Asian stocks traded mostly lower on Tuesday as Washington and its allies weighed retaliation against Iran for its alleged involvement in weekend drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. | Image: AP Photo/Lee Jin-manAsian stocks tumbled on Tuesday, as the flight from risk assets continued in the wake of devastating weekend attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry.Latest…
Chinese industrial production showed renewed weakness in August. | Image: AFP / China Stocks in mainland China and Hong Kong tumbled on Monday after Beijing reported a sharper than expected slowdown in industrial production, signs that the ongoing trade war with Washington was ravaging domestic producers. Chinese Stocks Decline Mainland China’s Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300…
Viral Chinese app ZAO is at the center of a privacy storm. | Source: REUTERS/Florence Lo/IllustrationZao is the app of the moment, ranking atop Chinese app sales charts in less than a week. The Zao uses Deepfake technology to allow people to plaster their own faces on top of any character they want after a…
EOS scored an awareness boost after being featured on Chinese television, but critics warn China has become a systemic risk to the cryptocurrency. | Source: ShutterstockEOS received a major boost in awareness this week thanks to a Chinese television show that featured a popular blockchain RPG called Crypto Sword & Magic.”ICS Money Talks,” the only…
The Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times cited the words of pop superstar Taylor Swift in an attack on President Donald Trump on Monday after she accused him of “gaslighting” his opponents into questioning their own love for the country. In a piece titled “Why Are the Chinese Brushing Aside Trump’s Tweets?” opinion writer Mu Lu tries…
After a week of modest gains, major stock indexes plummeted on Friday as China retaliated against U.S. tariffs by imposing $75 billion worth of tariffs on U.S. goods coming into the country. China’s foreign ministry said that it would resume tariffs on U.S. imports of automobiles and auto parts and place an additional 5% or…
The final hours for China’s Tiangong-2 space station are at hand, as the 8-ton piece of hardware will fall to earth, or rather sea, some time in the next 20 hours or so in a controlled deorbit manuever. But unlike with its predecessor, it isn’t a mystery where this particular piece of space debris is…
