At least 16 people have been killed and 32 injured in a magnitude-7 earthquake in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, according to the state news agency Xinhua, citing local disaster management authorities. At
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, will be exempt from the newly announced 100% U.S. tariff on semiconductor imports, Taiwan’s government confirmed Thursday. The news sent TSMC shares
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China’s ambitious race to rival SpaceX’s Starlink with its own constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is running into a critical hurdle: a shortage of rocket launch capacity. As a result, the
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Chinese exporters are beginning to reassess years of offshore investment in Southeast Asia as the latest wave of US tariffs and restrictions on “transshipment” force a major rethink of regional supply chain
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China’s top leadership has pledged to strengthen macroeconomic policy support in the second half of the year as the country grapples with a complex mix of domestic challenges and global uncertainties. Following
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The United States has canceled a planned meeting with Taiwan’s defence minister, Wellington Koo, deepening anxieties in Taipei over Washington’s commitment to supporting the island amid rising tensions with China. The meeting,
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In a remarkable leap, materials chemist Nan Liu jumped from a postdoctoral post in the United States to a full professorship in China — armed with a 4 million yuan (US$560,000) research
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The Trump administration has denied Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te permission to stop in New York during a planned diplomatic tour through Central America, following pressure from Beijing — a move that has
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As the world races toward net-zero emissions, nuclear power is back in the spotlight. Over 30 countries — including the United States, China, and France — have pledged to triple global nuclear
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A potential meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping is emerging as a key diplomatic event ahead of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, South
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China has officially broken ground on the world’s most ambitious hydropower project — a massive dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, with a projected power capacity of 60,000 megawatts, triple
More At least nine of 17 Japanese nationals detained by Chinese authorities since 2014 have been convicted of espionage for allegedly passing sensitive information to Japan’s intelligence agency in exchange for compensation, according
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Taiwan is set to hold a landmark recall election on Saturday, with voters deciding whether to remove up to 24 lawmakers from the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, potentially altering the balance of
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Microsoft Corp. is probing whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity firms enabled Chinese hackers to exploit vulnerabilities in its SharePoint software before patches were released, according to people
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China has proposed the establishment of a global cooperation organization for artificial intelligence (AI), signaling its ambitions to play a leading role in the fast-evolving technology landscape amid growing competition with the
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The number of kindergartens in China has fallen by a staggering 25 percent over the past four years, reflecting the nation’s deepening demographic crisis and the severe impact of a collapsing birthrate
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