Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce in southern China

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce in southern China

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupted production of Apple’s iPhones in Shenzhen and crucial pre-holiday shipments by cross-border e-commerce merchants, as the year’s strongest storm barrelled towards southern China with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. The world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, on Tuesday suspended assembly work at its Shenzhen unit – the innovative Product…

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‘Up or out’: death of bright young scientists highlights China’s ruthless academic system

‘Up or out’: death of bright young scientists highlights China’s ruthless academic system

The death of three prominent young scientists from top Chinese universities in recent months has again put the country’s ambitious science goals and ruthless academic system under scrutiny. While none of their institutions has issued any official statement about the deaths, the cases have once again prompted criticism of China’s flawed talent system, which is…

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