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People check new products of Xiaomi ahead of the 2023 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 26, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
BEIJING, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) reported a small increase in revenue for the third quarter, though smartphone shipments were flat as China’s economic recovery struggled…
While some other firms have exceeded consensus earnings estimates, troubling signs remain under the hood. Tencent shares have been muted since earnings on Wednesday that beat expectations, as analysts pointed to underwhelming advertising revenue and less-than-exceptional game sales. JD.com and NetEase have seen small gains after seemingly good results.
Alibaba shock…
The most important summit in recent years just took place. Chinese President Xi travelled to San Francisco to meet US President Joe Biden in a visit that Beijing’s media and foreign office played up to the hilt, the US hardly at all.
President Xi exudes bonhomie as business houses gauge a directional…
In a development that highlights the fast-evolving security environment of the Indo-Pacific, Australia has signed a pact with Tuvalu in the Pacific Islands which will provide a “special human mobility pathway”, or climate visas to Tuvaluans. However, Canberra will have to be consulted before Tuvalu approves any security arrangement with an external power.
When Chinese president Xi Jinping cut the ribbon on Sri Lanka’s Port City Colombo construction site in September 2014, it was promoted as a future major hub in China’s global infrastructure project, the belt and road initiative.
With a financial centre, beach-front villas and an international yacht marina, the city is aiming to be…
However, manufacturers have expressed some dismay at the government’s plans. A senior executive at a carmaker company told me on the condition of anonymity that any duty reduction should ideally be on components and for a limited time frame; he cites the Phased Manufacturing Programme (PMP), which the government recently announced for…
GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The 21st Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition, also known as Auto Guangzhou 2023, themed ‘New Tech, New Life’, commenced at Pazhou on November 17. During the ‘Smart Green Mobility’ press conference hosted by GAC Group, the group reflected on this year’s NEXT plan and announced that…
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The climate crisis has brought human ill-treatment of nature forcibly to our attention though, of course, India’s environmental problems are by no means the product of global warming alone. The staggeringly high rates of air pollution in the cities of northern India, the ongoing devastation of the Himalaya by carelessly planned roads…
Three months before Bob Hawke joined with Pacific leaders in the Cook Islands to sign a landmark new anti-nuclear treaty, the local newspaper carried an arresting headline.
“PACIFIC – A REGION OF ‘PEACE’ – AND BOMBS FOR FRANCE,” thundered the Cook Islands News on Saturday 11 May 1985.
A four-decade-old Pacific treaty…
