If you are a regular shortwave radio listener, the synchronized beats might be etched in your mind. This is the shortwave time signal from CHU, operated by the National Research Council of Canada. As ...

In the long ago, pre-internet days when your clock project wasn’t an ESP32 getting its timing via NTP over WiFi, it was still possible to build a wirelessly-updating clock. All you needed was a ...

Leaving her family behind is the toughest part for Hong Kong’s first astronaut as she blasted off on Sunday for her six-month mission, according to her elder sister. Lai Ka-man recalled that when her ...

If you are working on a space station orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth, the woman set to become Hong Kong’s first astronaut when the mission launches this weekend is exactly the kind of ...

Donald Trump has said that freeing Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in China, would be "tough". Mr Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to the US from ...

Family and supporters had hoped the US president could help free the 78-year-old British citizen during summit talks in Beijing Donald Trump raised the case of jailed Hong Kong democracy campaigner ...

President Donald Trump divulged how Chinese President Xi Jinping responded to his inquiry about releasing Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong businessman imprisoned after his outspoken criticism of the Chinese ...

Lai wins $60,000 literary award for her study of a young woman’s repression and rage as she struggles to juggle the needs of those around her Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads As the ...

Nothing is worse than war? Dishonor is worse than war. Slavery is worse than war. —Winston Churchill To the quickening drumfire of the fighting in South Viet Nam, Americans sensed early in 1965 that ...

Her appearance underscores that “America is determined” to secure the release of the Hong Kong democracy activist, Speaker Mike Johnson said. By Catie Edmondson Reporting from Washington Speaker Mike ...

An open letter from Claire Lai, the daughter of Chinese political Jimmy Lai, to Eileen Gu, the American-born star of China’s Winter Olympics team. Dear Ms. Gu, Congratulations on your historic, ...

COMMENTARY: A 20-year prison sentence meant to silence one man now stands as a warning to the free world — especially America. Police stand guard outside West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court in Hong Kong ...