Hong Kong property giant New World Development has formed a joint venture that will establish a pan-Asian network of data centres in emerging markets, helping close the infrastructure gap with the West and connect a fast-growing population of digital c...
China’s political elite will gather in Beijing this week for the year’s biggest legislative set piece facing a number of major political challenges, including the aftermath of the coronavirus and the ongoing rivalry with the United States. In this late...
Smartphone giant Xiaomi has revived its defunct instant messaging app MiTalk as a social audio chat platform for professionals, a move that comes weeks after Clubhouse was banned in China.The app was relaunched just eight days after the company shut do...
ByteDance has punished thousands of accounts on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, for flaunting wealth in short videos.The Beijing-based company said it had removed more than 2,800 such videos and punished nearly 4,000 accounts since the start of ...
2020 was not an easy year for Chinese tech companies: many came under scrutiny and received queries from market investors and government officials. Yet these internet giants’ difficulties hardly matched those faced by some of their employees. The trag...
Huawei at Mobile World Congress ShanghaiMWC Shanghai, the regional edition of the world’s biggest mobile industry trade show, kicked off on Tuesday amid the ongoing US-China tech war, providing a major showcase for the latest innovation from the likes ...
ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of Tiktok, plans to supercharge its online education unit with a hiring spree to recruit some 13,000 employees as the company seeks to diversify its revenue streams.Of the total new employees, ByteDance said it will h...
Tech entrepreneurs at China’s biggest annual political gala next week will be under pressure on two fronts as Beijing pushes its national strategy of technology independence while ratcheting up regulatory scrutiny of their business operations.This year...
A geographic split of global 5G standards is not likely to happen, despite the ongoing trade and tech dispute between Washington and Beijing, according to a senior official of telecommunications trade body GSM Association.The participation of Chinese c...
Years of aggressive moves by Bilibili to transform into a more mainstream video-streaming platform with diversified revenue streams are paying off, with advertising revenues more than doubling in the fourth quarter of 2020, which could be welcome news ...