Description
Added on the 12/01/2023 19:13:02 - Copyright : AFP EN
At the foot of the vineyards outside a sleepy village in northern France, Sabine Rouas and her steed Aston, a 1.4-tonne (3,000-pound) bull, make stately progress. A van pulls to a halt and the bemused driver takes out his phone to record the scene. Aston's outings often trigger the same reaction, and give Sabine a chuckle. "Honestly, I didn't invent this," she says. "Look around the world, people ride all sorts of animals -- ostriches, camels, elephants." Aston is a local celebrity in the Meuse region, and now around the world.
The first cloned Arctic wolf could help researchers preserve endangered species, but some in the scientific community have raised concerns.
Ten months after a 16-year-old Arctic wolf died at a zoo in northern China, a new cub was born through cloning technology. Using a beagle dog as the gestational carrier, Beijing-based Sinogene Biotechnology claimed they had successfully cloned an Arctic wolf, the "world's first" of its kind.
A Taiwanese microchip tycoon unveils plans to train more than three million "civilian warriors" to help defend the island against a potential Chinese invasion, donating NT$1 billion ($33m) of his own money. Robert Tsao, founder of major microchip maker United Microelectronics Corp, says Taiwan should show that it will "annihilate" China in the event of an invasion.
Overlooked by high-rises on the outskirts of Hong Kong, a group of students practise body-slam tackles and vicious ankle-wrenches at weekly training for an unlikely sport: the ancient Indian game of kabaddi. Though its professional league has a huge following in India and surrounding nations, kabaddi -- a highly physical game where the object is to tag the rival team, often by brute force -- is relatively unknown outside the region. But eight years ago two Chinese anthropologists set up a Hong Kong team to encourage integration in a city which, despite its status as an international hub, can be less than inclusive, especially when it comes to non-white and non-Chinese residents.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
