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Pinoy student wins silver in Australian robotics tilt

Imagine raucous, ear piercing chatter and laughter in popular restaurants and festive parties. Imagine the sounds being captured and converted into electricity. High school student James Louis de Luna has managed to do just that, harnessing enough sound to power a machine called “Sumobot.” His ingenuity won for the Philippines a silver medal in the …

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Pieces of China’s oldest stone arch bridge retrieved, repaired

More than 30 relics from China’s oldest stone arch bridge have been repaired, the first time such work has been undertaken. The items are mostly sections of the bridge guardrail of the Zhaozhou Bridge (趙州橋). Also known as Anji Bridge (安濟橋), it stands over the Xiaohe River in Zhaoxian county, north China’s Hebei province. Built …

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Beijing’s Old Summer Palace restored with scattered relics

More than 80,000 pieces of stones and bricks have been restored to Beijing’s Yuanmingyuan (圓明園), known as the Old Summer Palace, Beijing Morning News reported recently. Used as a royal garden during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the palace park was also known for its exquisite architecture and many works of art. Unfortunately, it was destroyed, …

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88-year-old carves wood painting into history

Chen Yiwen (陳義文), who just celebrated his 88th birthday, is the lone surviving artist possessing a high artistic attainment in wood engraving painting in Hubei province. Chen is a national-level inheritor of Laohekou wood engraving New Year painting (老河口木版年畫雕刻), which originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and thrived during the Qianlong period …

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Gansu women rule

Inhabitants in this isolated pocket of northwest China may not have heard of the women’s liberation movement that took Western society by storm in the 1960s. But perhaps they do not need to. In a reversal of traditional Chinese roles between genders, women in Kangxian county, Gansu province have traditionally been dominant, with husbands assuming …

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