https://www.scmp.com/rss/504940/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Nester Chik Yiu-kai Nester Chik Yiu-kai Li Peng, the former premier of China, died of an unspecified illness on Tuesday at the age of 90. While you may know his name, perhaps you don’t know much more about the man most famous for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown. No matter your opinions on him, there’s no doubt he had a major impact on China and the world. Here are six little-known facts about Li Peng. What you should know about Tiananmen Square, 30 years later His Childhood Perhaps only a few people know his full name, Li... https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/asia/article/3065439/6-facts-about-li-peng-former-chinese-premier-who-backed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/asia/article/3065439/6-facts-about-li-peng-former-chinese-premier-who-backed?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:32:40 +0000 Nester Chik Yiu-kai Nester Chik Yiu-kai It was a long, beautiful Easter holiday. While you were lying on your sofa, sipping an iced coffee, did you notice the world outside your air-conditioned room? Scientists have found that Greenland – the Earth’s second-largest ice sheet – is losing ice at a faster pace than ever before. Greenland’s glaciers dumped about 286 billion tonnes of ice into the ocean between 2010 and 2018. Compare that to the 51 billion tonnes of ice between 1980 to 1990. As a result, the world’s sea levels are rising.... https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/your-voice/opinion/article/3054531/climate-emergency-melting-greenland-ice-sheet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/your-voice/opinion/article/3054531/climate-emergency-melting-greenland-ice-sheet?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 May 2019 05:08:15 +0000 Nester Chik Yiu-kai Nester Chik Yiu-kai Two years ago, I found myself sitting in an examination room, faced with a question which required me to calculate the temperature of milk tea after mixing. But what I didn’t know was that this question would teach me a lesson about friendship. “This cannot be wrong!” I yelled at my classmates later, holding the crumpled physics test paper I had been given back. Everyone else had found the milk tea question easy; they’d all used the same method to solve it. But I had taken a different route, and... https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/your-voice/opinion/article/3062434/best-lesson-friendship-balancing-act-says-student?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/your-voice/opinion/article/3062434/best-lesson-friendship-balancing-act-says-student?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 May 2019 02:45:12 +0000