Reflecting on 2023, a key theme for the Chinese technology industry has been strategic retreats from various once-popular sectors, with a sharp focus on financial performance. Amid challenging macroeconomic conditions and heightened competition in an already saturated market, tech giants like Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba, and…

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Last May, in a meeting room at the United Nations in Geneva, I sat and listened as a delegate from my hometown of Hong Kong called me a liar. I was there as a representative from the civil society organization Hong Kong Watch, participating in a session on discrimination against women in China—which included the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

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Does the United States have more to fear from a powerful China that continues to strengthen or from a powerful China that begins to decline? While the question takes into account the economic, military, and diplomatic strides China has made over the past quarter-century—its starting point, after all, is that China is powerful—it seems to embed a questionable, two-part premise: that strategic competition between the United States and China…

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On December 11, TikTok announced a US$1.5 billion strategic partnership with GoTo Group, an Indonesian e-commerce giant, in a deal that would mark TikTok’s return to the Indonesian market after a sudden suspension of its operations two month prior. Under the…

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Uyghurs, an ethnic minority in China who are predominantly Muslims, are inhabitants of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Comprising a population of roughly 10.5 million presently (45 per cent of the region’s population), Uyghurs for centuries have lived in what is known presently as Xinjiang in…

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Christmas is just around the corner and every year there’s that one toy parents will do almost anything to get their hands on.

This isn’t a new phenomenon – as for years, there’s been different toys, gadgets, game consoles and more on the market that have flown off the shelves in the run up…

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The Capital Investment Entrant Scheme | To Re-Start In 2024 | HKD30M | A Big Boy’s Play … Stephen Barnes’ Comments On RTHK News Today

 

Capital Investment Entrant Scheme

On December 19, 2023 the Hong Kong government announced a new scheme aimed at…

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Raimati Ghiuria is often called the “Queen of Millets” and rightly so.

Meet the "Queen of Millets", a tribal woman who preserves 30 types of…

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Trader works at the post where Alibaba is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Wu has been chairman of Taobao and Tmall Group since May 2023.

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu to lead Taobao and Tmall e-commerce business comes via…

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Beijing intends to expand energy cooperation with Russia along all stages of production, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told the Russian state RIA news agency in an interview published on Tuesday.

“China expects to expand cooperation along the entire production chain in the energy industry,” RIA cited the envoy as saying, ahead of…

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