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            <title>Hot MILF Italian PM to arrest Netanyahu if</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5539466</link>
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            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:29:09 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Israel to annex both Gaza Strip &amp;amp; West Bank before</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5538549</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/GFrAK3B4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nearly two years after Hamas militants stormed southern Israel, the war in Gaza has entered a darker, deadlier phase. The territory now faces a reckoning its residents describe as annihilation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel’s latest military campaign in Gaza and its West Bank annexation plans have left observers warning that the age-old Palestinian presence across both could soon be erased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Wednesday, Israel’s government unveiled plans to annex 82 per cent of the occupied West Bank. The escalation comes despite mounting international alarm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Nations last month declared famine in Gaza, while the International Association of Genocide Scholars has concluded that Israel is carrying out genocide. Yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government continues to act with apparent impunity, shielded by unwavering support from the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donald Trump’s administration, which abandoned Qatari-mediated truce talks last month amid accusations it was “moving goalposts”, has openly endorsed Netanyahu’s stated objective: the capture of Gaza City – the strip’s largest urban centre – and the forcible displacement of its 1 million residents to the enclave’s far south as a means of forcing Hamas’ unconditional surrender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Israeli military officials themselves have warned that such a plan cannot and will not prevent Hamas from waging a prolonged guerrilla insurgency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile in Washington, officials are pushing a plan, drafted by consultancy The Boston Group, that envisions a Dubai-style resort and hi-tech economic free zone built atop Gaza’s ruins, after paying most surviving Palestinians to leave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moves by other Western nations – Britain, France and Australia among them – to recognise a Palestinian state on the sidelines of this month’s UN General Assembly have been rendered largely symbolic by Washington’s silence on Israel’s new annexation plans, observers say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For many analysts, the implications are stark. Hussein Ibish, a senior scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, sees no signs of the war ending soon. Both Israel and Hamas appear resigned to a drawn-out conflict, he argues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli side does not appear to be interested in ending it under any circumstances,” Ibish told This Week in Asia. “And Hamas will not end the war without a clear commitment that Israel will withdraw its forces … which is now their main goal.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli public doesn’t care, and the world has become used to the conflict. It is only the long-suffering Palestinians of Gaza who will really pay the price,” he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maria Gloria Polimeno, a research fellow at SOAS University of London’s Middle East Institute, was even more blunt. What was happening in Gaza was tantamount to “the final solution, alias the genocide of Palestinians,” she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She argued that the refusal to reach a deal with Hamas over the remaining Israeli hostages – including the collapsed negotiations in Doha – revealed the true priorities of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition. Central to this agenda was Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who alongside his extremist allies champions the annexation of the West Bank as part of a “Greater Israel” vision, she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regional alarm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Arab Emirates, which normalised ties with Israel under the Trump-sponsored Abraham Accords in 2020, warned on Wednesday that annexation represented a “red line”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would foreclose the idea of regional integration and be the death knell of the two-state solution,” senior UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh said in an interview with the Times of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, US special envoy Tom Barrack admitted in a podcast interview late last month that Washington had abandoned hopes of bringing Syria into the Abraham Accords, which Bahrain and Morocco also joined under the previous Trump administration, criticising Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s reliance on “Islamic fundamentalists”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barrack, who has mediated security talks between Israel and Syria since April, also urged his ancestral homeland of Lebanon to pursue broader dialogue with Israel, warning it would otherwise “evaporate as a dinosaur”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lines demarcating national borders in the Middle East, drawn up by colonial-era powers in the early 20th century, were “meaningless” to Israel, Barrack said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They will go where they want, when they want, and do what they want to protect the Israelis and their borders.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waging “endless” military campaigns projecting across the Levant is as much about Netanyahu’s own “political survival” as anything else, according to Polimeno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Ibish does not expect recent conflicts against Hezbollah in Lebanon or Iran to be reignited. For now, “Israel would appear to have as much of a war as it needs in Gaza”, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead, efforts to recognise a Palestinian state were likely to be met “by proactive efforts to extend its sovereignty into the West Bank – that is, annexation”.</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:31:14 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>US Navy SEALS killed North Korean fishermen</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5538544</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/YMZ9JvHH.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US Navy Seals shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, The New York Times reported on Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said US President Donald Trump approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The White House, Pentagon and the US embassy in Seoul did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the report.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of Seals as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since Trump’s last summit with Kim in 2019, talks have fallen apart and North Korea has forged ahead with its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said he could not confirm or deny anything in the Times report but said: “if there’s ever a time that we need Congress to do its appropriate oversight, it’s now.”</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:55:45 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Real heroes of World War 2. 62.5 millions victims</title>
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            <title>Emperor Xi &amp;amp; Modi meets in Tianjin.</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537861</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/oi4J3tKU.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world’s two most populous countries need to be friends, Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meeting on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, Xi told Modi that the two countries could be good neighbours and play a key part in the Global South, according to footage posted online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“China and India are two of the most ‘civilisational’ countries. We are the world’s two most populous countries and part of the Global South … It is vital to be friends, a good neighbour, and [for] the ‘dragon’ and the ‘elephant’ to come together,” Xi said in opening remarks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In opening remarks posted on social media, Modi, who is on his first trip to China in seven years, said both countries had been moving in a positive direction since last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We are committed to taking our relations forward on the basis of mutual trust, respect and sensitivity,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“After the disengagement on the border, an atmosphere of peace and stability has been created.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discussions took place at around noon and lasted nearly an hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ties between the two countries nosedived after a deadly border clash in 2020, but Beijing and New Delhi have sought to mend fences in the past year, especially as both face stiff US tariffs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The talks between Xi and Modi are not expected to resolve many major disputes, but the presence of the Indian prime minister in the northern port city is a sign of a strategic rethink to deal with geopolitical vulnerabilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, Modi will not join Xi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Beijing for a military parade on Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Washington has spent years courting New Delhi as a counterweight to Beijing, but those efforts have been undermined this year by the White House’s decision to impose 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tariffs are meant to punish India for buying Russian oil but Delhi has shown little sign of budging on the purchase, vowing to protect its national interests and reaching out to other trading partners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Modi’s stop in China follows talks in Japan, where he and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba signed an economic security initiative for their countries to work together on semiconductors, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, clean energy and pharmaceuticals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tokyo also pledged US&amp;#036;67 billion in new investment in India over the next decade and to transfer new Shinkansen “E10 series” high-speed train technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, the leaders renewed a 2008 security declaration aimed at keeping the Indo-Pacific free from regional threats, focusing on the management of technology on emerging fronts such as space and cybersecurity.</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:25:30 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Chyna&amp;#39;s citizens have &amp;#036;22 trillions in savings</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537745</link>
            <description>Fuyoh, never knew Chyna citizens are richer than Chyna or the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://i.ibb.co/xS3XJs2T/1001277214.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:11:05 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Trump&amp;#39; son Eric Trump says Bitcoin to reach &amp;#036;1mill</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537674</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:45:31 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Chyna to have 300000 driver less robotaxis by 2030</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537649</link>
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            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:11:23 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Chyna fast food market growing, expanding rapidly</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537639</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/aLjE8uaD.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fast-food brand Subway&amp;#39;s recently opened store in Shanghai marked its 1,000th outlet in China, with the restaurant chain on track to reach its target of 4,000 stores in the country in the next 20 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The development marks a shift for Subway in China, spurring rapid expansion in a market that was previously dominated by global quick-service giants such as McDonald&amp;#39;s and KFC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From its debut in 1995 until mid-2023, Subway&amp;#39;s growth in China had been slow, reaching only 500 stores over 28 years. In contrast, competitors like McDonald&amp;#39;s and KFC opened thousands of locations, capitalising on the growing middle-income group and urbanisation of tier-1 and tier-2 cities in the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Subway&amp;#39;s fortunes took a sharp turn for the better in June 2023, when the company signed a transformative franchise agreement with Shanghai-based Furuishi Enterprise Development Co Ltd, which accelerated its footprint, leading to an explosion of new store openings. Within just two years, Subway added nearly 500 new locations, a total comparable to its combined growth over the previous three decades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subway is expected to open about 300 new stores by the end of this year. Under the new agreement, Subway stores in China have adopted the direct operating model, rather than the previously used franchising model, allowing faster expansion, better brand-building capability and higher profit margins for the brand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This rapid expansion reflects the broader surge in Western fast-food chains across China. According to the Hongcan Industry Research Institute&amp;#39;s 2025 Western Fast-Food Report, the number of Western fast-food outlets in China reached 325,000 by March 2025, growing 6.6 percent year-on-year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subway&amp;#39;s robust performance mirrors this trend, as Subway China CEO Zhu Fuqiang said that new locations are becoming profitable within their first year, with first-half 2024 sales increasing by more than 30 percent year-on-year. Even excluding the impact of new openings, Subway&amp;#39;s existing restaurants posted a healthy 20 percent growth in the second half of 2023.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rapid pace of Subway&amp;#39;s expansion in China is echoed by the performance of other international quick-service chains. Yum China Holdings Inc, the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut, reported solid results in its latest quarterly earnings release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Total system sales for the second quarter of 2025 grew 4 percent to &amp;#036;2.8 billion, with 336 net new store openings, pushing the company&amp;#39;s total store count to nearly 17,000 by June 30. Operating profit grew 14 percent year-on-year to &amp;#036;304 million, a second-quarter record high.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yum China CEO Joey Wat attributed much of the company&amp;#39;s success to its digital innovations and an expanding footprint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We are continuously exploring ways to broaden our addressable market,&amp;quot; said Wat. She said KFC&amp;#39;s expansion of KCOFFEE cafes to over 1,300 locations and Pizza Hut&amp;#39;s upgraded menu have significantly contributed to sustained growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Delivery sales grew 22 percent, contributing roughly 45 percent of total company sales, and digital sales hit &amp;#036;2.4 billion, accounting for an impressive 94 percent of total sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, Yum China&amp;#39;s membership program, which has about 560 million members across KFC and Pizza Hut, has proven instrumental in driving repeat business, with member sales accounting for 64 percent of system sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McDonald&amp;#39;s has also seen marked success in the Chinese market, with executives reporting meaningful improvements in both market share and same-store sales. The company opened a net 407 new restaurants in the first half of 2025, maintaining a pace of at least two new locations per day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This expansion is part of McDonald&amp;#39;s long-term roadmap to reach 10,000 locations by 2028. McDonald&amp;#39;s Corp Global CFO Ian Borden said that chicken products have become a key traffic driver for the brand, which continues to gain share not only in chicken, but across the broader fast-food sector.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McDonald&amp;#39;s remains optimistic about China&amp;#39;s growth potential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a recent statement, McDonald&amp;#39;s China highlighted its loyalty program as a key factor in its performance, with the company noting that the program had become a &amp;quot;best-practice model&amp;quot; for its global operations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By year-end, McDonald&amp;#39;s plans to enter the Ningxia Hui autonomous region and Qinghai province, achieving 100 percent coverage of all provincial-level administrative areas on the Chinese mainland. The chain is expected to open 1,000 new restaurants this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, Restaurant Brands International, the parent company of quick-service chain Burger King, is also making strides in China. CEO Joshua Kobza highlighted the progress at Burger King China in the second quarter of 2025, where same store comparable sales turned positive, and unit economics improved quarter-over-quarter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wider Western quick-service food chain boom in China, as evidenced by the performance of McDonald&amp;#39;s, Yum China and Subway, also highlights the changing consumption patterns and eating habits of Chinese consumers, according to industry research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roolee Lu, director of food &amp;amp; drink and food services, Mintel China, said since the start of 2025, restaurant revenue has shown only modest growth, and consumer confidence has improved only slightly. However, leading brands have continued their expansion over the past 12 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Western-style quick-service chains have fared best. Their mature, standardized operating systems, sharp price-value positioning and relentlessly refreshed menus allowed them to deliver the steadiest growth in an otherwise sluggish landscape,&amp;quot; said Lu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Major chains have increasingly turned to discounting: McDonald&amp;#39;s 9.9 yuan (&amp;#036;1.38) burger-and-snack deals, Pizza Hut&amp;#39;s buy-one-get-one offers, and, in late 2024, McDonald&amp;#39;s announced its 2025 Value Year campaign, while Pizza Hut launched its value-oriented WOW sub-brand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;These giants leverage scale and brand power to protect margins, even as they trade margin for traffic,&amp;quot; she added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, Western food faces growing competition. Against the backdrop of surging &amp;quot;China-chic&amp;quot; dining trends, 18-24 year olds are drifting away from Western fare, said Lu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Mintel&amp;#39;s 2023 fast-food study, this group&amp;#39;s preference for Western food has fallen to parity with, or even below, Chinese cuisine. More worrying, this same demographic shows the highest likelihood of becoming ultra-frequent users of Chinese fast food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If this trend persists, Western brands risk losing market share among the demographic that once fueled their growth, said Lu. - China Daily/ANN</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:55:35 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Chyna&amp;#39;s futuristic Cyber Punk cities tourist fav</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537630</link>
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            <title>Top Type M robotics scientist brain drain to Chyna</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537526</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2025/08/28/xfVkpx.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China leads the world in adding wind turbine capacity, is home to the busiest container ports and excels at deep-sea science.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Malaysian robotics scientist, Professor Mohd Rizal Arshad, who relocated to China this year, the growing number of underwater structures and deep-sea explorations hold great potential for marine robot applications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The future is in the ocean,” the ocean robotics expert said. He envisions the sea as a future source of drinking water, food, minerals and power such as wave energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rizal said China had a robust ecosystem that enabled the swift translation of research into industry applications, fostered direct engagement with businesses to tackle real-world challenges and gave easy access to components for building prototypes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The marine engineer joined Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University’s Entrepreneur College in Taicang in the eastern province of Jiangsu, as the dean of the school of robotics in February.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After completing his education in Britain, he researched control and robotic systems for 26 years in Malaysia, developing underwater submersibles, cable and non-cable underwater vehicles, floating robots and crawler robots for the seabed, among other intelligent marine robots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“China is a big country with a large maritime area as well as big rivers and lakes,” Rizal said, pointing to the great potential need for mapping the waters and inspecting underwater structures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China accounts for nearly half of the global offshore wind capacity, which reached 78.5 gigawatts by the end of last year, according to the Global Offshore Wind Report 2024 released by the World Forum Offshore Wind in April.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Late last year, the world’s most powerful floating offshore wind turbine went into operation in Jiangsu province. The turbine boasts a wind wheel with a diameter of 260 metres (853 feet) and can produce 62 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, according to state news agency Xinhua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seven out of the world’s top 10 container ports by volume are in China, according to the trade association World Shipping Council, including Shanghai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Port Klang on the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia, ranks 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With experience in designing solutions for port inspection in Malaysia, Rizal said he hoped to use his expertise to provide affordable and regular underwater inspection services for Chinese ports, using robotics and AI technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In general, the supporting structures of the port platform could pose major issues with ports that are often overlooked,” Rizal said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They may be corroding and the concrete may be falling, but because these areas are under the platform, they are rarely inspected. But when they have a problem, it is going to be very costly and probably fatal for some people.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said he planned to approach Chinese ports to develop solutions based on their needs, noting their structural integrity risks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ports are not a very static infrastructure. It is static, but big cargo ships are banging the platform and heavy loads are moving on the platform,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“That is what we are proposing [to Chinese ports]. In some of the ports that we have worked with, they now put more emphasis on inspection.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said China’s robust ecosystem accelerated the rapid transformation of innovative research into practical industrial products, an advantage for researchers who aimed to solve real-world problems with science, making China a natural choice for robotics researchers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“China provides a fertile ground for new research to be developed,” Rizal said, pointing to the competitive nature of the robotics industry with companies racing to bring research output outside the laboratory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“China’s robotics technology development and its incorporation or adoption into the industry is a very short cycle. That means a lot of new robotic technologies are being utilised in the industry and society and adapted to real consumer products,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“This is very unique because in my own experience in Malaysia, and in a number of countries, normally it takes quite a long time before some new research findings can be converted into real industry use and adopted by the industry.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rizal also said being able to connect with the industry first-hand was “a very strong point that will basically be difficult to be matched by others outside China”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“This is a very fertile, strong environment that will provide opportunities for us to learn and get to the actual problem in the industry because there is a lot of intensive discussion and engagement in the industry,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“For researchers, the most important thing is to know the problem statement – what the exact problem you are solving is,” Rizal said, adding that without engaging with the industry, academics often created “imaginary problems” based on secondary information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“When we do research independently, we try to push out the technology to industry. This is very challenging because the industry may not want our solution,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In terms of hardware, Rizal said easy access to components in China made robotics research more efficient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Compared to when I was in Malaysia, when I want to integrate [a robotic system], sometimes I have to buy parts from China and the US; we spend a lot of time waiting for things to arrive and there is no guarantee of a fit,” he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rizal said the mature research ecosystem in China also fostered the growth of emerging research areas such as autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Describing AI as the brain of robots, he said robotic systems should be equipped with decision-making abilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It is like us humans: we can have big muscles and a very strong body. But if the brain does not work, we would not work well,” Rizal said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“A flying robot should decide how fast to fly and stabilise itself while an autonomous vehicle or a walking humanoid should decide if it should stop, jump or turn back when it sees a big hole in front of it.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the waters, AI engines could classify, filter and analyse a large amount of data to make decisions based on information such as water volume, temperature, acidity and dynamic movement of the water column, he said. “This intelligent component backbone is critical to robotic systems,” Rizal added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for deep-sea exploration, he said while he understood the sensitivity of the research area, as a foreign scientist in China, he hoped to contribute to the general design of control algorithms, navigation systems and underwater acoustic sensors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Mining activities on land are very risky, digging into the mountains and creating big, open mines, whereas the ocean holds a lot more resources,” Rizal said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Deep-water mining is a very strategic industry for many countries like China, India and Japan,” he said, pointing to manganese nodules – deposits of economically valuable metals such as manganese oxides, iron, cobalt, nickel and copper – “lying on the seabed” at depths of around 5,000 metres.</description>
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            <title>How do you report those abusing the report button?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5537050</link>
            <description>As per topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cincangkan terangkan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terima kasi.</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:16:58 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>McDonald&amp;#39;s RM 5.95 only, Burger, fries 🍟 &amp;amp; drink</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/0</link>
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            <category>Serious Kopitiam</category>
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            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5533142</link>
            <description>Klasik Meal At A Klasik Price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;T&amp;amp;C: Default with Medium Fries &amp;amp; Medium Coke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/mSqTKByW.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:56:12 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>3 days battery life Fon. Not bad right only RM 1k</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5532689</link>
            <description>3 days battery life, 14.5 hours SOT, mostly Aloha browser, Facebook, Shopee &amp;amp; Google maps. Only RM 1k in Shopee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cincangkan &amp;amp; good night. Eyes vision blurry Liao. Zzzzzz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/Yiwp6yPa.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:46:37 +0800</pubDate>
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            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5532657</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/uNQM6zvc.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GLOBAL&lt;br /&gt;China mula bina loji kuasa hidroelektrik terbesar dunia&lt;br /&gt;20 Julai 2025 04:15pm&lt;br /&gt;Masa membaca: 2 minit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pembinaan projek tersebut dilakukan di bahagian hilir Sungai Yarlung Tsangpo di Wilayah Autonomi Tibet.&lt;br /&gt;Untuk berita terkini Sinar Harian, ikuti di Telegram dan TikTok kami&lt;br /&gt;BEIJING - China secara rasmi memulakan pembinaan projek hidroelektrik di bahagian hilir Sungai Yarlung Tsangpo di Wilayah Autonomi Tibet, barat daya negara itu, dengan jumlah pelaburan kira-kira 1.2 trilion yuan (kira-kira AS&amp;#036;167.2 bilion - RM709.9 bilion), menurut kenyataan di laman sesawang Majlis Negara Republik Rakyat China, lapor Sputnik/RIA Novosti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Perdana Menteri China Li Qiang pada Sabtu mengumumkan permulaan pembinaan projek hidrokuasa di bahagian hilir Sungai Yarlung Zangbo,” menurut kenyataan itu.&lt;br /&gt;Difahamkan projek itu akan melibatkan lima loji kuasa hidroelektrik lata dengan jumlah pelaburan dianggarkan sekitar 1.2 trilion yuan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tenaga yang dijana akan dibekalkan terutamanya untuk kegunaan luar, selain memenuhi keperluan tempatan di Tibet.&lt;br /&gt;Pembinaan projek hidroelektrik itu dikendalikan oleh China Yajiang Group Co yang juga bertanggungjawab mengoperasikan kemudahan itu selepas siap dibina.&lt;br /&gt;Ketika ini, loji kuasa hidroelektrik terbesar di dunia ialah Sanxia (Three Gorges) yang terletak di Sungai Yangtze, Wilayah Hubei, tengah China.&lt;br /&gt;Kapasiti reka bentuk loji itu ialah 22.4 juta kilowatt dan pembinaannya siap pada Oktober 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Media China sebelum ini melaporkan bahawa kapasiti terpasang yang dirancang bagi loji baharu itu ialah 60 juta kilowatt, hampir tiga kali ganda kapasiti Sanxia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Projek itu telah menimbulkan kebimbangan di New Delhi sebelum pembinaannya dilancarkan secara rasmi.&lt;br /&gt;Pada awal Januari, Kementerian Hal Ehwal Luar India menyatakan bahawa New Delhi sedang memantau rancangan China untuk membina stesen janakuasa hidroelektrik terbesar dunia di Wilayah Autonomi Tibet dan menggesa Beijing supaya tidak menjejaskan kepentingan New Delhi serta negara lain dalam pembinaan kemudahan itu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sungai Yarlung Tsangpo sepanjang 1,700 kilometer berpunca dari glasier Jima Yangzong berhampiran Gunung Kailash di barat daya Tibet, mengalir ke Sungai Sing di India, kemudian ke Sungai Brahmaputra dan seterusnya ke Bangladesh. - Bernama &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Muat turun aplikasi Sinar Harian. Klik di sini&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;Dapatkan baucar tunai dengan menjawab soalan kajian selidik&lt;br /&gt;×&lt;br /&gt;Apakah jantina anda?&lt;br /&gt;Lelaki&lt;br /&gt;Perempuan&lt;br /&gt;Masuk | Daftar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IklanE-PaperLangganPengiklananiklan@sinarharian.com.my&lt;br /&gt;Instagram Sinar Harian&lt;br /&gt;© 2025 All Rights Reserved • Karangkraf Group • © 2025 Hakcipta Terpelihara • Kumpulan Karangkraf&lt;br /&gt;News Hub</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:13:47 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Mcdonalds manager killed by co worker</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5531710</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/NYjbPryK.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. News&lt;br /&gt;McDonald’s manager fatally stabbed by co-worker at Detroit-area restaurant&lt;br /&gt;By Katie Scott  Global News&lt;br /&gt;Posted July 12, 2025 1:13 pm&lt;br /&gt;3 min read&lt;br /&gt;A file photo of the Detroit-area McDonald&amp;#39;s restaurant where Jennifer Harris, a 39-year-old mother of six, was fatally stabbed. FILE / Getty Images&lt;br /&gt;Leave a comment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A manager at a Detroit-area McDonald’s restaurant was stabbed to death Thursday morning by a co-worker after an argument, according to police.&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Harris, a 39-year-old mother of six, was allegedly stabbed multiple times by her 26-year-old co-worker Afeni Badu Muhammad at the Eastpointe restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;The incident occurred around 8 a.m. after Harris, who worked at the restaurant for 15 years, reportedly sent Muhammad home prior to the end of her scheduled shift.&lt;br /&gt;In a media release, prosecutors alleged Muhammad returned to the restaurant with a knife and wearing a mask. She entered the building through the employee entrance and then allegedly stabbed Harris multiple times.&lt;br /&gt;“A customer at the drive-through window was lawfully carrying a concealed weapon. The customer fired his weapon to try to stop the assault,” the statement continued.&lt;br /&gt;Muhammad fled to a vehicle but was stopped by the armed customer, who held her at gunpoint until police arrived.&lt;br /&gt;“The suspect stopped stabbing the victim. She dropped the knife and started running away. The good Samaritan actually showed courage by running after the suspect and was able to detain her until officers arrived,” Eastpointe Police Detective Lt. Alexander Holish said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harris was taken to a hospital, where she died from her injuries.&lt;br /&gt;Yusef Alcodray, the owner and operator of the Eastpoint McDonald’s, released a statement to CBS News, saying, “We are deeply saddened by this tragic incident, and our hearts go out to the victim’s family and loved ones.”&lt;br /&gt;“Violence of any kind is unacceptable in my restaurants, and we are taking this matter extremely serious, as the safety and well-being of our employees and customers is our top priority,” Alcodray added. “We are fully cooperating with law enforcement as they conduct their investigation, and the restaurant will remain closed until further notice.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“She was the best mom anybody could ever ask for,” Griffin said. “My momma, she woke up every day to work for us. My momma died trying to take care of us.”&lt;br /&gt;Prosecutor Peter Lucido called the incident a “senseless and heartbreaking” tragedy.&lt;br /&gt;“This is a family shattered, a future forever altered. It is deeply troubling that we continue to see violence used as a response to conflict,” Lucido said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“This should not be normal, and it must not be accepted as the status quo. Our office is committed to pursuing justice for the victim and her family… People have to understand that their lives, and the lives of others, have value. This tragedy should serve as a call to action for all of us.”&lt;br /&gt;Muhammad was arraigned Friday on charges of first-degree premeditated murder and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, the Macomb County prosecutor’s office said in a release.&lt;br /&gt;She is being held in the Macomb County Jail on a &amp;#036;25-million bond. A judge entered a not -guilty plea at her arraignment on Friday, according to court records.&lt;br /&gt;“There are a lot of things that need to come to light regarding this matter,”  Matthew Licata, Muhammed’s lawyer at the arraignment, told The Associated Press.&lt;br /&gt;Muhammad has a probable cause conference on July 23 and a preliminary examination on July 30.&lt;br /&gt;— With files from The Associated Press&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:06:36 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Waited 1 hour++ for this Pulau Tikus Champion CKT</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5530658</link>
            <description>My mom tapao for me, she waited over an hour for this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m not a food critic, the CKT tasted ordinary &amp;amp; not so greasy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/3gdgBEJg.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:13:07 +0800</pubDate>
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            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5530455</link>
            <description>Latest silicone carbide radar. Chyna number 1 in rare earth tech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/ABKjuTUT.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:06:01 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Guy buy Vivo X Fold 3 Pro 1TB but get umbrella</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5530183</link>
            <description>Was scrolling through a Shopee sellers who sells really cheap China ROM Fon &amp;amp; saw this comment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you guys think. Cincangkan. 100marks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://thumbsnap.com/i/C5pK86NE.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Video]https://thumbsnap.com/i/b6MtYMPv.mp4[/video]</description>
            <author>Syok Your Mom</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:11:09 +0800</pubDate>
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