SINGAPORE: China’s national table tennis team has decided to disband all its athletes’ official fan clubs on social media to curb toxic fandom, spotlighting an issue that has reared its head not just in sports, but entertainment as well. The Chinese Table Tennis Association (CTTA) and the country’s national teamContinue Reading
The training covered safe vessel boarding at sea, maritime law, evidence collection and preservation, safety and risk mitigation and arrest techniques, according to the statement. The Australian Border Force joined the coast guard, customs enforcers and fisheries surveillance officials at the training as observers. China has stepped up expansion ofContinue Reading
China-India relations are back to sizzling again after a recent thaw. China recently created two new counties in Hotan Prefecture – an area in Aksai Chin that India claims as part of its Union Territory of Ladakh. The administrative move is expected to consolidate China’s de facto control of theContinue Reading
When was the last time you called an automated customer service hotline, desperate to explain your issue, only to find that none of the options fit your needs? Now imagine the hotline keeps parroting irrelevant responses – except millions of lives depend on you getting your point across. This isContinue Reading
Today, DeepSeek is one of the only leading AI firms in China that doesn’t rely on funding from tech giants like Baidu, Alibaba, or ByteDance. A Young Group of Geniuses Eager to Prove Themselves According to Liang, when he put together DeepSeek’s research team, he was not looking for experiencedContinue Reading
Two new bills introduced in the U.S. Congress today seek to strip China of its permanent normal trade relations status. In the House of Representatives, John Moolenaar (R-Michigan), who also serves as the chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Tom Suozzi (D-New York) introducedContinue Reading
As China’s foreign policy toward the African continent developed into a(n even more) pragmatic approach in the early 1980s – in particular, following the 11-country tour of Premier Zhao Ziyang in December 1982 – Sino-African relations became increasingly multifaceted. Since the first years of the reform and opening-up policy announcedContinue Reading
In 2014 I and roughly 150 others arrived to work for The Center for Teaching and Learning in China (CTLC), a company that since 1996 had brought a new cohort of teachers each year, mostly from the United States, and deployed them across Shenzhen to teach English in public schools.Continue Reading
A group of Uyghur refugees, after having been held in Thai prisons for over a decade, now face the imminent threat of deportation to China, a state known for its abuses against Uyghur Muslims. As the threat of deportation looms large, the international community finds itself at a crossroads. TheContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: The remains of a Singaporean who was killed in the earthquake that struck Taiwan’s Hualien county in April last year have been found. Taiwanese media reported on Sunday (Jan 26) that a 59-year-old man named Wang found what appeared to be human remains on a riverbed beneath a landslideContinue Reading
