24 June 2025

In Suzhou, eastern China’s Jiangsu province, the start-up Magic Lab specialises in full-sized humanoid robots designed to interact with people and work in factories – just one example of the Yangtze River Delta region’s transformation into a national innovation hub. “More than 90 per cent of the components, including critical parts like torque motor joints, […]

Chinese voice recognition giant iFlytek has launched a series of artificial intelligence (AI) products in Hong Kong, where its new international headquarters will support its global expansion, as the firm doubles down on a commitment to home-grown computing infrastructure amid tightened US chip restrictions. iFlytek is making an upgraded international version of its Spark medical

Huawei Technologies continues to face challenges in advancing to the 5-nanometre chip manufacturing process, an analysis of its latest laptop hardware shows, underscoring the impact of US sanctions on the Chinese telecoms equipment giant. Canadian research firm TechInsights found that the newly launched MateBook Fold Ultimate Design laptop features Huawei’s Kirin X90 system-on-a-chip (SoC), which

China’s central bank could use Hong Kong as a sandbox for testing digital payment alternatives to internationalise the yuan, but Beijing’s digital currency ambitions face hurdles because of the country’s economic challenges, according to Morgan Stanley. Hong Kong has established the world’s first regulatory regime for stablecoins – digital tokens that are pegged to a