Nvidias latest language processing chip, unveiled at the companys annual artificial intelligence conference, has opened a new frontier in the AI inference arms race, as the booming market for AI agents like OpenClaw presents a complex new reality for Chinas semiconductor industry, according to analysts. The Nvidia Groq 3 Language Processing Unit (LPU), ...

As heightened conflict in the Middle East disrupts global shipping, China and Russia are considering deeper cooperation on logistics including use of the Arctic shipping route to secure a more resilient supply chain. At the inaugural China-Russia Logistics Business Forum held in Moscow on Monday, officials and business leaders discussed bolstering ...

Worsening fuel shortages resulting from the war in the Middle East are threatening sacred funeral ceremonies in Thailand, where Buddhist temples are scrambling to obtain diesel for cremations. The abbot of Wat Saman Rattanaram in Chachoengsao province, about 80km (50 miles) east of Bangkok, warned that a suspension of cremation services was a real ...

China leads the world in patent applications for anti-drone technology, which has drawn heightened attention during the wars in Ukraine and Iran and a spate of suspicious sightings in the West, according to intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire. Patent applications for anti-drone systems rose 27 per cent over the past year, with China submitting 82 ...

About 94 per cent of Hong Kongs students do not get enough daily exercise and 17.5 per cent are overweight, authorities have warned, urging schools and parents to tackle the growing fitness crisis together. The government report released on Tuesday also flagged low fruit and vegetable intake, poor vision health and excessive recreational screen time among ...

Indian investigators have arrested seven foreigners six Ukrainians and an American on suspicion of illegally crossing into neighbouring Myanmar to train armed militia groups, the public radio broadcaster reported on Tuesday. Myanmar descended into civil war after a junta seized power in a 2021 coup, with pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic-minority armed ...

A Chinese man has used public maritime radio to create a familys voice station on which sailors stranded in the Strait of Hormuz can relay safety messages to their families. Liu Yiwen, a native of Jilin province in northeastern China, is a second officer on a Singaporean commercial ship which is now anchored near the Khor Fakkan harbour administered by the ...

Thailand will start building fences along a portion of its border with Cambodia next month to boost security after deadly clashes between the countries erupted last year following long-standing tensions. The first barrier will cover 1.3km (0.8 miles) in Chanthaburi province along Thailands eastern border, according to Vithai Laithomya, spokesman of the ...

Chinese contract drug makers including WuXi AppTec, WuXi Biologics and WuXi XDC face a less certain long-term revenue outlook as US pharmaceutical companies bring production in-house and reconfigure supply chains amid rising US-China tensions. While near-term earnings remained largely locked in, visibility beyond that was limited, according to Cui Cui, ...

The navies of China and Vietnam have added live-fire drills to future joint training marking a deepening of military cooperation as Vietnamese Communist Party chief To Lam hailed relations with Beijing as a top priority. Naval commanders from both sides held a courtesy meeting on Monday at Fangcheng port in southern Chinas Guangxi, as Vietnamese frigates ...

Asian utilities are boosting coal-fired power generation to cut costs and safeguard energy supply, industry officials say, as the US-Israeli war on Iran chokes liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments and soaring prices threaten to suppress LNG demand. Asia spot LNG prices have doubled to three-year highs in the second major supply shock in four years, as ...

A former Hong Kong opposition politician has accused Chinas one-party rule system of being incompatible with the countrys constitution and failing to safeguard peoples fundamental rights, as he defended his calls to end dictatorship in a high-profile subversion trial. Ex-lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan, former chairman of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in ...

Every year, roughly half of Indonesias 288 million people pack into trains, buses, ferries and cars and head home. The mudik, as the great Eid ul-Fitr exodus is known, is one of the largest annual human migrations on Earth and a ritual of return that defines the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. This year, the Ministry of Transportation estimates ...

Famous Chinese actress Li Yitong, who rose from being Zhao Liyings stunt double to becoming a leading actress, has taken on 14 roles in a single year, earning her the name of a real-life Cinderella. Li, whose original name is Li Xue, was born in September 1990 in Jinan, Shandong province, northern China, and graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy with a ...

A Shanghai-based start-up claims to have mastered a technique for producing synthetic petroleum at low cost from air and water, as China intensifies efforts to develop alternatives to traditional fossil fuels amid the US-Israel war against Iran. Carbonology announced it had created a process for converting carbon dioxide extracted from air and water into ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Irans powerful national security chief Ali Larijani was eliminated last night, along with the commander of Tehrans Basij paramilitary force, General Gholam Reza Soleimani. I have just been updated by the Chief of Staff that Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and the head of ...

Hong Kong authorities are investigating whether a fire at a Kwai Chung car park that sent thick black smoke high into the sky on Tuesday afternoon was linked to the operation of an illegal fuel station. The Fire Services Department received a report shortly after 2pm of a truck ablaze at a car park on Container Port Road South in Kwai Chung. Witnesses said ...

Military escorts to protect tankers in the Strait of Hormuz are not a sustainable solution, according to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). It reduces the risk, but the risk is still there, IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez told the Financial Times. He said that a military deployment was not a long-term or sustainable solution. US ...

An independent committee set up to investigate Hong Kongs deadliest fire in decades has named 14 members of Wang Fuk Courts former owners corporation management group and seven residents as involved parties to give evidence at its hearings. The seven were among a list of 37 involved parties published on Tuesday by the committee ahead of the first of eight ...

Jiang Chaoliang, Communist Party chief of Hubei when Covid-19 first hit the province and a former prominent banker, has been indicted for accepting an especially huge amount of bribes starting in the 1990s. The investigation into his case, first announced in February last year, has closed, and the Nanjing Municipal Peoples Procuratorate has filed a public ...

The redeployment of US military assets from the Asia-Pacific to the Middle East has split security analysts, with some arguing that any strategic damage is largely psychological while others warn of a real and measurable gap opening in the regions defences. More than 2,000 marines and at least one amphibious assault ship have begun moving from Japan towards ...

Not only was he punched repeatedly by a peer, a Malaysian student at a secondary school in Kuching, Sarawak, was caned and forced to write a note admitting his mistake, China Press reported. Angered at how the case was handled, the boys mother shared the incident on social media and lodged a police report. The incident took place last Thursday when another ...

Hong Kongs conservation authorities captured eight wild boars in Wong Tai Sin on Tuesday following a report from residents. Police said staff from the Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) staff tranquillised the animals two large boars and six smaller ones before removing them. The force received a report at 10.07am of several wild ...

Even before the war in Iran sparked a surge in energy prices, Malaysia stood out from its Southeast Asian peers as the new-found darling of global investors. A rare stretch of political stability and investments in higher-value manufacturing and data centres lifted Malaysias appeal as some of its neighbours grappled with leadership changes and financial ...

Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said Tuesday, . The three blasts, which struck on Monday evening, came after an attack on a military post overnight Sunday to Monday, which authorities blamed on suspected jihadists. ...