China’s Social Credit System

When the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications companies—ultimately breaching no fewer than nine of the phone carriers and accessing Americans' texts and calls in real time—that hacking campaign was treated as a four-alarm fire by the US…

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of two Jurassic bird species at a locality in Zhenghe county, Fujian province, southeast China. These 149-million-year-old fossils demonstrate the early appearance of highly derived bird features, and together with another bird fossil from the same locality, they suggest an earlier origin of birds…

The representational image shows an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023. — Reuters MILAN: A leading Italian businessman has been swindled out of nearly €1 million (£870,000) in an elaborate scam that used artificial intelligence to clone the voice…

Bloomberg Feb 11, 2025, 13:07 IST IST For Chinese authorities, boosting interest in marriage and baby-making is a pressing concern. China has the second-biggest population in the world at 1.4 billion — one that is aging quickly Marriages in China plunged by a fifth to the lowest level on record…

Lin Shidong celebrates after winning the men's singles final against compatriot Liang Jingkun at the 2025 World Table Tennis (WTT) Singapore Smash, Feb. 9, 2025. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua) BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese prodigy Lin Shidong has moved up to men's singles world No. 1 as the…

"Ne Zha 2" smashes box office records, becomes first non-Hollywood film to hit 1 bln USDRead More

For the first time in nearly four years, China has a new box office champion. On Feb. 6, just nine days after it hit theaters, “Ne Zha 2” passed 2021’s “The Battle at Lake Changjin” to become the highest-grossing film in Chinese history — and the highest-grossing film in a…

The woman was on a flight from Guilin to Xiamen in China when she looked under her seat and found a firecracker, which she then handed over to a flight attendant The firecracker stored under the seat on a flight from Guilin to Xiamen ( Image: NX) An investigation has…

Synopsis Tesla has seen a drop in sales in France and Germany as well. In California, the company recorded its fifth consecutive quarterly decline. Shares of Elon Musk’s Tesla fell 1.5 per cent in premarket trading after sales data from China revealed a 11.5 per cent drop in electric vehicle…

In the summer of 2023, Vasileios Tsianos, the vice president of corporate development at Neo Performance Materials, started getting calls from government officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Within the world of industrial material manufacturing, Neo is best known for making rare earth magnets, used in everything from home…