The fight for the attention span of short video viewers is heating up in China, and it is turning into a slugfest between WeChat, the ubiquitous super app operated by Tencent Holdings, Douyin, the …
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Three dozen more cases of Covid-19 have been detected among Olympic Games -related personnel in China, seven of them within the event’s “closed loop”, organisers said on Saturday. The Beijing Winter …
Richard O’Halloran back in Ireland after being denied exit from China
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China says U.S. plans to pay athletes to ‘sabotage’ Beijing Games
China’s foreign ministry and an official newspaper have accused the United States of planning to interfere with and “sabotage” the Beijing Winter Olympics by paying athletes from some countries to …
Honor is the top Chinese brand in China’s smartphone market
IDC recently released a quarterly mobile phone tracking report. In the fourth quarter of 2021, China’s smartphone market shipped about 83.4 million units, a year-on-year …
Crypto mining won’t survive another round of environmental legislation
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China to curb banks’ use of overseas loans
China’s central bank and foreign exchange regulator issued new rules on Saturday that bar domestic banks from using overseas loans to invest in securities or “speculative deals”, a notice on the …
China’s tech powerhouse sees GDP exceed 3 trln yuan in 2021
A visitor views a 3D printer at the 23rd China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, Dec. 27, 2021. (Xinhua/Liang Xu) SHENZHEN, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) — South China’s …
First Cadillac IQ Charging Station Opens In China
The first Cadillac IQ charging station in China opened this week in the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport parking lot, supporting the comprehensive plan to locally launch the Cadillac Lyriq as …
German-Chinese Smart car brand to enter Malaysia, Thailand with electric vehicles
Smart Automobile, a joint venture of Chinese carmaker Geely and Germany’s Mercedes-Benz headquartered based in Hangzhou, plans to sell China-built, Smart-badged electric vehicles in Southeast Asia, …
3rd Spring Festival with COVID-19 spirited and safe, as China’s epidemic control more mature, precise
Unlike the atmosphere of the 2020 Chinese New Year which was clouded with fear of the unknown at the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak, and the situation when many gave up their plans of…
