Heineken signs 3bn deal with China's biggest brewery

Dutch brewing giant Heineken NV announced on Friday it would give China Resources Beer, the country’s biggest brewer, exclusive rights to use its Heineken brand in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, in a deal worth US$3.1 billion. The region... | Continue reading


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China Uses Robotic Doves to Spy

Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region | Continue reading


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Changing of the Guard at the Gates of the Great Firewall

Zhuang Rongwen’s appointment to top job at Cyberspace Administration will make him a key point of contact for tech firms looking to do business in China | Continue reading


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China will take part in Australian War Games

China accepts offer to join 26 other countries in exercise off Australian north coast despite recent strains in relations between Canberra and Beijing | Continue reading


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Bruce Lee – How being Chinese counted against him in Hollywood

The American film industry had long been racist. Lee thought he could change that, but studio bosses doubted US audiences would accept a non-American hero. The worldwide success of Enter the Dragon came too late | Continue reading


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AI is helping to make China's foreign policy

The programme draws on a huge amount of data, with information ranging from cocktail-party gossip to images taken by spy satellites, to contribute to strategies in Chinese diplomacy | Continue reading


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China's two big tradewar mistakes may lead to middle-income trap

After misjudging Donald Trump and misjudging the alliance between Washington and Brussels, Beijing needs to act fast, writes Zhang Lin | Continue reading


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China brings 10,000 teachers out of retirement to teach in rural areas

Policy to send ‘outstanding’ educators to schools in the countryside for at least a year is part of government drive to ease poverty in remote areas | Continue reading


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How Chinese students who return after studying abroad succeed–and why they don’t

David Zweig and Zoe Ge say Chinese students are returning home in droves after studying overseas, but whether they earn more and are satisfied with their lives depends on choice of major, work experience abroad and their reasons for returning | Continue reading


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Hong Kong’s industrialists are moving out of China to safer havens in trade war

Malaysia, Vietnam and lower-cost economies in Southeast Asia are the new home for many Hong Kong manufacturers | Continue reading


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Did China think Donald Trump was bluffing on trade? How Beijing got it wrong

With China and the United States at the centre of the biggest international trade dispute in decades, the South China Morning Post takes an in-depth look at the changing relationship between Beijing and Washington. In the second of a two-part series, Wendy Wu and Kristin Huang ex … | Continue reading


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CHINA HAS NO IDEA How to PLAY TRUMP

In the past, Beijing has reacted to economic challenges by opening its credit spigot and letting the money flow, and that’s what it has started doing this time too even though the mess from the last crisis is yet to be cleared | Continue reading


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Alibaba’s Jack Ma on China’s Economy, HK and the SCMP: Full Q&A (2016)

On the South China Morning Post and the media... | Continue reading


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Many Chinese companies ‘will go bankrupt’, if US delivers on tariff threats

Judiciary must ready itself for possible fallout from China-US trade row, mouthpiece of Beijing’s top court says | Continue reading


@scmp.com | 5 years ago

Many Chinese companies ‘will go bankrupt’, if US delivers on tariff threats

Judiciary must ready itself for possible fallout from China-US trade row, mouthpiece of Beijing’s top court says | Continue reading


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China’s bike sharing bubble has burst – drone photography captures casualties

Photographer Wu Guoyong travelled across the country to capture what happened when bike-sharing reached saturation point, inviting questions about the efficiency of the China’s industrial machine | Continue reading


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Rabies vaccine scandal reveals China’s tattered moral fabric

Lijia Zhang says the Communist Party’s violent discarding of traditional values, suppression of religion and later embrace of cutthroat capitalism has severely damaged social trust. The party has attempted moral campaigns since then but, as the Changsheng scandal shows, they have … | Continue reading


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Rabies vaccine maker to stop output in China’s latest drug safety scandal

State Drug Administration finds serious violations of manufacturing protocol, prompting company to order recall | Continue reading


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China-US trade war: will Donald Trump’s favourite MAGA hats be next?

Chinese producers of the ubiquitous ‘Make America Great Again’ baseball caps fear the worst as product appears on proposed tariff list | Continue reading


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A peek into China’s top ‘bodyguard factories’

Chinese firms are turning to more-experienced Western partners to expand Beijing’s security capacity amid growing demand as the new Silk Road projects abroad appear fraught with danger | Continue reading


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Who pays when Indonesian Ride-sharing fraud goes full throttle?

Drivers are using various techniques, including fake GPS apps found on the dark web, to inflate their numbers and get undeserved bonuses | Continue reading


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Fraud in Indonesian Ride-Sharing Services

Drivers are using various techniques, including fake GPS apps found on the dark web, to inflate their numbers and get undeserved bonuses | Continue reading


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China surpasses North America in attracting venture capital funding

China start-ups accounted for 47 per cent of the world’s venture capital funding in the second quarter, the first time the country has surpassed North America in fundraising | Continue reading


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Here are the 5 best laptops for travellers – and Apple is not on the list

The Google Pixelbook, the Microsoft Surface Laptop, Dell XPS 13, Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 and Huawei Matebook X Pro are convenient, slim and powerful | Continue reading


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In world first, scientists develop flu drug using genes from the virus itself

Chinese team file patent in United States after discovering method to ‘cheat’ the virus effective in almost 100 per cent of bird flu cases in mice | Continue reading


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Airlines switching dropdowns to “Taiwan, China” – US carriers hold out

After call from Beijing to refrain from listing Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as countries, many foreign airlines change their websites’ wording | Continue reading


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‘Exam cheating machine brand’ linked to 100,000 devices across China

Arrests in May over devices using earpieces and screens has led to allegations involving 12 groups as investigation spreads nationwide, police say | Continue reading


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Google Glass can improve autistic children’s social skills

Children with autism have difficulty reading social cues and discerning other people’s emotions. Studies have shown that using Google Glass improves their ability to read facial expressions, making it an ideal tool in places such as China that have few therapists available | Continue reading


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Beijing's Obstacle in Taking on US Tech? Itself

Trump’s trade war threats and curbs on Chinese investments have only strengthened Xi Jinping’s hi-tech ambitions. But pitfalls abound on China’s path to becoming a world leader in innovation | Continue reading


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SF hospital treated baby with a nap and milk formula. The bill was US$18,000

The case of baby Park Jeong-whan, who bumped his head, highlights the growing tendency of US hospitals to charge ‘trauma response fees’ that go into effect regardless of the eventual treatment and run as high as US$51,000 | Continue reading


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US-China trade war prompt Taiwan firms to consider moving away from China

Island’s business stand to lose from conflict with many companies dependent on their mainland links and factories | Continue reading


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Tencent's WeChat is now host to 1M mini-programs

Mini programs are helping to boost customer retention on WeChat, which has 1 billion users globally. | Continue reading


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Has the age of bird-like drones arrived?

Chinese scientists have developed a bird-like drone named “Dove”, which can be used for military purposes.   | Continue reading


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China brings Star Wars to life with ‘laser AK-47’ that can set fire to targets

Handheld weapons that could set fire to targets from long distances are no longer confined to science fiction but a fact of life, according to researchers | Continue reading


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‘Laser AK-47’ that can set fire to targets a kilometer away

Handheld weapons that could set fire to targets from long distances are no longer confined to science fiction but a fact of life, according to researchers | Continue reading


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China Blocks HBO After John Oliver’s Mockery of Xi Jinping

HBO joins a long list of Western media outlets that have had their websites blocked in China including The New York Times, Facebook and Twitter | Continue reading


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China takes surveillance of citizens to new heights with flock of robotic Doves

Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region | Continue reading


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China’s quantum radar won’t just track stealth bombers, but ballistic missiles

Developer China Electronics Technology Group says system will be able to monitor ‘high-speed flying objects in the upper atmosphere’ | Continue reading


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Drone swarms light up China’s night skies like fireworks of years gone by

Automated swarms, which communicate and coordinate with each other, have been featured in dozens of cities in the country that invented fireworks | Continue reading


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Casio computer founder dies, aged 89

Company is credited with making pocket calculators a household item | Continue reading


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Einstein’s travel diaries reveal racist views of Asians

Excerpts from Einstein’s diaries written during his tour of Asia in the 1920s show his shocking racist and misogynist views. The theoretical physicist is considered a humanitarian, and his private views contradict this, writes the author | Continue reading


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China’s schools are quietly using AI to mark students’ essays

Almost a quarter of the country’s schools are testing ‘thinking’ technology designed to assess everything from an essay’s style and structure to its logic and remove human error | Continue reading


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Life in the City of Darkness

It's 20 years since demolition of Kowloon Walled City began, but former residents hold fond memories of the overcrowded slum they called home | Continue reading


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Elon Musk must be fired as Tesla CEO, shareholders say as company struggles

As Tesla struggles, many shareholders are looking to oust Elon Musk and three of the board’s directors – but they’ll have a fight on their hands | Continue reading


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China names 169 people banned from flights or trains under social credit system

Misdeeds of ‘severely discredited’ Chinese include trying to take a lighter through airport security, provocation on a plane and not paying fines | Continue reading


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China to crack down on fraud in scientific research

New national guidelines spell out punishment for plagiarism, fabrication of data and research conclusions, ghostwriting and peer review manipulation | Continue reading


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Rice grown by Chinese scientists using seawater in Dubai’s deserts

Successful harvest of salt-resistant strain raises researchers’ hopes that one day large swathes of the desert could be turned into paddy fields | Continue reading


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Co-living firm Harbour launches US$1.6B fund to build more rental housing

Gaw-backed Shanghai-based brand set to focus on securing wholesale land plots at low prices | Continue reading


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