Scientists using sound recordings from underwater nuclear bomb detectors have discovered the distinct song of a previously unknown population of pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean.
June 09, 2021
General view of Mount Nicholson at 8 Mount Nicholson on The Peak.
South China Morning Post
A top executive of a Hong Kong-listed apparel company has been revealed as the buyer of a parking spot at the exclusive Mount Nicholson development on The Peak, which set a world record last month at HK$11.9 million (S$2 million) each.
Poon Ho-tak, executive director of Texwinca Holdings, bought three parking bays for HK$11.9 million each, paying a total of HK$35.7 million, according to Land Registry documents. He owns two adjoining flats with a combined area of 8,812 square feet (818 square metres) on the 12th floor of the ultra-luxury project, for which he paid HK$749 million, or HK$84,997 per square foot, in 2016.
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Environmental News For The Week Ending 05June 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: The number of new cases of Covid continues to decline briskly in most countries around the globe, despite the prevalence of more infectious strains in most regions. Deaths attributed to the virus are also falling, albeit not quite as rapidly.