The Daily Populous

The Vietnam agreement coincides with an uptick in tension between Hanoi and Beijing over long-standing territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Satellite imagery released this week indicates China is building an airfield on an island that Hanoi says is Vietnamese territory.

Vietnam has had a “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership” with China since 1998 and a similar deal with Russia for more than a decade. »

The plant, which the Ancient Greeks called silphion (silphium), was a golden-flowered plant.

Inspired by ancient accounts, botanical explorers throughout the Middle Ages perpetually sought the plant across three continents although in vain.

Despite the plant having been perceived to be extinct for centuries and having completely disappeared from the history books, a researcher at Istanbul University, Mahmut Miski, suspects he has re-discovered the ancient plant. »

A Sotheby's auction duped investors by giving the Bored Ape NFTs "an air of legitimacy... to generate investors' interest and hype around the Bored Ape brand," the class-action lawsuit claims.

Sotheby's sold a lot of 101 Bored Ape NFTs for $24.4 million at its "Ape In!"

Yuga describes its collection of 10,000 Bored Ape NFTs as "unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain" that double as a "Yacht Club membership card." »

As President Biden met with the leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David on Friday, no country loomed more prominently in the background than China.

China is the largest trading partner for both Japan and South Korea and is America’s third largest trading partner.

The tightening alliance between Japan, South Korea and the United States already has triggered a harsh response from officials in Beijing. »