Award shows have been forced to change judging criteria amid Covid-19 crisis
Award season has been moved back to spring, allowing eligibility requirements to be extended by two months
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences lifted a longstanding requirement that films needed to screen for seven straight days in Los Angeles
Films likely to be nominated include Da 5 Bloods, Mank and Nomadland
Kazakh scientists recently
made a breakthrough by creating a 3D visualization tool that helps blind people
‘see’. However, to take the technology to the next level, they are relying on Kazakhstan’s
strong relations with Southeast Asia and Singapore in particular.
Al-Farabi Ydyryshev, director-general
of Kazakhstan’s National Center for Technology told
ASEAN Today, “Beyond
investing in R&D [research and development], there remains another big
challenge to get our technology past our shores. The goal of every invention is,
after all, to make a far-reaching impact on people’s lives. What we need is
cross-border collaborations.”
Giving sight back to