Several Chinese companies ended commercial partnerships with Kylian Mbappé, the 27-year-old Real Madrid and France footballer, on Tuesday after a video circulated in which he appears to refer to a meme of his face edited onto an image of Mao Zedong.
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A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck northern Tibet at 10:33 p.m. local time on Thursday, killing at least 16 people. Local authorities put the number of injured at 76.
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Chinese automakers made up nearly a third of the 64 brands exhibiting at the Paris Motor Show this year, the clearest sign yet of how quickly they have moved into Europe.
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Anthropic warned this week that steady gains in small AI models could eventually let them spread across internet-connected devices like Android TV boxes and smart appliances, and that models distributed across many devices could prove harder to shut down than ones running in a data center. The company laid out the findings in a blog post published Thursday.
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Arnaud Aymé, speaking at the Paris Motor Show, laid out a picture of a European auto industry that has lost ground to Chinese manufacturers and now has to rebuild its competitiveness rather than wall itself off.
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Hoi An's chicken rice traces back to Chinese migration into Central Vietnam, where Hainanese traders settled between the late 16th and early 18th centuries and left their mark on the town's architecture, including the Hainan Assembly Hall on Tran Phu Street.
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Hilda Baci wants Nigerian restaurants to become as common abroad as Chinese restaurants, and she's betting her own chain on it.
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A new study from Allianz Trade, the credit insurance arm of the Munich-based insurer, finds that Europe's automotive industry is facing a crisis of its own making. The study, released Friday, says European car companies cut their investments by 20% this year even as other large European companies with big market capitalizations increased investments by 10%.
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India will hold the International Tourism Mart in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, from October 27 to November 1. The event is organized by the Union Ministry of Tourism and the Arunachal Pradesh tourism department, and it rotates among the north-eastern states.
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Japan has dropped out of the top 10 overseas destinations for Chinese travellers planning trips over the National Day holiday, according to the travel agency Tuniu. A year earlier, Japan was first on the same list.
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Leaders of the expanded BRICS bloc concluded a three-day summit in New Delhi on Monday, issuing a joint declaration that addresses global supply chains, financial infrastructure, and regional conflicts.
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The 18th BRICS Summit concluded on September 13 in New Delhi, bringing together leaders representing 11 members and 10 partner countries as the bloc celebrated its 20th anniversary.
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Chinese researchers discovered a large underwater mineral deposit rich in gold and silver in the western Pacific Ocean, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday. The deposit lies within China's exclusive economic zone, though official reports did not disclose the precise geographical coordinates of the site.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for a two-day BRICS summit hosted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking his first visit to the country since 2019.
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is launching a recruitment campaign to add roughly 150 senior backend engineers. The push comes as the Hangzhou-based company works to upgrade infrastructure strained by surging data volumes, larger training workloads, and growing numbers of active users.
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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released its 15th Five-Year Plan on Monday, setting development targets for the country's technology and communications sectors through 2030. The policy blueprint aims to unify telecommunications, computing infrastructure, and artificial intelligence into a single domestic industrial system.
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