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Shenzhen, 16 August 2026 – Researchers at Shenzhen University have developed an artificial-intelligence model that may help identify depression risk as far as four years in advance, using…
Beijing, 16 August 2026 – Tencent is testing an artificial-intelligence agent named Xiaowei inside WeChat, seeking to turn China’s dominant super-app into a conversational control layer for everyday…
Hong Kong, 16 August 2026 – Shop closures on Yu Chau Street in Sham Shui Po are raising questions about the future of Hong Kong’s specialised Bead Street…
Beijing, 16 August 2026 – Affluent county-level economies are emerging as pockets of consumer strength while China’s wider domestic-demand recovery remains uneven. Industrial clusters, entrepreneurship and improving services…
Singapore, 16 August 2026 – Singapore has raised its 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.5%–5.5% after stronger first-half activity, with artificial-intelligence demand supporting electronics, precision engineering and trade-related…
Kuala Lumpur, 16 August 2026 – Hainan is positioning its free-trade port as a gateway between China and Southeast Asia, with opportunities across shipping, digital trade, investment, tourism…
Hangzhou, 16 August 2026 – Alibaba’s Qwen model family surpassed 3 billion downloads over six months. The company has released more than 460 models and says developers created…
Tokyo, 16 August 2026 – Japan’s strategy debate increasingly links credible deterrence with economic renewal. Security capacity depends on a productive economy, while investment confidence benefits from a…
Hong Kong, 16 August 2026 – Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis University Town has expanded beyond 1,000 hectares, with 19 proposals from local institutions and phased tendering and development…
Nanjing, 16 August 2026 – A 1MW perovskite solar installation was compared with 3.5MW of silicon capacity at the same farm. Normalised results showed perovskite producing 3.42% more…
