14 h. ago Chinese, Japanese groups issue joint call for Japan to return Tang dynasty stele

Chinese researchers and Japanese activists have renewed calls for Japan to return a Tang dynasty relic looted over 120 years ago. The effort to recover the Tang Honglu Well Stele comes amid rising regional tensions and Beijing’s ongoing national campaign to reclaim cultural heritage. Shanghai University’s Research Centre for Chinese Relics Overseas and Japanese cultural groups issued a joint declaration on Friday urging Tokyo to “correct historical errors” and return the stone monument, Chinese...

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58 h. ago US charges 20 people with rigging university, Chinese basketball games, NBC reports

US authorities have charged 20 people with rigging college basketball and Chinese Basketball Association games, according to a federal indictment released on Thursday, including some individuals previously charged in an NBA-related gambling investigation. The charges were unsealed by federal prosecutors in Philadelphia following a grand jury and accuse the defendants of conspiring on games from September 2022 until February 2025. During the 2022-2023 CBA season, the individuals sought to...

Politics

3 d. ago Zheng Yu ‘rising star’ in chemical engineering from MIT, quits US for China

A leading young Chinese chemical engineer has left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to return home to Peking University. Zheng Yu recently completed her postdoctoral training in bioelectronics in the US but has now joined the Chinese university’s college of chemistry and molecular engineering as an assistant professor. According to her Peking University webpage, Zheng is working on wearable and implantable electronic devices, such as smart bandages that are used to monitor health. Her...

Science

4 d. ago DeepSeek founder’s latest paper proposes new AI model training to bypass GPU limits

A technical paper co-authored by Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, and a group of Peking University researchers has proposed a new model training technique, which they say can facilitate “aggressive parameter expansion” by bypassing graphics processing unit (GPU) memory constraints. The development underscores the Hangzhou start-up’s continued focus on maximising cost efficiency amid a deficit in computational power relative to US industry leaders,...

Politics

9 d. ago 5 student unions at Chinese University of Hong Kong disband within a year

Five student unions among nine colleges at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have been dissolved in the space of a year, with their leaders attributing the closures to the institution’s requirement that they register as legal societies with police. The student union of Lee Woo Sing College on Wednesday became the latest group at CUHK to announce that it would cease operations. In a social media post, the union said its committee “originally planned to head to the police headquarters to...

Culture

1 week ago Universal Beijing Resort to launch Chinese New Year season on Jan 23

Universal Beijing Resort to launch Chinese New Year season on Jan 23  China Daily

Politics

1 week ago Teachers, students from Chinese universities take part in Hindi Diwas event in Beijing

Teachers, students from Chinese universities take part in Hindi Diwas event in Beijing  newsdrum.in

Society

2 w. ago Chinese public warms to US while strongly backing Beijing’s trade stance: survey

The Chinese public’s favourability towards the United States saw a “notable” rebound in 2025 to reach a three-year high, according to a new study by Tsinghua University’s Centre for International Security and Strategy (CISS). The annual Chinese Outlook on International Security survey, released on Wednesday, also found that the share of respondents holding a positive view of Sino-US relations increased by a “substantial” margin over the last year. Despite this warming sentiment, domestic support...

Events

2 w. ago Hong Kong welcomes 6 babies into world in first hour of New Year’s Day

Three girls and three boys were born in Hong Kong’s public and private hospitals in the first hour of New Year’s Day. The CUHK Medical Centre, a private teaching hospital owned by Chinese University, delivered the city’s first baby of 2026 at 12am. The newborn is a boy and his family’s first child. Two minutes later, United Christian Hospital in Kwun Tong delivered a baby girl, weighing 3.02kg (6.66lbs). Another baby, a boy, was born at Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei at 12.06am, weighing...

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2 w. ago GLOBALink | Giant "snow aircraft carrier" created in Chinese university

GLOBALink | Giant "snow aircraft carrier" created in Chinese university  Xinhua

Transport

3 w. ago Hong Kong could take ‘lead in supporting Greater Bay Area children with autism’

Hong Kong could take a leading role in supporting children with autism in the Greater Bay Area, a former medical faculty dean has said, ahead of plans for a comprehensive care platform to come into operation within a year. Professor Francis Chan Ka-leung of the Chinese University of Hong Kong said the one-stop platform would comprise professionals from the medical, education, insurance and finance sectors, among others. The academic said that a research team from the university’s medical school...

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3 w. ago 7 scientists, mathematicians, physicists and experts who moved to China in 2025

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest stories about scientists in China this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. After decades in the US, star Chinese mathematician couple returns home Mathematician Chen Min has left Purdue University’s maths department to join the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo as a full-time faculty member, the latest Chinese academic to return home from the US. 2. Maths star Joshua Zahl leaves Canada for China after...

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