Criticism of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings over its Panama Canal ports sale is mounting as key Beijing offices posted another online media commentary warning entrepreneurs who choose to “dance with Americans” will have no future even if they secure a “big deal”. The article, published by pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao…
Criticism of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings over its Panama Canal ports sale is mounting as the two top Beijing offices in charge of Hong Kong affairs posted another commentary warning entrepreneurs who choose to “dance with Americans” will have no future even if they secure a “big deal”. The article, published…
Despite the changing relationship between Washington and Beijing over the decades, the US defence industry has seen marked contributions from experts of Chinese heritage since at least the dawn of the nuclear age. But rising competition between the two powers, along with a general anti-China sentiment in research and development, has narrowed the path into…
Yu Renrong, the only semiconductor executive to attend a symposium hosted by Xi Jinping with other Chinese entrepreneurs earlier this week, has quickly become the face of the nation’s chipmakers. In a video released by the mainland’s state broadcaster CCTV, the 58-year-old founder of Shanghai-listed Will Semiconductor – wearing a black coat – was seen…
Li Zexiang, the Chinese professor credited with nurturing some of the country’s most valuable tech start-ups, including DJI, is embarking on a new mission to create multiple Silicon Valleys across China and drive the next wave of innovation. “For a large country like China, it can’t rely on just one company. It needs communities, and…
A man in China became the target of ridicule on mainland social media after spending over 4 million yuan (US$550,000) on tipping a live-streaming anchor, all in a desperate attempt to hear her call him “brother”. He resorted to eating plain steamed buns to survive amid his financial ruin. The man, whose surname is Hong,…
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has assured that Hong Kong’s business leaders have the freedom to make their own investment decisions, despite a top Beijing official’s call for their active participation in the city’s long-term development. But the city leader also said on Tuesday the business sector could further contribute to making Hong Kong a…
Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines has launched flights to Zhoushan, a mainland Chinese city known for its Buddhist pilgrimage site of Mount Putuo, adding a new route that will soon be followed by three others, even as it recently cut a flight to Haikou that began in late July. The carrier debuted the route to…
Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines has launched flights to Zhoushan, a mainland Chinese city known for its Buddhist pilgrimage site of Mount Putuo, adding a new route that will soon be followed by three others, even as it recently cut a flight to Haikou that began in late July. The carrier debuted the route to…
In China’s eastern coastal city of Ningbo lies a little-known manufacturer that makes one of the world’s thinnest amorphous-nanocrystalline alloys, more commonly known as magnetic “liquid metals”. The stand-out of the product line are soft, nano-sized magnetic materials that measure no thicker than 14 nanometres. To put that into perspective, a human hair is around…