Ikky In China

Source: SHINE It could take less than three hours to shuttle between Shanghai and Guangzhou on a maglev train, according to a plan released by Guangdong Province. The province in south China said it intends to reserve land for the construction of a Shanghai-(Shenzhen)-Guangzhou High-Speed Maglev. Its department of natural resources has published a blueprint … Read more

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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