TOKYO: Chinese tech companies are racing ahead with artificial intelligence tools that can turn text into short videos. The public release of a handful of AI video generators from big companies and start-ups aims to show how the country is narrowing
TOKYO: Earnings reports from Chinese tech companies last week should be a wake-up call for Beijing. Alibaba Group and JD.com pulled out all the stops to attract customers to spend during their 618 shopping festival, a Black Friday-like extravaganza
HONG KONG: In 1975xgbet online casino, in what turned out to be the valedictory speech of his long and tumultuous career, Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People’s Republic of China, declared proudly that his government was free of all debt. “In
SINGAPORE: A woman from China was jailed for six months and fined S$4,000 on Friday (Sep 27) for overstaying in Singapore for more than 18 years. Chen Yueying, 54, pleaded guilty to one count under the Immigration Act for remaining in Singapore for
PENANG: Two tourists from China died after an uprooted tree crushed the car they were in at a local attraction in Penang on Wednesday (Sep 18).ttslot Local media reported that the two - who are father and daughter – had just finished visiting the Pi
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2024-10-08SINGAPORE: “I’ve climbed Mount Tai many times, so I’m not afraid of any weather condition!” proclaims one of many similar posts on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu. Initially coming across as bragging, these users are actually marketing the
BEIJING: Japan's ambassador to Beijing has asked for more security for Japanese nationals in China after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was killed this week in a knife attack that was the second to target school students. In a statement issued on Friday
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2024-10-08BEIJING: China said on Friday (Sep 20) that it would "gradually resume" importing seafood from Japan after imposing a blanket ban in August last year over the release of water from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant. In August 2023, Japan began di
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2024-10-08A string of recent stabbing attacks on foreigners in China could fuel worries about personal safety in the country’s expatriate community, according to diplomatic observers, who say that more transparency from authorities will be crucial to ease fea