Travel and Tech News from Ikky in China
The following four flights to China have resumed full operation starting September 28: Lufthansa flight LH720 from Frankfurt to Shenyang Air China flight CA946 from Karachi to Zhengzhou China Southern flight CZ3056 from Yangon to Guangzhou EgyptAir flight MS953 from Cairo to Hangzhou For the up-to-date list of suspended flights, please visit this page.
For an overview of all the suspended flights, please visit this page here. For an overview of all the available direct flights to China, please visit this page here. On September 24 and September 26, the CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) announced suspension against the following two international flights to Guangzhou: Emirates flight EK362 from … Read more
Crypto Alerts are buzzing about Meet Mr Goxx: a hamster who works out of what may be the most technologically advanced hamster cage in existence, as you can see from the YouTube video below: It’s set up so that when Mr Goxx spins the hamster wheel, he can choose from dozens of cryptocurrencies. Then, after … Read more
Guangzhou, the capital of South China’s Guangdong Province, will require all overseas arrivals to undergo a 21-day quarantine at designated isolation centres prior to the city’s hosting of the Canton Fair, as the country has seen a COVID-19 surge centred in East China’s Fujian Province. The new quarantine rules were announced in a statement on … Read more
Southwest China is home to China’s first mRNA vaccine production base against COVID-19. The recently established Yunnan Province in China is expected to be operational in October. The facility is expected to produce 200 million doses of the vaccine per year, bolstering the country’s mass vaccination campaign. ARcoVax, an mRNA vaccine developed collaboratively by the … Read more
Crypto alerts are buzzing about Metrika, a startup based in the United States that provides operational monitoring tools for blockchain networks, that has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round. Neotribe Ventures led the round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Nyca Partners, and SCB 10X, among others. This was an equity round, and as part of the deal, Swaroop “Kittu” Kolluri of Neotribe Ventures joined Metrika’s board, according to Metrika CEO Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos. Metrika intends to use the new funds to expand the platform’s capacity and broaden its customer base across industries. “We are allocating … Read more
On September 18 and 22, the CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) announced suspension against the following two international flights: Iraqi Airways flight IA473 from Baghdad to Guangzhou Air France flight AF382 from Paris to Tianjin On September 8, 5 passengers on flight IA473 tested positive for the novel coronavirus. As a result, the flight got … Read more
The following four flights to China have resumed full operation starting September 21: US-Bangla Airlines flight BS325 from Dhaka to Guangzhou China Southern flight CZ392 from Dhaka to Guangzhou Cebu flight 5J308 from Manila to Guangzhou Air China flight CA180 from Manila to Beijing For the up-to-date list of suspended flights, please visit this page.
The cryptocurrency community is spooked by crypto alerts from an assault of phishing schemes, which has many questioning the very foundations on which it was based. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being lost by non-fungible token (NFT) developers and collectors to quick-thumbed crooks who are taking advantage of decentralized finance’s growing popularity and fractured customer service infrastructure. Although phishing schemes in the digital finance (DeFi) space are not new, crypto’s new audience is fueling current fraudulent activities. As NFTs have grown increasingly valued (and fashionable) … Read more
Online crypto alerts heavily influence the prices of crypto assets. Last week, investors saw how bogus news might cause a token’s market value to skyrocket, even if only for an hour. Fortunately, the effects of real news tend to linger longer; nonetheless, the challenge for investors is determining which stories to consider when making trading … Read more