China’s Social Credit System

I will confess that beginning Surveillance State with the story of Hamut felt a little odd — I had expected the book to be rigorous, analytical, data-driven, rather than a narrative based largely on one individual. Yet as Hamut’s story progresses, you feel the walls of the Chinese dragnet closing in,…

A social media post believed to mock Chinese president Xi Jinping was behind the last-minute delay to Diablo Immortal in China, a report has suggested. This contrasts with the official reasoning given by Chinese developer and publisher NetEase in June, which said it was holding back the game's launch for…

June 19 In a behind-the-scenes video posted to his YouTube channel, Chou revealed that a new album was on the way. Filmed in Paris, the 11-minute video sees the 43-year-old singer looking for inspiration while roaming around the city and trying out vintage instruments.  In the final segment of the…

HONG KONG: Here's a scenario. You buy a pre-construction apartment and start paying the mortgage before it's complete. The developer halts the project, has defaulted on its debt and it looks like the property may never get built. You hear of buyers elsewhere who have stopped making their loan payments;…

MELBOURNE: China’s largest - and first to be fully designed and built domestically - aircraft carrier was launched in June amid huge fanfare. The new ship is set to be the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s most advanced vessel when it enters service eventually. Named the Fujian, after the province just…

China is asking the United Nations human rights chief to bury a highly-anticipated report on human rights violations in Xinjiang, according to a Chinese letter seen by Reuters and confirmed by diplomats from three countries who received it. United Nations High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has faced severe criticism from civil…

Your browser does not support the audio element. On July 20, the Beijing High-level Automated Driving Demonstration Area opened its first commercialization pilot of unmanned travel service in China. Baidu and Pony.ai are the first licensed enterprises to operate within the area. This means that Baidu and Pony.ai will deploy…

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Louise Maureen Simeon - The Philippine Star July 20, 2022 | 12:00am New Metro Rail Transit Line 7 coaches are seen along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City July 17, 2022. While the MRT-7 is expected to be partially operational by the last quarter of this year, three other railway projects…

Chuan Park could be redeveloped into 900 new homes Kingsford Development has teamed up with a unit of state-owned conglomerate Metallurgy Corporation of China, to sign a deal for Singapore’s largest en bloc sale so far this year after making a S$890 million ($637.2 million) offer. A notice sent out…