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Malaysian Indians: A Diminishing Voice in a Changing Nation Police smash triad-linked drug ring using foreign women to target pubgoers
Hong Kong police have smashed a syndicate that used provocatively dressed foreign women to sell drugs at pubs and entertainment venues, arresting three people and…
Samantha Johnson
What is a supernode, and why does it matter for the China-US tech rivalry?
As the size of artificial intelligence models expands beyond 1 trillion parameters, a new concept is dominating the computing landscape: “supernode”.
At this year’s World Artificial…
1 dead after small plane crashes into house in Germany
At least one person died when a light aircraft crashed into a single-family home in the northern German state of Lower Saxony on Saturday.
A police…
Lawmakers return from historic Beijing trip with insights on Hong Kong’s 5-year plan
Hong Kong lawmakers have said they gained new insights on how best to assist the government in creating the city’s first five-year plan following an…
China completes first high-speed rail tunnel under the Yangtze River
China finished the first high-speed railway tunnel under the Yangtze River on Friday, marking a major step forward in the construction of a line that…
Job fears in changing world make AI a hot subject at China’s vocational schools
Five years after graduating from a vocational school in the southern Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, Chen Hao found himself working as a salesman for…