Tag: #Games
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Women cricket to make debut in 2022 Commonwealth Games
ISLAMABAD, Jul 28 (APP):The 2022 Commonwealth Games, which will feature the reintroduction of cricket in the form of an eight-team women’s competition, is set to commence exactly two years from today in Birmingham. The Commonwealth Games will be the latest in a series of major global sporting events in England in recent years, including the…
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Child’s play: Coding booms among Chinese children
Beijing, Dec 13 (AFP/APP): Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a red T-shirt, an eight-year-old Chinese boy is logged in for an online coding lesson — as the teacher. Vita has set up a coding tutorial channel on the Chinese video streaming site Bilibili since August and has so far garnered nearly 60,000 followers…
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Nintendo first-half sales leap on
Tokyo, Oct 31 (AFP/APP): Japanese gaming giant Nintendo said Thursday its first-half sales were boosted by demand for its a smaller, cheaper version of its popular Switch console. Sales for April-September gained 14.2 percent from a year earlier to 444.0 billion yen ($4.1 billion) while operating profit surged 53.4 percent to 94.2 billion yen. The…