6 d. ago Ericsson must cope with a sudden US slump and a China threat

Ericsson must cope with a sudden US slump and a China threat  Light Reading

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1 week ago Canada rejected 160 Hongkonger work permits from 2021 to 2024 over false claims

About 160 Hongkongers were denied work permits under a bespoke Canadian migration pathway between 2021 and 2024 due to fraudulent information, according to the country’s authorities. A spokesman for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) told the Post earlier this month that the Ottawa government was introducing new rules to penalise paid agents who broke the law while representing applicants, including fines of up to C$1.5 million (US$1.1 million) for advising clients to provide...

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1 week ago Japan’s Nobel wins shine light on worrying brain drain to ‘generous’ China

Japan’s scientific community is celebrating two Nobel wins this week, but the accolades have also reignited concern over the country’s ability to retain its top researchers amid growing competition from overseas. The wins have renewed scrutiny of the country’s research system, with observers citing poor funding, job insecurity and rigid institutions as factors driving talent abroad – particularly to China. On Monday, the Nobel Assembly announced that Shimon Sakaguchi and two American colleagues...

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1 week ago How Japan’s twin Nobel Prize wins cast spotlight on its growing brain drain

Japan’s scientific community is celebrating two Nobel wins this week, but the accolades have also reignited concern over the country’s ability to retain its top researchers amid growing competition from overseas. The wins have renewed scrutiny of the country’s research system, with observers citing poor funding, job insecurity and rigid institutions as factors driving talent abroad – particularly to China. On Monday, the Nobel Assembly announced that Shimon Sakaguchi and two American colleagues...

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2 w. ago China Influence Index: shedding light on Beijing’s invisible web – in Italy too

China Influence Index: shedding light on Beijing’s invisible web – in Italy too  Decode39

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2 w. ago China's light industry maintains solid expansion from 2021 to 2024

China's light industry maintains solid expansion from 2021 to 2024  chinadailyasia.com

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2 w. ago Embark on a Cultural Voyage in China: Fuzhou’s Minjiang River Night Cruises Light Up the National Day and Mid

Embark on a Cultural Voyage in China: Fuzhou’s Minjiang River Night Cruises Light Up the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival  Travel And Tour World

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2 w. ago China's drone light show ends in chaos: Crowd runs for life after UAVs catch fire, sparks fall on ground | Watch

China's drone light show ends in chaos: Crowd runs for life after UAVs catch fire, sparks fall on ground | Watch  Mint

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2 w. ago China's New 'Drone Light Show In A Box' Massive Swarm Launcher Speaks To Evolving Threats

China's New 'Drone Light Show In A Box' Massive Swarm Launcher Speaks To Evolving Threats  The War Zone

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2 w. ago China remembers ‘guiding light’ Jane Goodall’s wildlife conservation work

China remembers ‘guiding light’ Jane Goodall’s wildlife conservation work  The Guardian

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3 w. ago US records shed light on Western victims of Japan’s WWII human experiments

Sapphire Dingler was shaken as the dark past emerged before her. Dingler, a US master’s student in public history at Southern New Hampshire University, was sifting through newly digitised American archives when she stumbled upon testimony about a Japanese doctor’s grisly wartime experiments on Western prisoners in Tokyo. The doctor was Hisakichi Tokuda, a young and ambitious physician inspired by Unit 731, an imperial Japanese Army base in northern China infamous for biological warfare and...

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3 w. ago Beijing taps Conflux Network to explore offshore yuan stablecoins

Conflux Network, which claims to be the only regulatory-compliant public blockchain operator in mainland China, has been allowed to experiment with offshore yuan stablecoins as Beijing seeks to secure a position in the new global financial order, according to its founder. Conflux had received a tacit green light from Chinese authorities to explore the development of offshore yuan stablecoins, and was aiming to have up to 300 million yuan (US$42.1 million) worth of tokens issued on its blockchain...

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3 w. ago ‘Last line of defence’: military journal sheds light on China’s new LY

‘Last line of defence’: military journal sheds light on China’s new LY-1 shipborne laser weapon  South China Morning Post

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3 w. ago China’s JingDong Industrials eyes US$500 million in Hong Kong IPO

JingDong Industrials, a unit of Chinese online retailer JD.com, is seeking to raise US$500 million with a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) as soon as the end of October, two sources with direct knowledge said, after the firm cleared a key regulatory hurdle. The company, also known as JDi, refiled for a Hong Kong listing on Sunday after receiving the green light from China’s securities regulator last week, more than two years after it first notified the China Securities Regulatory...

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3 w. ago Hands of Hope: How Lao principal's dream finds light in China

Hands of Hope: How Lao principal's dream finds light in China  PR Newswire

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