Alson Cai

China’s electric car market has boomed with the introduction of incentives which, together with other ongoing measures, are lowering air pollution and driving the country toward a net zero future. Although Europe leads the way in electric vehicle (EV) sales with 1.4 million new registrations in 2020, China remains the biggest national market for EVs, with 44 per cent of all the EVs sold in the world (more than 4.5 million).

Alson Cai was hoping to resume her studies at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), next week. But like so many international students, she’s stuck in China because of the deadly outbreak of coronavirus. Alson, a second-year journalism student, filed this photo essay from the city of Shantou, the economic centre of Guangdong Province on China’s eastern coast. It’s just over 1000 kms by road (12 hours drive) from Wuhan, where the virus was first identified.

As UTS warns above, emails and promises like these are often more sinister than just spamming. New research by Deakin University found students are simply being scammed. Academics Wendy Sutherland-Smith and Kevin Dullaghan purchased 54 assignments from 18 different contract cheating sites for their study. “Many sites do not deliver assignments on time, or at all,” they found.