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China's AI sector showed confidence this week at a major fair in Shanghai that it would overcome restrictions imposed by the West, with companies rolling out cutting-edge products developed by a ...

China's AI sector showed confidence this week at a major fair in Shanghai that it would overcome restrictions imposed by the West, with companies rolling out cutting-edge products developed by a ...

As the first Asian American "Bachelor" lead in 22 years, Jenn felt "a lot of pressure." But she hopes to be the role model she didn't see in media.

At Chou’s place in Los Alamitos, shoes come off indoors. Chou, who is Taiwanese American, could cook Asian dishes. Soon the foster child was asking for certain foods. “The request was for chicken ...

China's AI sector showed confidence this week at a major fair in Shanghai that it would overcome restrictions imposed by the West, with companies rolling out cutting-edge products developed by a ...

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Thousands of people lined the streets in the Pocket area for the 30th annual Fourth of July Parade. Floats, marching bands, children, politicians and veterans took part in the parade. For the first ...

A probe by U.S. federal law enforcement agencies is the latest development in an ongoing dispute involving the Chinese national swimming team and world anti-doping authorities as the Paris Olympics ...

Higher levies on Chinese EV imports to come into force despite carmakers’ fears of retaliation
The EU’s top trade official, Valdis Dombrovskis, has brushed aside concerns of trade-war retaliation from Beijing against European business, after the European Commission imposed duties on Chinese electric vehicles.
Dombrovskis, a European Commission vice-president, told Bloomberg Television that talks with China were ongoing, adding: “We are not seeing the basis for retaliation as what we are conducting is indeed in line with WTO [World Trade Organization] rules.”

The move escalates a fight with China and world antidoping officials, and will cast a shadow of criminality over the Paris Olympics.

Auctioneers taken aback by high price fetched by porcelain collected by local woman’s grandfather during Boxer rebellion
Gill Stewart was in her attic rooting around for the Christmas decorations when she came upon the box unpromisingly labelled “broken porcelain” passed on to her by her grandfather 20 years before.
Her first instinct was to put it in the bin but, happily, she decided to take it to an auctioneer on the off-chance, and the pieces have netted her a very pleasant £160,000.