Baidu Inc. is planning to launch its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Singapore and Malaysia as early as this year, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the company continues to expand its global footprint. Apollo Go is in discussions with potential partners to explore the right business models for the two markets,…
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Hong Kong should collaborate with mainland China on tourism initiatives in the Greater Bay Area and beyond to capitalise on Beijing’s recent easing of tax refund rules for visitors, industry leaders have said. Chung Pok-man, vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Department Stores and Commercial Staff General Union, said on Wednesday that the mainland’s recently relaxed…
A breakthrough in next-generation semiconductor technology has been announced by Chinese researchers, with the creation of the world’s largest N-polar gallium nitride (GaN) wafer, at eight inches. In what is seen as a game changer for the semiconductor industry, the wafer could slash production costs by 40 per cent – a milestone which is expected…
In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are spelled differently in Chinese characters. Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name – in English-language journals in which Mandarin is…
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways, along with its budget arm HK Express, will ramp up flights to mainland China this summer, increasing connectivity to major cities including Beijing and Shanghai. The airlines said on Thursday that they would provide nearly 300 return flights weekly during the peak this summer, a 40 per cent…
Prominent immunologist Song Guo Zheng has rebuilt his career in Shanghai following his release from a US jail after he was targeted by the now-defunct China Initiative. Zheng was one of the highest profile and most severely penalised researchers under the controversial programme launched during US President Donald Trump’s first term to counter alleged Chinese…
A new Chinese attack submarine being built at a shipyard in Wuhan could be used to target medium-range missile defence systems deployed in the Philippines, according to a semi-official military magazine. But the report in Naval & Merchant Ships – a publication owned by China State Shipbuilding Corporation, a supplier to the PLA Navy –…
The former Communist Party chief in the province where the Covid-19 outbreak first emerged has been placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption. Jiang, 67, has since been made deputy head of the national legislature’s agricultural and social affairs committees, but on Friday two leading anti-corruption watchdogs announced he had been placed under investigation for…
China’s home-grown technological innovations – like the DeepSeek large language model that has taken the artificial intelligence (AI) industry by storm – are enabling the world’s second-largest economy to empower industries and critical infrastructure to carry out their core functions with fewer concerns over data security. Just over a month since the January launch of…