China’s quest for a competitive domestic operating system has been going on for decades, but Microsoft Windows remains dominant. | Continue reading
Manila condemns military exercises near Taiping Island as ‘unlawful’. | Continue reading
Research team says latest Sunway machine is on a par with the US Frontier, named as the world’s most powerful just weeks earlier. | Continue reading
The proposal echoes a controversy that erupted when the WHO renamed Sars-CoV-2 after people around the world referred to it as the China or Wuhan virus. | Continue reading
Narrowband signal picked up by FAST from direction of the star Kepler-438 meets initial criteria for extraterrestrial intelligence, preprint says. | Continue reading
Bank customers whose deposits are frozen unable to join protests in Zhengzhou because their health QR codes turned red, declaring them a risk to public health. | Continue reading
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s vision of an expanded and dedicated cadre of China experts is meant to implement policy across government departments. | Continue reading
He sent a message to staff saying they must be in the office for a minimum ‘and I mean minimum’ of 40 hours a week; at Tesla’s Shanghai factory, thousands have been working 12-hour shifts, 6 days a week, many sleeping on the floor. | Continue reading
Rudd’s comments come as Western nations criticise the Solomon Islands-China security deal that they believe will lead to Beijing bolstering its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. | Continue reading
Researchers call for development of anti-satellite capabilities including ability to track, monitor and disable each craft. | Continue reading
Hikvision, which provides surveillance cameras used in China’s Xinjiang region, said it hopes to be ‘treated fairly’ if the US decides to add it to a new sanctions list that could impair its ability to do business globally. | Continue reading
As more cities announce mass-testing initiatives, analysts warn that the cost of such efforts will further pressure local authorities and municipal coffers that are already being strained by attempts to shore up economic growth. | Continue reading
After China contained the Wuhan outbreak by locking down the city and the rest of the province in 2020, it began to apply the formula to other areas. | Continue reading
Meanwhile, Arizona State University’s journalism school says it will take over the Foreign Correspondents’ Club’s annual human rights media awards. | Continue reading
Weibo accounts of Western tech gurus are likely run by entities or teams based in China on their behalf, acting as one-way PR channels. | Continue reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with nine prominent economists this week to help with the development of the 14th five-year plan for 2021-25 which is due next year. | Continue reading
Illegal since the 1960s, psychedelics including psilocybin and LSD are now under the microscope again as researchers see if they can help treat a range of medical conditions. | Continue reading
The researchers say their new material is light and flexible, but covered with circuits to change the pattern of the radar signal. | Continue reading
Former chief architect officer Preston Dunlap said the Pentagon should behave more like SpaceX and that the consolidation of the defence-industrial base is bad for competition. | Continue reading
In a thinly-veiled rebuke of the US, President Xi Jinping said ‘hegemonism and power politics will only breach global peace’, while emphasising the resilience of the Chinese economy. | Continue reading
US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, an advisory panel, is told that the business executives ‘kowtow’ to Beijing. | Continue reading
The top court found that Beijing was able to give Wellington sufficient assurance that Kim could get a fair trial and wouldn’t be tortured. | Continue reading
Some worry Musk, known for being critical of Twitter to his 80 million followers on the platform, will not be required to act in the company’s best interests. | Continue reading
The robbers, posing as government officials, used gas cutters and earthmoving machinery to dismantle the 60-feet-long iron bridge; selling metal scrap can be a lucrative business in India. | Continue reading
Servants, sedan chairs, shooting; early 20th century foreign enclaves in China offered an experience far removed from ‘China proper’, one looked on with disdain by some who passed through. | Continue reading
The British government sees fit to criticise the national security law even as it introduces a harsh new police bill at home. As for the Sino-British Joint Declaration, London itself has gone back on its agreement with Beijing that it would not grant BN(O) status to future genera … | Continue reading
Is Picasso being cancelled? The artist’s track record with women sits badly with some social media users today, forcing those who manage his legacy to defend his reputation constantly. | Continue reading
Former No 2 official declares his bid for chief executive race. | Continue reading
Fresh elections will be held in 90 days, after Imran Khan advised the president to dissolve parliament. | Continue reading
Three branded traditional Chinese medicines are being used in China’s fight against Covid-19. Experts discuss their pros and cons. | Continue reading
The use of the term ‘graduation’ in dismissal letters at JD.com and Bilibili has sparked controversy, especially given the ongoing job cuts that have come amid intense regulatory scrutiny of China’s tech sector. | Continue reading
An amateur aircraft builder with no engineering expertise was caught by police in China trying to ‘test-fly’ a home-made helicopter he built with a boat engine and spare parts bought online. | Continue reading
China has long relied on Taiwan as a source of experienced chip engineers, but Washington’s initiative to boost semiconductor production on American soil is set to increase global competition for such talent. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in China say they have discovered the Jixia Academy, a Warring States period institution that housed many of the country’s greatest thinkers from 2,300 years ago. | Continue reading
Embrace your feelings of anxiety instead of trying to push them away to unlock superpowers, say experts, from being more productive to being more emotionally resilient. | Continue reading
The industry went through profound changes after two flights came down within in a month in 2002. | Continue reading
The ex-foreign minister defended the government’s sanctions against Moscow, saying Tokyo needs allies if it is attacked by Beijing. | Continue reading
Beijing is lobbying Indonesia to take the conflict off the agenda at the group’s summit in Bali, saying it should stick to economic matters. | Continue reading
The defiant head of Arm China said the company may go public in either Shanghai of Hong Kong after 2025. | Continue reading
China’s ambitious plan to grow global trade has resulted in collaborations with 147 countries and 32 international organisations, but an uncertain outlook has cast a pall on future development. | Continue reading
A tiny population of Lithuanians find they are feted in Taiwan after their country allowed the island to open a de facto embassy in Vilnius last year. | Continue reading
Bachelet had been seeking access to the region since September 2018 over reports that up to a million Uygurs were being held in detention camps | Continue reading
He Jiankui was jailed for his experiment on human embryos after the three girls were born. | Continue reading
‘China, if it were to seek to evade the sanctions, or somehow dividing the sanctions, they would be vulnerable,’ says Derek Chollet. | Continue reading
With civilian casualties increasing and the international community rallying behind Ukraine, Beijing’s verbal acrobatics can’t be sustained. It needs a new playbook, writes Wang Xiangwei. | Continue reading
‘What happens to those who rely on bank transfers from their parents?’: Eugenia, Russian model. | Continue reading
Europeans have been galvanised by the Ukraine crisis, and Beijing is not immune from the consequences. | Continue reading
Cybersecurity firm Symantec says the malware, which it calls Daxin, has been used to target high level, non-Western government agencies in Asia and Africa. | Continue reading