The Advanced Technology Application and Promotion Centre represents a major national initiative located in Hefei, capital of eastern Anhui province The centre will serve as a kind of brain thrust to …
Monthly Archives For November 2022
World shares fall as China protests, lockdowns cloud outlook
Shares slumped in Europe and Asia on Monday, with Hong Kong briefly dipping more than 4% following weekend protests in various cities over China’s strict zero-COVID lockdowns.
China’s Xi faces public anger over draconian ‘zero COVID’
Barely a month after granting himself a third five-year term as China’s leader, Xi Jinping is facing a wave of public anger over his draconian “zero COVID” policy
Live news updates: China’s official media stress zero-Covid policy amid protests
Valuations for sports teams have been soaring in the past year, thanks largely to a boom in the price of live broadcast rights. Billions of dollars have poured into European football, Indian cricket and various…
Blank paper becomes the symbol of China’s protests
So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered…
Real estate firm Evergrande sells land for USD 1 billion as debt crisis looms across China
The price of new homes contracted 1.6 per cent year-on-year, their sharpest decline since August 2015, analysis of figures from Beijing’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed.
Debt-hit Developer China Evergrande Sells Land For $1 Bn
Embattled property giant China Evergrande has sold land earlier earmarked for its headquarters in the southern tech hub Shenzhen for $1 billion, according to an official document, as it fights for …
China’s digital economy: Divided but growing
Increased regulation of China’s consumer tech industry has seriously dented company revenues, with widespread implications. But the digitisation …
China’s Covid Testing Firms Come Under Fire as Fury Explodes
China’s Covid PCR testing companies are coming under increasing public criticism for profiting off the country’s controversial Covid-Zero strategy, as anger mounts over the onerous rules amid …
Swift win: Chinese military aircraft show links to Western technology
China’s development of military air platforms continues to show strong links to designs and concepts originating from the West.
COVID revolt fallout: Huge iPhone plant in China is ‘albatross’ for Apple
A violent workers’ revolt at the world’s largest iPhone factory last week in central China is further scrambling Apple’s strained supply and highlighting how the country’s stringent zero-Covid policy …
Apple to Lose 6 Million iPhone Pros From Tumult at China Plant
Turmoil at Apple Inc.’s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou is likely to result in a production shortfall of close to 6 million iPhone Pro units this year, according to a person familiar with assembly …
Apple will produce 6 million fewer iPhone pros amid unrest in key China manufacturing hub: report
Unrest at one of China’s biggest manufacturing centers may cause a production shortfall this year of possibly 6 million Apple iPhone Pros, according to a source cited by Bloomberg. The Foxconn …
