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China’s benchmark government bond yield fell to a nearly 22-year low with experts attributing the development to a shift in investor behaviour towards fixed-income products amid a fragile economic recovery. The onshore 10-year government yield slipped to 2.22%, the lowest since 2002. Yields on the 20- and 50- year bonds have been trading at their historic lows for months. What does the bond market’s performance showGovernment bond yields are critical indicators of economic confidence and investor sentiment. Despite recent upgrades to growth forecasts, the bond market’s performance suggests ong...
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By Rebecca BAILEY Shanghai (AFP) - Des téléphones capables de détecter les escroqueries de type "deepfake" aux véhicules autonomes intelligents, le potentiel révolutionnaire de l'intelligence artificielle a occupé le devant de la scène lors du coup d'envoi du Salon mondial du mobile (MWC) à Shanghai, mercredi. Certaines des plus grandes entreprises chinoises ont présenté leurs derniers produits et leurs visions d'un avenir dominé par l'intelligence artificielle (IA). La marque d'appareils intelligents Honor a dévoilé une technologie capable de détecter les appels frauduleux, et d'en avertir le...
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Image created from Public Domain Pictures by Oiwan Lam. License CC0 Public Domain China issued a set of guidelines for its judiciary on handling crimes related to advocating Taiwan's independence last Friday, June 21 2024. The new guidelines, jointly issued by China’s judicial and security authorities, list out acts of secession and authorize absentia trials and the punishment of “diehard” Taiwan separatists with the death penalty and no statute of limitations. Although the Chinese courts have no jurisdiction over Taiwan, the guidelines state that security authorities can issue global warrants...
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Caption of Youtube video Mina de Buriticá: minería moderna de Colombia para el mundo. By Zijin-Continental Gold. Fair use. On May 30, 2024, four communities in Buriticá, home to 10,000 residents in western Colombia, sent an SOS letter to public authorities, urging action against the increasing violence near the country’s largest gold mine. This mine is operated by Zijin Continental Gold, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Zijin Mining, which sued the Colombian government in November 2023 for not protecting it from attacks by local miners. These local miners do traditional and small-scale mini...
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India and China emerged as the top destinations for Russian seaborne fuel oil and vacuum gasoil (VGO) exports in May. Traders and data from LSEG indicated a significant increase in these exports, reflecting shifts in global trade patterns following the European Union’s embargo on Russian oil products. Surge in Russian fuel oil and VGO exports Russian fuel oil and VGO seaborne exports saw a notable rise of 12% from April, reaching approximately 4 million metric tons in May. This increase was partly due to the completion of seasonal maintenance, which allowed for higher production and export vol...
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to block access to the technology used to build artificial intelligence products for entities in China and several other countries, according to a report by a Chinese state-owned newspaper on Tuesday. New restrictions on API access ChatGPT is not available in mainland China, but many Chinese startups have accessed OpenAI’s application programming interface (API) platform to build their own applications. This accessibility is set to change. As of late Monday, Chinese users began receiving emails stating they are in a “region that OpenAI does not currently support”. Th...
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A potential U.S. ban on TikTok may significantly impact Oracle’s revenue, as the software giant acknowledged in its annual report released on Monday. This development follows President Joe Biden’s April bill requiring ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, to sell the platform within nine months to avoid a ban in the U.S. TikTok’s relationship with Oracle Oracle provides critical cloud infrastructure for TikTok, which boasts over 150 million U.S. users. The company’s reliance on Oracle’s services means that any disruption could adversely affect Oracle’s financial performance. The company stated th...
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Dr. David Robie. Image: Asia Pacific Media Network, used with permission Global Voices interviewed veteran writer and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism education, and the role of the press in addressing decolonization and the climate crisis. Professor Robie is among this year’s New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and is on the King’s Birthday Honours list for his “services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.” His career in journalism has spanned five decades. He was the founding editor of the Pacific Journalism Review journal in 1994 and in 1...
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Pékin (AFP) - La sonde chinoise Chang'e-6, qui transporte des échantillons de la face cachée de la Lune, doit revenir mardi sur Terre, au terme d'une mission ardue de 53 jours qui constituerait une première mondiale en cas de réussite. En raison de sa complexité, il s'agit d'une des missions spatiales les plus ambitieuses de la Chine jamais conduites. L'agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA) n'a pas annoncé l'heure d'arrivée prévue, mais des experts estiment qu'elle se posera probablement dans l'après-midi dans une zone désertique de la région de Mongolie intérieure (nord de la Chine). La face cachée...
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Image © 2024 Appcensorship. Used with permission. When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok, along with other globally popular social media platforms, is also unavailable in China. Conversely, ByteDance tailor-made a local version, Douyin, for Chinese users, to comply with the country’s stringent censorship rules. In fact, TikTok is n...
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