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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.
The number of Chinese students is booming across northeastern England, sparking more cooperation between universities in China and Britain.
In some institutes, Chinese students account for up to one tenth of the total number of students enrolled, and the number is still growing.
There is also a healthy number of Chinese scholars working in the area, many of whom are involved in joint venture projects between the sister universities of China and Britain.
Jennifer Thompson from the historic Durham University says that they have always seen China as a partner in education.
At Durham, around 1,000 of its 17,000 students are from China, and it has almost 50 Chinese academic staff.
The official says that Durham academics have become well used to working with people from Chinese universities, and current tie-ups exist with a number of Chinese universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University.
Like many universities and institutions in Britain, Durham organizes regular visits by its academic staff to its sister universities in China, and visits are reciprocal. There are summer schools on campus, too, for students from China to enjoy life in Britain.
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With an uncommon view of history in action, a new documentary captures Edward Snowden's leak of NSA documents as it unfolded in a Hong Kong hotel room.
Laura Poitras' highly anticipated documentary "Citizen-four" premiered a few days ago at the New York Film Festival.
The one-of-a-kind film presents a remarkably intimate portrait of Snowden, including his first meetings with the journalists with whom he shared thousands of documents revealing the previously undisclosed collection of Americans' phone and email records by the U.S. National Security Agency.
Initially communicating under the alias "citizen-four", Snowden reached out to Poitras, a hybrid journalist-documentarian, and another reporter, from Britain's Guardian newspaper. The film shows their very first meeting with Snowden and the days that followed as his revelations made international news.
From the beginning, Snowden is seen as highly aware that such a leak would mean sacrificing his own freedom.
Snowden was charged with three felonies under the Espionage Act: unauthorized communication of national defense information, theft of government property and willful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorized person.
He is currently living in asylum in Russia.
You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
Scientists from Singapore have developed ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged up to 70 percent in only two minutes.
Furthermore, the new generation of batteries also have a long lifespan of over 20 years, over 10 times more than that of the existing lithium-ion batteries.
The scientists, at Singapore's Nanyang Technology University, say that the breakthrough has a wide-ranging impact on all industries, especially for electric vehicles, where consumers are put off by the long recharge time and limited battery life.
In the newly-developed battery, the traditional graphite used for the anode in lithium-ion batteries is replaced with a new gel material made from titanium dioxide.
Titanium dioxide is an abundant, cheap and safe material found in soil. It is commonly used as a food additive or in sunscreen lotions to absorb harmful ultraviolet rays.
Electric cars will be able to increase their range dramatically, with just five minutes of charging, which is on a par with the time needed to pump petrol for current cars.
The technology is expected to hit the market in the next two years.
