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China is building electric cargo ships to decarbonise the nation’s waterways. This December 2024 image shows the nation’s first “clean drift transfer” ship, which is a zero-emission vessel designed to collect floating debris and waste from rivers, lakes or coastal areas. Photo: Getty Images
Electric & new energy vehicles

China bets on electric ships in push to decarbonise waterways, expand EV success

Twin strengths, battery technology and shipbuilding, are being fused to electrify maritime transport, moving beyond short-haul passenger vessels to commercial cargo.

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Artificial intelligence

Chinese robot vacuum maker Dreame sees AI-driven appliances run household chores

Artificial intelligence

Opinion | Asia needs AI talent to fuel its future growth

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India

‘Pax Silica’: America’s new AI inner circle and Asia’s chosen few

Japan, South Korea and Singapore made the cut, leaving key partners like India and Vietnam – and even New Zealand – on the sidelines.

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Representatives of the “Pax Silica” signatories hold signed documents at a summit held in Washington on December 12. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
China technology

Video | Humanoid robots take centre stage at Shanghai summit

Competitions mainly focused on robotic applications in industrial assembly, home services, flower arranging, healthcare and elderly care, as well as restaurant services.

China technology

Opinion | Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI

The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.

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Technology

Opinion | Does AI’s rise have to mean job losses? East Asia tells a different story

Studies from Vietnam to South Korea show AI adoption has not cannibalised jobs. Instead of simple mechanisation, economies are synergising.

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The automated Seres Super Factory fpr electric vehicles in Liangjiang New Area, southwest China’s Chongqing, on September 19. Photo: Xinhua
China manufacturing

From steel to space: China giant sells first 2 satellites in bold pivot

Once forging steel for skyscrapers, Jigang Group is now in a race to the skies with Geely and 90,000 other Chinese companies.

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Technology

Opinion | How AI, quantum and space technologies will define the Asian century

Together, they form an engine that will determine which nations shape the century ahead and which struggle to keep pace.

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Asia housing and property

The View | An AI-fuelled data centre bubble in the making? Not in Asia

Asia provides strong reassurance that the AI boom is not the only factor driving development and investment in data centres.

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A visitor observes a miniature model of data cabins for an undersea data centre in Lingshui, in south Hainan province, on September 25. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek and Qwen AI models crush Western rivals in cryptocurrency trading challenge

In a real-world test of trading intelligence, China’s DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen AI models have outpaced their Western rivals including GPT.

DeepSeek’s Chat V3.1 model grew its initial capital of US$10,000 to US$22,900 in the showdown. Photo: Reuters
China technology

Video | China’s underwater data centres aim to lower carbon footprint

The data centres will be stored in pods under the sea, where ocean currents help keep them cool.

Hong Kong stock market

TransThera’s 4,500% surge sparks bubble fears in China healthcare stocks

Eye-watering valuation for company ‘with only 121 employees and no revenue’ fuels concerns of speculation on Hong Kong’s red-hot market.

China technology

Opinion | Techno-nationalism is now the critical battlefront in geopolitics

The assumption that technology is a neutral force driving shared progress is giving way to a reality of competition and contest.

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The United States has imposed restrictions on advanced chip exports and equipment, while China has tightened its control of critical minerals, including gallium and germanium that are crucial in chipmaking. Photo: Shutterstock
Huawei

Huawei unveils drive storage products to help AI computing

Huawei’s latest move is part of its efforts to develop a comprehensive ecosystem in AI technology.

A Huawei logo. Photo: Shutterstock
Banking & finance

Ant International, Swift and StanChart partner on remittance service

Participants can send cash to 36 digital wallets around the world operated by Alipay+.

Robotics

Video | Robots impress spectators at world conference in Beijing

Event showcases game-changing technology to assist people from all walks of life.

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China technology

Opinion | Manus leaving China reflects tough balancing act amid geopolitical tensions

For successful start-ups like Manus, a relocation could be a pragmatic option that brings benefits in terms of resources and access.

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Once a rising star in China’s AI scene, Manus has since relocated its headquarters to Singapore, quietly stepping out of the mainland spotlight just as Big Tech players from Tencent to ByteDance rush to fill the void. Photo: Shutterstock
Asia housing and property

The View | Why Osaka, Bengaluru and Johor are overlooked drivers of Asia property

To spot the big themes and trends in Asian property, look beyond the most widely traded cities and see the market’s true breadth and depth.

Science

In a first, Chinese team captures rare quantum friction effect in folded graphene

Team at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics made unexpected finding while folding ultra-thin sheets of graphene.

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China technology

China’s SpinQ sees quantum computing crossing ‘usefulness’ threshold in 5 years

Shenzhen-based SpinQ expects to deliver a 100-qubit quantum computer by the end of the year, founder and CEO says.

SpinQ founder and CEO Xiang Jingen, at left. Photo: SpinQ
Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese EVs: Xiaomi accelerates launch of Tesla Model Y rival YU7

Sales will start at the end of this month instead of in July, founder and CEO Lei Jun says.

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Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun introduces the smartphone maker’s electric SUV, the YU7, at a launch event in Beijing on May 22, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Huawei

Huawei founder Ren says state-of-the-art chip performance can be achieved

Ren Zhengfei says his firm is just one of many Chinese chipmakers, adding that the US has ‘exaggerated Huawei’s achievements’.

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Banking & finance

Opinion | As geopolitics hits venture capital, Asia must start funding its own tech

For all its technical firepower, Asia remains undercapitalised. With funds no longer flowing freely, it needs a financial system that serves its purpose.

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Taiwan economy

Trade war elephant in the showroom at Computex Taipei, Asia’s biggest tech expo

As Trump threatens to reinstate high tariffs on Taiwan, tech-sector exporters reliant on the US market fear the worst.

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People attend Computex 2025 at Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei on May 20, 2025. Photo: AFP
India

Vodafone Idea seeks court held after India rejects waving dues

Vodafone Idea has challenged the government’s rejection of a request to waive more than US$5 billion it owes the government.

A man walks across an LED display board showing the logo of Vodafone-Idea in New Delhi in 2022. Photo: Reuters
China Future Tech briefing

Pony.ai, Uber to offer robotaxis in Middle East

Partnership will help both parties explore new markets in the Middle East and other international markets, according to statement.

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Business of climate change

Emissions from AI chip manufacturing rose fourfold in 2024, Greenpeace says

There are many opportunities to invest directly in wind and solar energy, yet global chipmakers have failed to do so on a meaningful scale, Greenpeace says.

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