Chinese bitcoin miners found ways to adapt to last year’s ban, using foreign proxy services to maintain low-key mining activity.
The man said he had gambled away the money and his failure to pay back has now sparked discussions on the country's talk shows about the intricacies of his financial situation.
The nuclear-armed nation lacks virus tests and other health care resources, prompting speculations that the actual situation might be worse than what is officially being reported.
Kim Jong-un slams "non-positive attitude, slackness and non-activity" of North Korean bureaucrats for worsening Covid outbreak in the East Asian country.
The country reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be Covid-19 and encouraged good health habits as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population.
Researchers find that circular cities get more rain than square ones, and triangular ones get the least.
Retail sales shrank 11.1 percent on year in April as the world's second-largest economy saw its biggest slump since March 2020.
Pyongyang reported 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilises over a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country’s first Covid-19 outbreak.
The Asian Football Confederation praised China for the "difficult choice" to withdraw as the country battles to stamp out the virus with rapid lockdowns and mass testing.
North Korean leader Kim in a meeting called for unity between the government and people to stabilize the outbreak as quickly as possible.
White House is still finalising details of President Biden's Asia schedule, US officials say, but a trip to the heavily fortified DMZ separating the two Koreas is a step that is taken by many who visit the region.
Pyongyang says six people died, one with confirmed Covid and nearly 190,000 are under quarantine following an "explosive" spread of fever across the East Asian nation, a day after declaring Covid outbreak in a largely unvaccinated population.
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