Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Archaeological excavations in eastern China‘s Shandong province suggest that some of the oldest sections of the Great Wall were built 300 years earlier than previously thought.

João da Silva Business reporter CCTV A meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and some of the country’s foremost business leaders this week has fuelled excitement and speculation, after Alibaba founder Jack Ma was pictured at the event. The charismatic and colourful Mr Ma, who was one of China’s most prominent businessmen, had withdrawn from

UFI CEO Chris Skeith, OBE, introducing UFI’s training programme in Macao to the international MICE industry representatives at the 2025 UFI Asia Pacific Conference To aid MICE industry in the Greater Bay Area in expanding the international markets, the Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) collaborated with industry players to organise a delegation of over

AstraZeneca (AZN) is set to acquire U.S. biotech company FibroGen’s (FGEN) China unit for $160 million to expand its presence in the country. The transaction comes amid escalating trade frictions between the U.S. and China, following President Trump’s imposition of 10% tariffs on Chinese imports earlier this month. The deal is set to close by

BEIJING/SHENZHEN – Headhunter Jason Yang has been busy filling artificial intelligence (AI) jobs at top Chinese technology companies, from start-ups like DeepSeek to industry giants such as ByteDance. Speaking to The Straits Times at a crowded jobs fair in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen this week, the recruiter said that he has had to

In the heart of Jiangsu Province sits the China-Israel Changzhou Innovation Park – the main entry point for the growing number of Israeli tech companies flocking to form subsidiaries in China. Changzhou is the largest of China’s government-funded innovation parks, built to attract foreign tech talent, and was established within the first Chinese province to

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The US State Department website has replaced “People’s Republic of China” with “China” on its country fact sheet, following the removal of opposition to Taiwan’s independence on its Taiwan page.  The fact sheet for US-China Relations has been changed to write “Strategic competition is the frame through which the United States views

Dissidents from across the globe gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to tell the stories of their survival and escape from authoritarian regimes. In just a few days, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will kick off its 58th session in that same city. In his opening remarks at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and

Asia-Pacific markets fell on Thursday as investors reacted to US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose 25% tariffs on auto, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical imports. While Trump indicated that the duties could take effect as early as April 2, he did not specify whether they would target specific countries or apply broadly. The uncertainty weighed on