Between the first quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2024, dollar-denominated loans to emerging Asian economies ...

Muji has opened new stores in cities including Beijing, Chengdu, and Shenzhen as part of a broader retail push in China, where sales have reportedly grown for ten consecutive months. The brand now ...

Nintendo sold 1.6 million units of the Switch 2 in the US in June, setting a new hardware launch record and driving game hardware spending to USD 978 million, up 249% YoY, according to Circana. Mario ...

China’s science ministry issued ethical guidelines for autonomous driving on July 23, requiring developers to prioritize safety, restrict data collection to driving functions, and document relevant ...

Chinese tea brand Xianji opened its first flagship store in Hangzhou on July 18, transforming a restored heritage building into an immersive, matcha-focused space. The cafe combines live preparation, ...

Respiree, a Singapore-founded health tech firm, has raised USD 11.6 million in a Series A funding round co-led by We Venture Capital and ClavystBio, with participation from Adaptive Capital Partners, ...

Alibaba could launch its first AI glasses as early as this week, marking its official entry into the smart wearable market. The device is expected to come in two versions (with or without AR) and will ...

China has begun construction on a USD 170 billion hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River, its most ambitious project since the Three Gorges Dam. Expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours ...

A Romoss power bank allegedly caught fire in a shopper’s pocket in Shanghai on July 22, causing third-degree burns and requiring skin graft surgery. The device matched a previously recalled model but ...

Alibaba-backed Lingyang launched its first enterprise-grade AI agents on July 23. Already in use by several companies, the agents support a range of business scenarios through collaborative automation ...

China has begun construction on a USD 170 billion hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River, its most ambitious project since the Three Gorges Dam. Expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours ...

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3-Coder, a 480-billion-parameter MoE code model built for agentic coding and tool use. With native 256,000-token context and large-scale reinforcement learning, it reportedly ...