NYU Shanghai announces record int’l applications

Source: The PIE News NYU Shanghai, a joint venture between East China Normal University and New York University, has announced a record 18,713 students applied for admission to the university for autumn 2021, a 12% increase over last year. With just 2,246 of those applicants from China, international applicants from countries other than the US … Read more

Sales boost for Chinese electric car startups

Source: SHINE Companies post good performances in January amid rising momentum in the new-energy vehicle sector and improving consumer confidence with some reporting sales up 300 percent. Chinese electric car startups posted a good performance in January amid rising momentum in the new-energy vehicle sector and improving consumer confidence. Startups such as NIO, Xpeng and … Read more

Applying for a 邀请函(PU) “PU Invitation Letter”

A frequent question being asked by foreigners stuck outside of China is how to obtain a PU Invitation Letter which is required for a related visa to come to China. In this article that I co-authored, we will explain the process and the required documents as well as who can apply for the letter. For … Read more

Nationality of Children Born in China

In this article, we will talk about what nationality can children born in China get. We will address two situations: one in which a baby is born to two foreign parents The other where one parent is Chinese This article is hosted on WeChat and accessible from here.

Linux 5.11 dominated by descriptors for new AMD silicon

Source: The Register Linus Torvalds has been back at work for a week and already has a second release candidate ready. What’s your excuse? Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has urged developers to “crawl out from under all the xmas wrapping paper piles and go test” after releasing release candidate two of version 5.11 of the … Read more

Switching from Fedora to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

Back in 2014, I made the decision to switch from Ubuntu to Fedora. After 4 years on Fedora (interrupted by 2 years of being on MacOS), I decided to try out openSUSE Tumbleweed. I have been using this OS as a dual boot with Windows 10 on my laptop for two weeks and did not … Read more

Goodbye CentOS, hello Rocky Linux

Source: ZDNet Red Hat is transforming CentOS into a DevOps-friendly, leading-edge rolling release. Many people liked it just the way it was. Now, CentOS’s founder is working on giving them what they want. When Red Hat, CentOS‘s Linux parent company, announced it was “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, … Read more

Xiaomi overtook Apple in smartphone sales last quarter

Xiaomi Phone

Source: Engadget The industry as a whole is bouncing back from the pandemic. The smartphone world is bouncing back from the early days of the pandemic, and there’s been a changing of the guard as a result. Gartner estimates that Xiaomi overtook Apple in phone sales during the third quarter of 2020, climbing from 32.9 … Read more

How to Install WeChat for PC on Fedora

In this post I will describe how to install WeChat for PC on Fedora 33 using Wine. Installing WineHQ Add the repository: Install the staging branch: Install those extra dependencies to make WeChat application launch: Setup Wine Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and run the following commands: When you run the winecfg command for the first time, Wine will start … Read more

How to make a MultiBoot USB for all OS

If you ever wanted to turn your USB key into a Swiss Army Knife for Operating systems, look no further! I tried it and now I have multiple OS on a single USB Stick instead of having one dedicated OS per USB Key. Credits to Torogi Pro.