It’s Makoto Naegi’s first day at the elite Hope’s Peak Academy and he’s a little nervous. As players embark on this first game of the Danganronpa series, just reissued alongside its sequels for Nintendo Switch, they learn that Hope’s Peak is not what it seems. The eager students are soon imprisoned in a sadistic game…
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Wang Jing’s hand dives into a mound of soil and pulls out a bulging bunch of oyster mushrooms. “Look how pretty they are,” the mushroom-farmer-turned-influencer says to her fans on Douyin, the Chinese version of the short-video platform TikTok, as she strokes the soft caps of the fungi. Wang is one of the many internet…
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The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off, with flu hospitalizations rising and two child deaths reported. Last year’s flu season was the lowest on record, likely because COVID-19 measures — school closures, distancing, masks and canceled travel — prevented the spread of influenza, or because the coronavirus somehow pushed…
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U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in…
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US health officials have slashed the recommended isolation period for people who have Covid-19 as parts of the country’s economy struggle with severe staff shortages brought on by the Omicron wave. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that infected people only had to isolate for five days, as long as…
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France will require homeworking for all eligible employees for at least three days a week and ban large indoor gatherings of more than 2,000 people as it seeks to curb a new wave of Covid-19 driven largely by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Jean Castex, the prime minister, also promised that a law to make…
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New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace took effect Monday amid a spike in coronavirus infections. Workers at roughly 184,000 businesses were required to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday. Businesses that do not comply could…
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China said domestic firms must gain approval before they can list overseas if they operate in areas deemed off-limits to foreign investors, closing a loophole for the country’s tech groups to raise capital in the US without going through regulatory scrutiny at home. The National Development and Reform Commission, the state’s economic planning agency, said…
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Will low-carbon hydrogen will be the silver bullet in APAC? – Renewable Energy World Home Hydrogen Will low-carbon hydrogen will be the silver bullet in APAC? No posts to display We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume…
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In the seaside town of Dawlish in south-west England, engineers are working night and day to protect its 175-year-old railway from the modern day threat of climate change. The waves of the English Channel crash straight into the sea wall of the line built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the leading civil engineers of…
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