Nilesh Goswami

According to The Guardian, Beijing has ordered e-commerce company Alibaba to sell off media assets including Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) in an attempt to crack down on the growing public influence held by the country’s influential tech empires. Alibaba has become the center of this crackdown after founder Jack Ma, one of China’s [&hellip;]

2021

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China wants Jack Ma’s Alibaba to Shed Media Assets

Alibaba and Ant Group founder Jack Ma has lost the title of China&#8217;s richest man, according to a Shanghai-based Hurun report. This news comes at a time when his empire has been put under heavy scrutiny by Chinese regulators because Ma criticized them in October last year. According to Reuters, Ma and his family had [&hellip;]

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Jack Ma is not China’s Richest Man Anymore. Here’s Why

According to The Verge, the developers of audio chat room app Clubhouse plan to add additional encryption to prevent it from transmitting pings to servers in China, after Stanford researchers said they found vulnerabilities in its infrastructure. In a new report, the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) said it confirmed that Shanghai-based company Agora Inc., which makes [&hellip;]

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Clubhouse says it will Improve Security after Researchers Raise China Spying Concerns

According to Bloomberg, Shenzhen-based Telecom-equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co. and partners is using a site in the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province as a part of China’s first national project for intelligent vehicles. The country aims to make traffic smoother and safer with this, while also benefiting companies like Huawei as they could then [&hellip;]

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Huawei Develops Smart Roads that Talk to Driverless Cars

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PUBG was among 118 apps that have been banned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology. This move was taken amid the risen tension with China in Ladakh. Apart from PUBG, the list of apps banned by the government also includes Alipay, Game of Sultans, Applock, CamOCR, VPN for TikTok and many more. Ever [&hellip;]

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PUBG Ban Brings Out Hilarious Memes On Twitter

Mayukh Majumdar

Amidst rising tensions between India and China, the Indian government on Monday took the decision to ban 59 Chinese mobile applications including but not limited to, TikTok, Helo, WeChat, and Shein. This was done in a bid to counter and evaluate the threats these apps posed to the nation’s “sovereignty and security”. In a press [&hellip;]

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Following TikTok Ban, FWICE Urges Actors To Boycott Chinese Products

Sanika Achrekar

Hermes flagship store reopened few days ago after it had been on lockdown with most retail stores in China for several months due to coronavirus pandemic. According to WWD, Hermès made at least 2.7 million, in sales on the reopening day. According to multiple sources, this is possibly the largest one-day revenue total for a single [&hellip;]

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Hermes Guangzhou Flagship Store Made $2.7 Million The Day It Reopened

While the rate of infections dropped, Chinese authorities designated around 7,000 residential blocks in Wuhan “epidemic free”. Wuhan has, of course, been under a severe lockdown for months in a bid to battle the spread of the virus. Travel restrictions were set to be lifted on Wednesday in the city but due to the new [&hellip;]

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COVID-19: Thousands Flee Wuhan As China Lifts Lockdown

For the first time since January, China has reported zero new COVID-19 related deaths. This comes in the wake of new outbreaks in Wuhan, the seat and centre of the novel coronavirus pandemic where whole residential blocks have been locked down, just a day before travel restrictions were about to be lifted. According to The [&hellip;]

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China Reports Zero COVID-19 Related Deaths For The First Time Since January

After months of Coronavirus lockdown, China’s Hubei province is set to allow the resumption of all transportation from Wuhan on April 8 – the seat and centre of the deadly virus that has claimed thousands of lives worldwide. The coronavirus first emerged in the city last December. According to a statement posted on the provincial [&hellip;]

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Spain’s Death Toll Due To COVID-19 Overtakes That Of China

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