingly useful for everyday life. For example, AI can do art, paraphrase, etc. Where's the line that splits the capabilities of AI from humans? Let me introduce you to an AI that doesn’t care about that line called Character.AI, it mimics chatting like any real or fictional character.

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Faber Liauw Faber Liauw

A Landmark Ruling on Transgender Rights in Hong Kong 

On the 6th of February, Hong Kong’s top court ruled that it would be a violation of transgender people’s rights to require having gone through full sex reassignment surgery to use their preferred gender on identity cards. Following this, many LGBTQ+ activists hope this landmark ruling will create a ripple effect across the rest of Asia, with countries like China, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan still requiring a surgical transition.

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Annabelle Kng Annabelle Kng

Tiktoker Keith Lee Changes the Lives of Local Las Vegas Restaurant Owners

Keith Lee – a professional athlete turned TikToker – has become a saviour of restaurants. The 26 years old TikToker rose to fame at the end of 2022 when his videos started to gain a lot of attention. At the start of 2022, he had one million followers; now in 2023, he has over 10 million followers! Lee uses his platform to help struggling Las Vegas businesses gain visibility.

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Margaret Lee Margaret Lee

Lab-Grown Meat

Lab-grown meat or cultured meat is meat made in laboratories. The idea was first thought of by Willem van Eelen, a Dutch researcher, in the 1950s. Professor Mark Post, a Dutch scientist from Maastricht University, Netherlands, developed the first cultured meat in 2013. The first burger made with lab-grown beef was prepared by Chef Richard McGeown, also in 2013. The first four cultured meat companies were founded two years later in 2015.

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Venus Fung Venus Fung

All About the Most Popular Book Genre: Romance

Are you an avid reader? A person who always has their nose in a book? Well, if you are a self-proclaimed “bookworm” then you must have seen at least one romance novel. Today, I’ll tell you all about the most popular book genre: romance.

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Aideen Cheung Aideen Cheung

Drones fly high, saving lives

Drones have drawn a lot of criticism for their use of surveillance in the military, but they are turning out to be an increasingly powerful weapon in the fight against cancer and other diseases.

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Keshav Gupta Keshav Gupta

Morocco Makes History by Becoming the First African Nation to Reach World Cup Semi-Finals

Morocco will advance to the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar semi-finals, after a historic win against Portugal. Morocco won the match 1-0 and has become the first-ever African team to make it this far in the World Cup. Prior to this year’s World Cup, only 3 African nations were able to make it to the quarter-finals, Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002, and most recently, Ghana in 2010. However, none of them made it any further in the competition.

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A ‘Historic’ Move is Made to Protect Sharks 

Nearly 200 countries have voted to regulate the global trade in shark fins in what is being considered a ‘conservation milestone’. Under this bill, more than 50 sharks will be granted protection from exploitation, which covers the requiem shark family, tiger sharks, and six species of hammerhead sharks.

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