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Hedge funds in Asia have been investing in China's top private education groups and US tech giants working on artificial intelligence, regulatory filings from the first quarter reveal
General Wang Haijiang said the People's Liberation Army must learn the lessons of the Ukraine conflict and turn to AI and cyber weapons to take on the West
Some 24 Chinese firms have changed auditors since 2022, according to an analysis of filings by Nikkei, which said many did that to avoid being delisted from US exchanges
Data on industrial output and retail sales in April was well under forecasts, while youth unemployment hit a record 20.4%, suggesting China needs to do more to bolster its recovery
The findings come on the heels of a declaration by G7 finance ministers and central bank governors to support measures to counter illicit activities by state actors
As the impact of charges levelled against consultancy firm Capvision reverberates across the industry, some consultants in China are now scrambling to reduce risk
The investment in factories that will make AirPods for Apple is expected to create many thousands of jobs in southern Telegana state
TikTok's parent company ByteDance allowed a Chinese Communist Party unit to censor content and access all TikTok data, a lawsuit filed in the US on Friday alleges.
Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk’s meeting was the first between the heads of the South Korean chip giant and the US electric-vehicle maker
Washington and Brussels also plan to coordinate export controls on semiconductors when the EU-US Trade and Technology Council meets
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