The Brazilian farm state of Goias rolled out a pilot project on Thursday to increase productivity and take fast action against disease using fifth-generation technology and equipment provided by China’s Huawei Technologies Co.The roll-out of the agricu...
Several Chinese cities have moved to tighten regulations on the use of facial recognition personal data in line with stricter laws being introduced by the central government to limit the abuse of personal data collection.Tianjin, one of China’s four mu...
The anime role-playing action game Genshin Impact has won the best game award for 2020 from both Google Play and Apple’s App Store, extending the winning streak of Chinese-developed games for a third consecutive year.Genshin Impact’s success follows on...
Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, has announced that it is launching China’s first regular cross-border medical cold chain route, which will be able to transport Covid-19 vaccines.The ...
China’s second-biggest mobile phone maker Xiaomi raised nearly US$4 billion overnight in a combined sale of shares and convertible bonds in the biggest top-up funding placement in Hong Kong to replenish its financial war chest, according to documents f...
Apple has hired Josh Elman, a former venture capitalist at Greylock Partners who led early investments in TikTok precursor Musical.ly, to work on the App Store.Elman’s role will focus on app discovery for customers, he said in a statement on Monday.He ...
On December 1, 2018 Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ CFO and daughter to founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested at Vancouver airport as she changed planes en route to Mexico. Infuriating Beijing, which retaliated by arresting two Canadian nationals, the ...
Streaming-media platform Bilibili and microblogging site Weibo have removed user-generated videos of a 69-year-old tai chi master, Ma Baoguo, who state media accused of “poisoning” China’s values.The two popular internet platforms said over the weekend...
China will account for nearly 80 per cent – or 175 million – of a projected 220 million global 5G subscriptions by the end of the year, according to a new report by Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson.“We have increased our estimate for...
This week’s round up of our top stories includes comments by Huawei’s founder about the recent sale of its Honor budget brand, China claiming to overtake the US in artificial intelligence patents, and indications that Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will be ...