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Some six months after DeepSeek shook Silicon Valley, is the Chinese AI chatbot still relevant?

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, might be preparing his young daughter, Kim Ju-ae, to become his successor. Choe Sang-Hun, the ​Seoul bureau chief for The New York Times, analyzed North Korean state propaganda to find out.

Chinese and Asian American community members from across the New York area gathered on Friday at the United Nations Headquarters to mark the 80th anniversary of both the founding of the UN and victory ...

High-profile founder of China Renaissance Holdings went missing in 2023, sending company’s share price plunging
Bao Fan, a star dealmaker and the founder of the boutique investment bank China Renaissance Holdings, has been released more than two years after being detained by Chinese authorities, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
China Renaissance sent shock waves through the country’s financial sector in 2023 when it announced it was unable to contact Bao, who founded the bank in 2005 with two others and still owns nearly 49% of its issued shares. The company’s share price tanked as a result of his detention.

GKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Chinese box office hit, “ The Legend of Hei 2.” ...

The Trump administration levied a hefty tariff on goods that are moved through other countries, but it has not yet fully explained its plans.

Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily lives were strictly monitored
There is growing alarm in China that official efforts to control the spread of Chikungunya virus, a non-fatal mosquito-borne disease that has been spreading in the south of the country, are infringing on people’s personal rights.
A single mother living in Zhanjiang, a port city in Guangdong province, posted a video on social media this week showing a group of people, including a uniformed police officer, entering her children’s bedroom in the middle of the night and taking blood samples from the boy and the girl, without their mother’s presence or consent. The mother had been working a night shift so was not at home.

Robots on sale at the store include humanoid butlers, chess partners and dogs.

The Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins, visits factories threatened by US tariffs in Guangzhou, south China, as the deadline for a US-China trade agreement approaches with no deal yet in sight
Ever since Donald Trump came to power, China has been threatened by a trade war – with tariffs on its products into the US at one point set at an extraordinary 145%.
In May, however, the two countries agreed to a partial truce – one that is expiring on Tuesday 12 August.

The attack left a girl of 14 with minor injuries, but why did it spark such furious protests in the city of Jiangyou?
It started as an unpleasant, although not uncommon, teenage bullying incident.
On 2 August, a video appeared online, showing a group of teenage girls kicking, slapping and mocking another girl, later revealed to be aged 14, in an abandoned building in Jiangyou, a small city of 730,000 in south-west China. According to the local police, the attack, which took place on 22 July, resulted in minor injuries to the girl’s scalp and knees.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeff Niu, 31, a Columbia University graduate and American-born Chinese living in Beijing. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I'm ...

While working in Beijing, Jeff Niu wanted to know what it was like to be treated as a Chinese employee. He found it hard.