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China’s BeiDou satellite navigation system – its home-grown alternative to the US-run Global Positioning System – has been adopted in about 90 per cent of “key industry” applications nationwide, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In a social media post on Wednesday that also reposted a re
China has told its citizens to immediately leave Eswatini, citing security risks in the African nation that is one of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic allies. China claims Taiwan is part of its territory and opposes the self-governed island’s attempts at international exchange. Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te travelle
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has issued warning letters to three domestic workers after they used their employers’ personal data without consent to secure loans. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) said in a press conference on Tuesday that it has been following three cases concerning foreig
After a year in which the KMT delayed the budget for 266 days beyond the deadline, with the eventual passage of the budget on August 14th, substantial cuts were still imposed by the KMT
DeepSeek is nearing the completion of a new funding round valuing the company at about 500 billion yuan (US$74 billion) before investment, as the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up moves closer to a potential listing on Shanghai’s Star Market, according to people familiar with the matter. The company was seeking
The vast majority of the global public wants international cooperation on human rights, climate and AI. Like-minded countries must stand together to deliver Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is already having to make one of his gravest decisions. He has to issue the instructions that he alone gives to the mil
Airports in China’s Zhejiang and Fujian provinces remained on high alert for potential delays and cancellations as Typhoon Saudel approached landfall on Wednesday, after multiple flights were cancelled in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Saudel, which entered the East China Sea early on Wednesday morning, prompted the cancellatio
China said on Tuesday it would safeguard its interests after Washington laid out plans for the "economic asphyxiation" of Iran. Almost six months into its war with Iran, the United States issued new penalties on some entities including in China and expanded secondary sanctions threats, urging governments worldwide to j
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Long before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective. The result was an encyclopaedia spanning 127 volumes known as the Tushu Bian, or Compendium of Illustrations and Texts. The work – published in 1613 – was compiled by Neo-Confucian scholar Zhang Hu
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (August 26) that samples of a batch of prepackaged milk were found with a colony count exceeding the legal limit. The affected product has been marked and sealed, and has not entered the market. The CFS is following up on
Hong Kong stocks rose on Wednesday, tracking gains on Wall Street overnight as tech shares rebounded, though uncertainties over US-Iran war still kept investors cautious. The city's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 124 points, or around 0.5 percent, to open at 25,635 points. The tech gauge advanced 34 points, or 0.75 per
The Health Bureau (HHB) released Hong Kong's Domestic Health Accounts (DHA) 2024/25 today (August 26), together with revised figures for previous years adjusted in accordance with international practice to incorporate the latest available information. The DHA provides a systematic description of the flow of health expe
Attention TV/radio announcers: Please broadcast the following as soon as possible: Here is an item of interest to swimmers. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced today (August 25) that due to big waves, red flags have been hoisted at Deep Water Bay Beach and Shek O Beach in Southern District, Hong Kong
China’s Huawei Technologies and US personal computer giant HP announced on Wednesday that they had reached a deal to license each other’s Wi-fi patents. The two companies signed a multi-year global patent cross-licensing agreement, which granted HP the right to use certain Huawei Wi-fi patents on its PCs for a fee. “Th
XPeng's robot unit closed a record first round of more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba among strategic investors, stealing attention from the automaker's quarterly results.
Zhongqing founder Zhao Tongyang addressed the viral robot-kick video at WRC 2026, defending the robotics company's strength-first approach, its fighting league and its Apple-of-robotics strategy.
ByteDance unveiled Doubao Work, a standalone AI office app that taps into Feishu for workplace context, entering a race against Alibaba's Qwen Office, Tencent's WorkBuddy and Kingsoft's WPS Lingxi.
As China builds scores of embodied-intelligence data centers, this year's World Robot Conference showed an industry reorienting from building robot bodies to harvesting the data that trains their brains.
JD 7Fresh launched its first 24-hour unmanned robot coffee shop in Beijing, setting a Guinness record of 202 cups in an hour, while sparking debate over whether robot cafes can replace human baristas.
South Carolina Senator Darline Graham won the Republican nomination in seeking a full term on Tuesday, overcoming a rocky moment in last week’s debate, when she struggled to answer questions about Taiwan and the South China Sea. Graham, a political newcomer, was appointed to the seat in July following the unexpected de
A “widening” AI gap between advanced economies and developing countries has sparked calls to use the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation framework to develop an open, fairer and culturally sensitive governance system. Although the technology is often hailed as a great leveller in an era of sluggish economic growth, a con
Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families When law student Zhao Wei heard that her AI boyfriend was going to be switched off, she was “heartbroken”. She had been talking to Wang Ye every day since she created him in Januar