What Trump’s 2024 election win means for Asian companies Donald Trump has been elected US president, capping a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out of the... Published 07 Nov, 2024 11:45am
Opinion ‘Two secrets to China’s rise’ This is apropos a letter to the Editor by this writer carried by the newspaper yesterday. After twelve years, upon... Published 21 Sep, 2024 06:43am
World Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France, French media say PARIS: Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at... Published 25 Aug, 2024 11:04am
World Elon Musk confirms Twitter has become X.com PARIS: The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com, owner Elon Musk said on... Published 17 May, 2024 01:40pm
Opinion You are what you WhatsApp? Letters are formal. Texts and chats are informal. Letters and emails are with a subject. Texts are boundaryless.... Updated 27 Mar, 2024 05:09am
World US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban WASHINGTON: The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s... Updated 13 Mar, 2024 07:57pm
World Heavy fog suspends shipping at Chinese ports; Shanghai issues heightened advisory BEIJING: Heavy fog has suspended the operation of ships travelling through the Qiongzhou Strait off the coast of... Published 31 Jan, 2024 11:18am
Technology Tencent launches party game ‘DreamStar’, analysts say poses a threat to NetEase HONG KONG: Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings on Friday launched “DreamStar”, a new party game that has been widely... Published 15 Dec, 2023 09:46am
World Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky on government phones OTTAWA: Canada on Monday banned popular Chinese messaging app WeChat and Russian platform Kaspersky from government... Published 31 Oct, 2023 01:46pm
Business & Finance Country Garden delivers 381,000 homes as of Sept 15 BEIJING: Chinese developer Country Garden said on Wednesday it has delivered 381,000 homes in 231 Chinese cities as... Published 20 Sep, 2023 11:17am
Technology Tencent claims new AI chat bot skills comparable to ChatGPT SHANGHAI: Chinese tech giant Tencent on Thursday claimed its new chatbot had some capabilities on par with top US... Published 07 Sep, 2023 12:52pm
Business & Finance Alibaba announces unexpected 14pc increase in quarterly revenue BEIJING: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced an unexpected 14 percent on-year increase in quarterly sales on... Published 15 Aug, 2023 06:30am
World Beijing rains heaviest since records began 140 years ago BEIJING: Deadly rains that pummelled China’s capital in recent days were the heaviest since records began 140 years... Updated 02 Aug, 2023 11:33am
Technology Apple Store goes live on WeChat mini programme BEIJING: Apple Store’s official online store went live on Tencent’s WeChat mini programme on Tuesday, according to... Published 11 Jul, 2023 09:18am
World Beijing hospital fire death toll rises to 29, director detained BEIJING: The death toll in a fire that ripped through a hospital in China’s capital Beijing has risen to 29, a city... Published 19 Apr, 2023 10:41am
Technology From bricks to flips: 50 years of mobile phones PARIS: From brick-sized handsets popular with stockbrokers to intensely powerful computers that sit in all our... Published 30 Mar, 2023 01:02pm
Business & Finance PCJCCI chief underscores need for promoting online business LAHORE: Pakistan can bring a revolution in online business with the help of Chinese companies already working in the... Published 29 Mar, 2023 06:27am
Markets India to ban Chinese-linked betting and loan lending apps India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has begun a process to ban and block 138 betting... Updated 05 Feb, 2023 03:51pm
Business & Finance Chinese EV maker Xpeng joins Tesla, Seres to cut some models’ prices SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Chinese automaker Xpeng on Tuesday announced price cuts for some models in the country in a notice... Published 17 Jan, 2023 12:29pm
Technology Tencent bets big on WeChat Channels in push to build its own TikTok HONG KONG: On a hot summer’s day last year, the 90’s boy band Backstreet Boys clambered on to a stage in... Published 13 Jan, 2023 11:40am
World China’s Sichuan returning to normal as earthquake death toll hits 93 BEIJING: Officials in China’s Sichuan province, which was hit by an earthquake that killed 93 last week, lowered the... Published 13 Sep, 2022 11:15am
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Technology Chinese booster rocket makes uncontrolled return to Earth WASHINGTON: A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, leading US officials to chide... Published 31 Jul, 2022 09:55am
World Biden eyes new ways to bar China from scooping up US data WASHINGTON: The Biden administration has drafted an executive order that would give the Department of Justice vast... Published 13 May, 2022 05:59am
Markets Tencent’s WeChat to reveal user locations on public account posts BEIJING: China’s most popular messaging service WeChat will begin revealing users’ locations when they post on a... Published 29 Apr, 2022 08:52pm
Technology China's Tencent to reduce transaction fees on WeChat payments for SMEs SHANGHAI: Chinese social media giant Tencent Holdings Ltd will reduce transaction fees for small and medium-sized... Published 03 Mar, 2022 12:20pm
World China warns US over ‘interfering’ in Winter Olympics BEIJING: China warned the United States to “stop interfering” in the Winter Olympics on Thursday, a week before... Published 28 Jan, 2022 04:45am
Opinion Internet guardians want to break web’s language barriers When website addresses using writing systems like Chinese and Arabic were introduced back in 2009, it was hailed as ... Published 11 Dec, 2021 04:12am
Business & Finance WeChat bargain hunters seek profits in China property bond rout SHANGHAI: In late October, as a growing liquidity crisis across China’s property sector walloped developers’... Published 15 Nov, 2021 07:08am
Technology Tencent flags progress on three chips in development, investment effort SHANGHAI: Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings touted progress in semiconductor chip development and investment... Published 03 Nov, 2021 12:42pm