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Are your loved ones in luck this year? See our predictions for all the zodiac signs in the Year of the Horse. For centuries, the most important luxury good exchanged on the Silk Road was not silk, spices or ceramics, but made of flesh, bone and thunder: horses. History’s most famous trade network should really have been called the “Horse Road”, argues David Chaffetz, an independent researcher and member of the London-based Royal Society for Asian Affairs. Contrary to common belief, he says, the...

The world is witnessing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history, with the foundation for an artificial intelligence system evolving quickly, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “We are now a few billion dollars into it,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, adding that trillions of dollars of infrastructure still had to be built. Huang said that the AI industry was a “five-layered cake”, with energy at the bottom, followed by chips, cloud infrastructure, AI models and...

China could learn from Ukraine about using drones to launch modified small and micro aerial bombs, a leading Chinese weapons expert said. Cai Yi, chief scientist of China North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco), said in an interview earlier this month that aerial bomb strikes by Ukrainian drones provided “a valuable example for observing drone warfare”. China could draw inspiration from Ukraine’s experience in developing small drone-borne bombs, Cai added in the interview, which appeared in...

Five Singaporeans are among 55 people booked for littering in Johor Bahru since January 1, as Malaysia steps up enforcement under newly gazetted rules that send offenders to court rather than allowing on-the-spot settlements. Johor Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp) director Zainal Fitri Ahmad said the Singaporeans had offered a range of excuses when caught, including claims that they were picking up rubbish rather than discarding it. “One said they were not...