9 December 2024

Shares of Chinese biotech service providers WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics surged on Monday, after a draft US legislation seeking to eliminate their linchpin role in global drug development missed its last big window for passage into law this year. WuXi AppTec’s shares rose as much as 12 per cent in early trading in Hong […]

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group Holding, on Friday visited the company’s campus in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, in a show of support for the e-commerce empire he created a quarter of a century ago, according to employees. Ma’s visit was his first known trip back to to his hometown since March 2023,

Alibaba Group Holding’s workplace collaboration app, DingTalk, has officially launched in Hong Kong, the first stop that is considered a “touchstone” in the overseas expansion of the professional office tool. DingTalk, which has always been accessible to users in Hong Kong, will establish a new service team based in the city to “better respond to

NetEase, China’s second-largest video gaming company, has cut an undisclosed number of jobs involved in an “underperforming” project that will soon be shut down, according to a person with knowledge of the matter and Chinese media reports. The lay-offs at the company’s offices in southern tech hub Shenzhen affected employees involved in mobile game Hyper

Robots can cook dishes as delicious as human chefs, and a Shenzhen start-up is trying to convince the world of that. While the automation and artificial intelligence (AI) transformation has been making waves in factories and warehouses, it has yet to make a meaningful impact when it comes to cuisine, said Shirley Chen Rui, chief

In August 2012, a young Chinese entrepreneur posted to the online forum BitcoinTalk that he was selling shares in a company that would make hardware with chips dedicated to mining bitcoin and pay out dividends based on its earnings. Jiang Xinyu, known as Friedcat on the forum, was one of the first people in the