The Hong Kong garrison of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) celebrated the 99th anniversary of the military’s founding on Saturday with a reception at the barracks on Stonecutters Island, with a top officer pledging to expand its role in promoting patriotic and defence education across the city. Speaking at the reception at the Ngong Shuen…
THE MIGHTY Yangtze, running 6,300km from the Tibetan plateau to Shanghai, is sometimes known as China’s “mother river”. Yet it was not always treated with much respect. Sewage and industrial waste were poured into its waters. Millions of tonnes of fish were dragged out. Mega-dams clogged up its channels. It was all too much for…
Taiwanese prosecutors on Monday indicted a former deputy manager at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for allegedly stealing trade secrets involving technologies designated as national core technologies, with the intent to use them in China. The defendant, identified by the surname Chen, faces charges under Taiwan’s National Security Act and the Trade Secrets Act. Prosecutors…
Out here in Dixie County, we still do a lot of things the old-fashioned way. But even in a small town like ours, the schools where we send our kids, the courthouse where folks file their paperwork, the utilities that keep our lights on and the Sheriff’s Office that keeps us safe all run on…
The leadership of the Communist Party is a “fundamental safeguard” of Hong Kong’s prosperity, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has said amid celebrations to mark the 29th anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule and the 105th year of the party. The city leader on Wednesday also set priorities for the final year of…
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “flooding the zone” with spies as Beijng seeks political and economic advantage over the United States and a West that it perceives as weakening, experts have told Newsweek. But some of the spies are being caught, as nations push back against Beijing’s vast operations, too. Nearly every week brings…
Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured. China has just approved the world’s first brain-computer chip. And they’ve beaten billionaire tech-bro and MAGA evangelist Elon Musk to market. The coin-sized device, called NEO, is the first surgical implant to pass clinical trials for commercial sale. Version one is optimised to…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned his party’s ruling elites this year that failure to understand emerging technologies could see China cede ground in the race to dominate the future of the global economy. “Leading cadres at all levels must effectively strengthen their knowledge of frontier science and technology, improve their professional capabilities and make efforts…
Hong Kong authorities expect students as young as six to “feel proud to be Chinese” and to have a basic understanding of national affairs, according to a revamped guide on values education stressing patriotism. The 2026 Values Education Curriculum Framework, published by the Education Bureau on Thursday, applies to all government, aided, special and private…
China’s Gotion Inc. has abandoned a $2.4 billion flagship factory to make battery parts in Green Charter Township, near Big Rapids, Michigan. Township residents, after a vigorous campaign, forced an exhausted company and weary state government to walk away from the project last year. Did the Green Charter residents, in their successful effort, also set…