Day: September 21, 2025

Chinese tech stocks surge past Nasdaq on the back of AI advance

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese tech stocks have massively outperformed their Nasdaq counterparts this year, with the trend being turbocharged over the past month by progress in both AI and Beijing’s push for chip self-sufficiency. The Hang Seng Tech index of the 30 biggest Hong Kong-listed technology companies has soared 41 per cent year to date, compared to a 17 per cent gain in the Nasdaq, as mainland China’s largest tech groups attain the…

Chinese team finds lunar landslides taking place, triggered by moonquakes

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Chinese scientists said they found active landslides taking place on the moon, primarily triggered by moonquakes. Advertisement The team said their findings will help to select more stable sites for future lunar bases, as China expands its space exploration ambitions, which include setting up a research station in the lunar south pole region by 2035. The researchers from Sun Yat‐sen University, Fuzhou University and Shanghai Normal University published their findings in the peer-reviewed National Science Review on September 11. The English-language journal is supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.…