This month, two leading players in China’s AI industry, Zhipu AI and MiniMax, made dazzling debuts on the Hong Kong stock exchange. (AFP pic) Investor confidence in Chinese AI startups is riding high, ...

Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax's shares have surged since its Hong Kong listing this month (Tommy WANG) · Tommy WANG/AFP/AFP Investor confidence in Chinese AI startups is riding high, but obstacles ...

The guzheng virtuoso remembers being shocked by the traditional ceremony in China’s north-west. Now she’s processing it on stage Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email When Mindy Meng Wang’s ...

China’s consumer-price growth accelerated last month thanks largely to higher food costs, as deflationary risks stalk the world’s second-biggest economy in the absence of more forceful stimulus ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow arm of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and grasps the ...

BEIJING — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and ...

The US government has decided not to impose additional semiconductor tariffs on China for the next 18 months, despite concluding that Beijing's state-led chip ...

Liu Ren-haur. In Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung’s Birdy, the dancers wear 4-foot-long pheasant feathers on their heads. The effect, according to a review in the Vancouver online magazine Stir, ...

The Monkey King — known as Sun Wukong in Chinese — first burst fully-formed out of a rock in the classic 1592 novel Journey to the West, widely attributed to the poet Wu Cheng'en. Sponsor Message ...

Starbucks opened its first store in China in 1999, when drinking coffee in a Western-style café was still a novel idea to many locals. But in the years since, homegrown coffee and bubble tea brands ...