Singapore (CNN) — A humble suburban school in Australia has fended off competition from skyscrapers, museums and airport terminals to be named World Building of the Year 2024. Darlington Public School, in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, beat more than 220 other shortlisted designs to win the coveted annual prize at the World Architecture Festival…
China’s once-booming theatrical box office has begun to crumble. Total movie ticketsales revenue in the country so far this year is down a whopping 22 percent compared to last year. The results represent a dramatic downturn from the strong postCOVID recovery China’s film market achieved in 2023, when revenue surged 83 percent to finish the…
London (CNN) — Russia is seeking an unfathomable sum of money from one of the world’s biggest tech companies. Google reportedly owes the Kremlin more than 2 undecillion rubles — a 2 followed by 36 zeroes — after refusing to pay fines that are now accruing for blocking pro-Russian channels on YouTube. The virtually unpronounceable…
The Treasury Department on Monday finalized a rule blocking U.S. investors from funding the development of certain technologies “core to the next generation of military, cybersecurity, surveillance, and intelligence applications” in China in a bid to keep an advantage over the Chinese military. What You Need To Know The Treasury Department on Monday finalized a…
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, a documentary feature that China submitted as its entry for the best international feature Oscar competition, has been deemed ineligible for that award, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirms to THR that the film failed to meet their minimum language…
Hong Kong (CNN) — Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse of rocks in the northeastern waters of the city, by Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department in March, the government said…
To most Western observers, it would appear that China has driven its technology industry off a cliff. The number of startups fell by 50,000 between the peak in 2018 and 2023, with this year on track to be even lower. The market capitalizations of the biggest tech companies, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent…
China has selected The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, a World War II documentary by director Fang Li, as its representative at the 97th Academy Awards in the best international feature film category. The pick marks the first time since China began sending titles to the Oscars in 1979 that it has put forward a documentary, but the…
Golden Sixty, one of Hong Kong’s greatest stars and the highest-earning racehorse of all time, has been retired at age 9. Trained by Francis Lui and owned by Stanley Chan, Golden Sixty won 26 races in the racing jurisdiction, with 10 of those coming at the group 1 level, both records in Hong Kong. He…
Five Chinese productions are being presented in market screenings on the sidelines of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival in an effort, organizers of the program say, to give North American audiences a “three-dimensional” view into contemporary China. Put together by the China Film Co-Production Corporation (CFCC), the selection includes comedian Da Peng’s box office…