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World’s oldest woman dies in Japan aged 119

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A Japanese woman recognised as the world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, has died aged 119, just months short of her 120th birthday. Tanaka died on April 19, 2022, at a hospital in Fukuoka, her hometown in southern Japan where she spent all of her life. The Guinness Book of Records recognised her as the oldest person…

World’s largest hydro-solar farm floats atop reservoir in Thailand

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A hydro-solar farm floating on waters of the Sirindhorn reservoir in Thailand’s northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani is the largest of its kind in the world. Comprising more than 144,000 solar cells, and covering over 72 hectares (178 acres), the array has a power-generating capacity of 45 megawatts. The energy project is part of Thailand’s push…

World’s largest electric cruise ship makes its debut on the Yangtze River

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Billed as the world’s largest electric cruise ship, the Yangtze River Three Gorges 1 embarked on its maiden voyage in Yichang, in central China’s Hubei province on March 29, 2022. According to Chinese state media, the river-going vessel has a battery with the world’s largest power cell capacity. Propelled by clean hydroelectric energy, the ship can…

Billionaires: Are they part of the world’s inequality problem, or the solution? – BBC News

The Covid pandemic has made the world’s wealthiest far richer but has led to more people living in poverty, according to the charity Oxfam. Forbes found that the 25 biggest billionaire givers in the US have over their lifetimes given away $169 billion to charitable causes, which has risen by about $20 billion since the end of 2020. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault…

China plans to expand world’s largest high-speed railway network to 50,000km by 2025

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube China plans to extend the length of its high-speed railway network to 50,000km (31,070 miles) by 2025. The network was 38,000km (23,612 miles) long as of \the end of 2020. The expansion of the world’s largest high-speed railway exceeds the combined length of the next five countries on the list: Spain, Japan, France, Germany and Finland….

Covid outbreaks loom over world’s biggest human migration as China braces for Lunar New Year rush

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Lunar New Year in China typically sees the biggest annual human migration on Earth, as millions of migrant workers travel home to spend the holidays with their families. But the country is now trying to contain the spread of Covid-19. Disinfection work and other precautions are in place at railway stations ahead of the travel rush….

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