Year: 2023

Apple’s key Chinese manufacturing partner Luxshare Precision Industry Co is set to gain control of an iPhone assembly site run by a Taiwanese rival, as the US tech giant fosters ties with mainland China-based suppliers to improve relations with Beijing. Luxshare is set to buy a 62.5 per cent stake in Pegatron Corp’s unit in Kunshan, China’s most affluent county in eastern Jiangsu province, for about 2.1 billion yuan (US$300 million), according to an exchange filing by the Taiwanese firm on Thursday. Taipei-based Pegatron currently assembles iPhones at its Kunshan…

Data from the International Coffee Organization shows coffee consumption in China grew 15 per cent in the year-long season ended in September from the previous cycle to 3.08 million bags. 02:25 Cafe in Japan introduces vertical sleeping pods for customers in need of a power nap Cafe in Japan introduces vertical sleeping pods for customers in need of a power nap “The Chinese consumer is increasingly adopting Western lifestyles and coffee is obviously one of the beverages that represent that,” said Jason Yu, managing director for Greater China at market…

“These rules further regulate the nomination process, for example, local governments are required to consult no fewer than five experts in the relevant fields before making nominations,” an expert on science and technology policy said. In the past, there was no such requirement but the key was whether the rules would be followed, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue. 03:16 Nobel Medicine Prize given to 2 scientists for mRNA research that enabled Covid vaccine Nobel Medicine Prize given to 2 scientists for…

Beijing should create an atmosphere of openness if it wants to attract many more young Americans to the country, according to a veteran expert on China’s talent recruitment and retention efforts. David Zweig, professor emeritus of the social science division at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said China’s plan to have 50,000 young Americans go to China over the next five years, was a “good goal” but also would be a “challenge”. “It’s important that China creates an atmosphere that says to these young people you’re welcome…

Many infectious diseases thrive through airborne transmission in the form of tiny droplets that can easily enter the respiratory tract. In the paper, the scientists said they set out to create a preventive treatment capable of intercepting and inactivating viral particles at the point of entry. The spray mask consists of a positively charged thermosensitive hydrogel that intercepts the negatively charged viral droplets when they are inhaled through the nose. Once the viral aerosols are trapped in the gel, the virus is inactivated by microsized vesicles – tiny cellular-derived structures…

In his speech, Xi touted China as a “responsible” global power rising under his head-of-state diplomacy since he took power in 2012 and said China had overcome “various difficulties and challenges” in its external work in the past decade. But he also warned of “high winds and choppy waters” ahead because the world had “entered a new period of turbulence and transformation” – a thinly veiled reference to Beijing’s feud with the US and its allies over ideological and geopolitical differences. Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the Central Conference…