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Extinction of Chinese paddlefish and wild Yangtze sturgeon announced by IUCN

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) announced the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish and the wild Yangtze sturgeon on Thursday in its updated Red List of threatened species.

The global sturgeon reassessment published by the IUCN on Thursday revealed that 100 percent of the world's remaining 26 sturgeon species are now at risk of extinction, up from 85 percent in 2009.
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Looks like it’s officially extinct now. Quite unfortunate.
 
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An update on the 1st use of ZERO.

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Chinese Invented Number System: Singapore Researcher

A Singapore researcher has crushed the long-held belief that the Arabs and Indians invented the numeral system used today, according to a report carried by the Straits Times Thursday.

A retired National University of Singapore mathematics professor, Dr Lam, 66, told The Straits Times the universal system using the numbers one to nine - known as the Hindu-Arabic system - had its roots in the rod bundles used in China from as early as 475 BC.

The earliest known text on arithmetic based on the current number system was written by an Arab in AD 825, but the earliest Chinese treatise on the rod numerals and procedures for multiplication and division - the sun zi suanjing - was written about 425 years earlier.

When Dr Lam compared the procedures in both, she found, to her astonishment, that they were identical. 'They could not have developed the same systems by sheer coincidence,'

Lam Lay Yong
Award-winning authority on the history of Chinese mathematics
Internationally renowned for her research into the history of Chinese mathematics, Lam Lay Yong is the first woman, and the first person from Asia, to have won the prestigious
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prize for her contribution to mathematics.
After 30 years of research, she laid to rest the long held belief that the Arabs and Indians invented the numeral system used today.
She offered evidence that it was the Chinese who discovered it, using simple bamboo rods.
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Kenneth O. May Prize and Medal in
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(ICHM) "for the encouragement and promotion of the history of mathematics internationally".
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Oh oh, the Jain Hinds and the ardent Arab hyper nationalists wouldn't like this news one bit. And let's not even talk about the Goeryo folks
 
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Looks like it’s officially extinct now. Quite unfortunate.
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Along with the loss of the Chinese paddlefish, another sturgeon species, the Yangtze sturgeon is now classified as "extinct in the wild." Existing individuals in the river are the result of the release of captive stocks.
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Not as bad since China has grasped the technology of fish farming sturgeons.

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Don't know if this has been reported.
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RMB cross border payment scheme expands to include non-banking entities. It is to begin today. Up till today, only (clearing) banks are allowed to handle RMB cross border payment through CIPS.
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This was the only lowkey news I found in English, good for China. Step by step undermining the USD hegemony.
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Apparently there’s some unrest in Shandong; worth further monitoring and verification.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1550042887089446912
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Apparently there are many unrests in the United States of America.

and in Germany

and in the UK


and in Switzerland
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Oh, they must be going to crush some peaceful protesters. It worth further monitoring and verification for you (only).

Here is a SERIOUS one (no joke), do enjoy
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crazy and those trucks some have AC either if I understand correctly
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The U.S. pays lip-service to human rights and accuses other countries for slave labor, while in reality, the practice of using slave labor is surprisingly common in its own country, and we are not even talking about prisoner labor. Here is another example:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1549847059770920960

China just applied for CPTPP.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1550128874310184961
 
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