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By Liz Lee and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI, Oct 20 (Reuters) – China’s military said on Tuesday it had sent forces to watch a US warship that “illegally” entered waters around a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, while further north in the waterway, Taiwan reported a standoff with a Chinese vessel. China views almost all of…
China’s smartphone shipments fell by 15.4% year-on-year (YoY) to approximately 57.9 million units in the third quarter of 2026, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Rising memory and component costs pushed device prices higher, prompting vendors to adjust specifications and contributing to weaker consumer demand. The cost increases affected Android brands and smaller…
Until recently, a Manhattanite might venture no more than a few dozen blocks to find the world’s most sophisticated cancer treatment. Cutting-edge American medicines have helped reduce the U.S. cancer death rate by about a third since 1990, and New York City hospitals deliver some of the best care in the country. But in January…
Chinese chipmaker CXMT is predicted to be ramping up RAM production It could double memory production by 2028, we’re told This extra RAM is likely to service the domestic market, though, and meanwhile, Dell’s CEO is warning that the memory crisis is likely to persist to 2030 A major Chinese chipmaker has plans to expand…
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Army unveils new combat doctrine targeting China Weapons, ammunition and fuel to be pre-positioned along First Island Chain New 4th Multi-Domain Task Force of about 2,100 troops activated Military aims to be ready to respond ‘from day one of any conflict’ US Army Green Berets participate in a Special Operations Forces event in Tampa, Florida,…
China and Laos have established a jointly run training centre at a newly built airfield at Ban Keun, about 50 kilometres north of Laos’s capital, Vientiane. The two countries say the facility will be used to train pilots for Laos’s air force. So what have China and Laos said about it? What do satellite images…
How university life in Changsha became an opportunity to bring language, culture, and free knowledge together. Bangladeshi Wikimedian’s in fornt of library complex, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Hunan, 2019. Photo: SAKIB REZA PIAL, CC BY-SA 4.0 When I moved to Changsha, China to study Electrical Engineering and Automation at Changsha University of Science…
The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said on the afternoon of October 18 that Champi was a powerful storm over the north-western Pacific and the 30th storm to form in the region this year. Early that afternoon, the storm’s centre was located at about 13.1 degrees north latitude and 142 degrees east longitude, roughly 2,700km…
In brief StepFun launched the STEPX Neo on Oct. 13, a 3,999-yuan phone, about $560, running its Step AOS 1.0 operating system with a built-in AI agent called Amoo. Pre-orders opened on JD.com, Tmall and Douyin, and the price includes 12 months of AI access at 100 billion tokens a month. Nearly 100 partners including…
Two China Coast Guard vessels on Friday afternoon entered restricted waters around Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島), prompting the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) to deploy vessels to monitor them and order them to leave. The Chinese vessels, numbered 3301 and 3303, entered the restricted waters at 3:34pm, the CGA’s Dongsha-Nansha Branch said in a…