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Wed, October 27, 2021 | 19:15

Tesla promises new China data center in Shanghai

Tesla, the electric vehicle maker founded by Elon Musk, will build a data centre in Shanghai by the end of June to handle data collected from its EVs amid greater public scrutiny of how personal information is handled and after Beijing pushed for local storage of data gathered by smart vehicles in the country.

2021-04-21 13:56

$1,500 haircut, $61,000 suit: Chinese TikTok influencers apologize for videos of lavish spending

Several Chinese TikTok celebrities have apologised for promoting the worship of money and consumption after being criticised by state media for videos depicting their extravagant lifestyles.

2021-04-20 13:44

China's job market improves, but young people still face 'pressure'

China's job market has improved steadily since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic there in early 2020, but it is still struggling with a shortage of labor and a high number of unemployed graduates.

2021-04-17 15:19

Hong Kong rugby players turn to food delivery business to support dog shelters

A new dog food delivery business, set up by rugby players, is doing more than dropping bags off at your front door. They are feeding all the dogs at Catherine's Puppies shelter and plan to support more shelters. "We put it down as a goal of feeding all of Catherine's Puppies, but how realistic we had no idea because it's the first time we've done it and it just took off," sai...

2021-04-16 21:09

'Declare yourself Hongkonger, not simply Chinese': Canadian census

People of Hong Kong origin in Canada have been urged to declare themselves as Hongkongers, and not only Chinese, on the national census next month, in an effort by activists to preserve the diaspora's "unique identity". The "I Am Hong Konger" campaign, launched this week, asks immigrants and their descendants to specify their Hong Kong origins in the sections of the census qu...

2021-04-16 21:05

Can Huawei transform itself from hardware giant into a leading services provider with cloud?

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co is taking time to set strategy for its cloud business as the Shenzhen-based company pushes ahead with a broader effort to turn itself from a hardware maker into a services provider in the face of harsh US sanctions. Huawei formally disbanded its cloud and AI business group earlier this month - just one year after its creation - an...

2021-04-15 13:58

China flies 25 warplanes into Taiwan's airspace, the largest incursion yet

China's People Liberation Army flew 25 warplanes into Taiwan's air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday, its largest incursion yet as tension in the Taiwan Strait continues to escalate. According to Taiwan's defence ministry, the PLA warplanes - 14 Jian-16 fighter jets, four Jian-10s, four H-6K bombers, two Y-8 anti-submarine warfare planes and one KJ-500 airborne ear...

2021-04-13 14:17

China's revolutionary mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 may hit market within this year

China is on course to produce its own version of the revolutionary new vaccines that use genetic technology to stimulate the immune system by the end of the year, according to a senior industry figure. The two available mRNA vaccines designed to tackle Covid-19 - produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech - have a higher efficacy rate than those produced using other forms of tec...

2021-04-11 14:35

Northeast Asia power grid could slash cost of green energy: study

A super power grid connecting all the countries of northeast Asia would make renewable energy as cheap and available as coal, according to a new study by Chinese scientists. As a region, northeast Asia, which comprises China, Russia, Mongolia, South Korea, North Korea and Japan, consumes about a third of the world's energy and the industry estimates its annual electricity dem...

2021-04-11 14:11

US karate champ Sakura Kokumai told to 'go home' in anti-Asian rant as she trains for Tokyo Olympics

US Olympian Sakura Kokumai has revealed more details around an incident where she was racially abused by a stranger while training in a California park last week.

2021-04-10 15:11

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