Hong Kong rushed to prepare for the arrival of Super Typhoon Ragasa on Tuesday, with officials warning of a “serious threat” comparable to some of the most destructive storms in the city’s recent history. Ragasa was generating winds with maximum sustained speeds of 220 kilometres per hour (137 miles per hour) at its centre as it…
A Strategic Platform Spotlighting China’s Next-Generation Innovators, Anchored by AI Hardware Ecosystem and Frontier Technologies BEYOND Expo, Asia’s largest innovation and tech ecosystem event, is proud to announce the launch of XIN Summit powered by BEYOND Expo, a new China-focused edition set to debut in Nanshan, Shenzhen on November 15-16, 2025. This year’s summit centers on the AI…
US-sanctioned Huawei’s disclosure “is educating the market about what’s ahead”, while signalling that the Shenzhen-based company “can match Nvidia’s multi-year road map”, said Kevin Xu, founder of US-based investment firm Interconnected Capital. Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, who serves as the privately held company’s rotating chairman from April to September, unveiled the plans to…
Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis is no longer a distant blueprint but a defining project of our times. In his policy address, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu made clear that its delivery will be a top priority, with new structures, legislation and transport links to ensure momentum. This marks a significant step forward for Hong Kong,…
Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis is no longer a distant blueprint but a defining project of our times. In his policy address, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu made clear that its delivery will be a top priority, with new structures, legislation and transport links to ensure momentum. This marks a significant step forward for Hong Kong,…
It is easy to spot Kent Wong among the lunchtime diners at a busy cooked food centre in Hong Kong’s Kowloon City neighbourhood. He is wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a tropical-print shirt – the signature style of his social media moniker, Uncle K. Wong, who has amassed more than 184,000 Instagram followers since…
Air raid sirens sounded in more than 100 cities across mainland China on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the “Mukden Incident” in 1931, the beginning of Japan’s invasion of China. The incident refers to the evening of September 18 when the Japanese Kwantung Army in Shenyang, Liaoning province, used an explosion on the South…
Huawei Technologies unveiled hardware that it said could deliver world-class computing power without using Nvidia’s advanced chips, in a breakthrough that could potentially free the supply chokehold that constrains China’s aspirations in artificial intelligence. The Shenzhen-based telecoms equipment giant said it had developed the “world’s most powerful” supernode computing cluster using local chipmaking processes, providing…
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Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) surged in Hong Kong on Monday after JPMorgan Chase upgraded the stock, which extended a rebound for Chinese battery makers and inflated the premium of its Hong Kong shares over those that trade in Shenzhen. The US bank also predicted stronger demand for CATL’s energy storage systems. CATL’s Hong Kong shares…