Global Impact is a weekly curated newsletter featuring a news topic originating in China with a significant macro impact for our newsreaders around the world. Sign up now! Ahead of the US election, the world was bracing itself for a long, uncertain period during which America might descend into violence as a power struggle between … Read more
Nollywood actress Doris Simeon has opened up about the harrowing experiences she faced when her ex-husband, director Daniel Ademinokan, took their son, David, without her consent. PREMIUM TIMES reported that Doris Simeon married the filmmaker in 2006 and had their son before separating in 2010. Ademinokan married actress Stella Damasus and moved to the US … Read more
The Southeast Asian e-commerce market is expected to more than double in the next six years to reach US$370 billion by 2030, according to a report from US technology giant Google, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, and consultancy Bain & Co. The booming sector has attracted a slew of Chinese players – including Alibaba … Read more
With one of the biggest booths at the CIIE’s Intelligent Industry & Information Technology section, Samsung featured its GDDR7 chip, touted as one of the world’s most advanced memory products for graphics processing, as well as the HBM3E, which is designed for high-performance computing applications and artificial intelligence (AI) development projects. SK Hynix, meanwhile, showcased … Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, told its graphics-processor and AI-accelerator clients in mainland China that the company will no longer produce advanced chips for them, according to a person familiar with the matter. TSMC said in a notice sent earlier this week that it will stop accepting orders requiring the … Read more
Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House was not the surprise it was when he won his first term, Chinese officials have said, and this time, policy strategy and contingencies have been planned well in advance. When Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, Beijing, like the rest of world, was caught off guard … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) chip start-up Biren Technology, considered key to China’s efforts to reduce reliance on US chipmaker Nvidia, said it has significantly increased the performance of its hardware when training large language models (LLMs) by working with a Tencent Holdings-backed supplier of computing power, or compute. Biren, which Washington placed on a trade blacklist … Read more
China is aiming to take the global lead in a promising biotech area by setting its first national standards for “organ-on-a-chip technology”. The chips are an emerging research tool that could replace animal testing and speed up the time a drug takes to get from concept to market. “This milestone marks an important step forward … Read more
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] One of Asia’s most recognisable beers, and one of Singapore’s biggest success stories, embarks on a new chapter with the unveiling of a striking new look. In a stunt that caught the world’s attention, major cities across the globe witnessed the unveiling of … Read more
China’s top spy agency said a tip-off led investigators to crack a case of attempted smuggling of gallium – an essential component in military radar units that is subject to export controls – adding that it would continue to work to shut down theft of the country’s strategic minerals by “foreign espionage agencies”. The Ministry … Read more
