President Xi meets with tech business leaders

President Xi Jinping met with private sector business leaders yesterday, state media reported, as government officials work to revive an economy disrupted by a pandemic, regulatory crackdowns

China says US has ‘gravely backpedaled’ on Taiwan

China’s Foreign Ministry took issue yesterday with a revised U.S. government fact sheet that removed a line on American opposition to independence for Taiwan. The United

Downloads of DeepSeek’s AI apps paused in S.Korea over privacy concerns

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has temporarily paused downloads of its chatbot apps in South Korea while it works with local authorities to address privacy

Gov’t plans to ban substandard tiny apartments. Low-income families fear higher rents

Jimmy Au’s world shrinks to about the size of a parking space whenever she gets home. Her cramped Hong Kong home is one of four units

Residents compete to name twin panda cubs who just turned six months old

Panda craze has once again gripped Hong Kong as residents compete to name the territory’s first locally-born giant panda cubs who just turned six months old.

New coal power plant projects hit the highest level in nearly 10 years, report says

China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy

Australia accuses Chinese fighter of endangering Australian surveillance plane

Australia has protested what it describes as an unsafe and unprofessional interaction over the South China Sea where a Chinese fighter is accused of releasing flares

Chipmaker SMIC says tariff war sparking ‘rush orders’

China’s top chipmaker says clients are stockpiling inventory and asking to move up delivery of orders scheduled for later in the year due to concerns over U.S.

A former aide to New York governors face new charges in foreign agent of China case

A former aide to two New York governors and her husband are facing additional charges in a case accusing her of acting as an agent of the Chinese

DeepSeek’s meteoric rise sparks billion-dollar debate

In less than two years, DeepSeek—a Chinese startup that began as a side project—has become the subject of heated valuation debates across the global tech community. Estimates

China says a visit by Cook Islands’ prime minister isn’t meant to antagonize others

China insisted that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire against anyone in the South

Chinese cargo ship runs aground on Russia’s Sakhalin but no spill reported

The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast. There

Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China

President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions

Rescuers search for at least 29 people after a landslide in southwest China

Chinese rescuers searched for at least 29 people after a landslide on Saturday in southwestern Sichuan province buried 10 houses and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate.

Xi and Thailand’s leader vow to crack down on scam networks that plague Southeast Asia

China’s leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra vowed to crack down on the scam networks that plague Southeast Asia as the two leaders

Fast fashion, laptops and toys likely to cost more due to US tariffs on Chinese imports

A sweeping new U.S. tariff on products made in China is expected to increase the prices American consumers pay for a wide array of products, from the ultra-cheap

Pakistan’s president says extremist attacks won’t end friendship with China

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said yesterday that his country’s friendship with China has “gone through ups and downs” but it won’t be broken down by extremist attacks that have killed Chinese

China counters with tariffs on US products and it will also investigate Google

China countered President Donald Trump’s across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports yesterday, as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and

Actress Barbie Hsu, star of the popular drama ‘Meteor Garden,’ dies at 48

Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress who starred in the popular TV drama “Meteor Garden” that once swept Asia, died after contracting pneumonia triggered by the flu.

Trump sings in Chinese and wins cheers in Hong Kong

A traditional Hong Kong theater came alive with an untraditional twist: Donald Trump singing in Chinese. On Monday night, the Cantonese opera production “Trump on Show”

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