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...the vast commercial potential of AI in the country and the appeal of large language models as a new approach to the field is nevertheless drawing in investors large and small, writes Nikkei Asia’s Cissy Zhou...
...The power of the CPLC was vividly demonstrated by Zhou Yongkang, who ran its fiefdoms with impunity under Hu Jintao, Xi’s predecessor....
...The best bit of advice I ever received was from my father, Zhou Xinfang, who was grandmaster of the Beijing Opera and a national treasure....
...company laid off tens of thousands of teachers working for its Koolern Technology online learning platform and posted a loss of $998.42mn for the nine months through February, writes Nikkei Asia’s Cissy Zhou...
...Some reviewers in the US had similar criticisms of the Mandarin — a heavily reworked version of the Marvel comic strips’ Fu Manchu — but Chinese actor Tony Leung received particularly strong criticism on...
...In recent years, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was first imprisoned for corruption, and then freed after a court ruling....
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...“In general this is increasing in China,” King-wa Fu, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, said of the spread of conspiracy theories on Chinese social...
...A collapse in global oil consumption following the spread of coronavirus into the US, Europe and elsewhere will “easily dwarf China’s demand recovery in the same period”, said Feng Fu, head of research for...
...“California has a lot of Asians, especially in Silicon Valley,” said June Fu, a 25-year-old marketing manager at a start-up....
...He accompanies himself on a shiny grand piano for a too-slow, souped-up version of “Ombra mai fù” — after a pre-show quickie with his cleaning lady....
...Meanwhile, her father Qi Houzhi served under Fu Zuoyi, the nationalist general who surrendered Beijing to the communists in January 1949 after weeks of siege by Mao’s forces....
...The star is the 15th-century painter Shen Zhou’s “Poems on falling flowers in running script” (est $1.2m-$1.8m), a handscroll written when the artist was grieving for a lost son....
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu and David da Silva Follow on Twitter: @tmitchpk...
...Nine months ago it would have been $110m,” said Kai-Fu Lee, who headed up Google’s operations in China at and now runs the VC firm Sinovation Ventures....
...Last month, Chinese AI start-up SenseTime raised $600m, led by Alibaba, while Sinovation Ventures, an AI-focused investment fund led by Kai-Fu Lee, former Google China chief, raised $500m to invest into...
...Zhou Bo argues that China is reshaping the international order....
...In January, Zhihu raised a further $100m from investors including Tencent, the internet group, and Sinovation Ventures, the venture capital company co-founded by Kai-Fu Lee, a former Google China executive...
...Like many scientists, Da Silva felt she needed an extra qualification to be taken seriously at executive level....
...Ms Fu said total defence spending would account for about 1.3 per cent of projected GDP in 2017....
...“The biggest bottleneck enterprises encounter is the strict controls on foreign exchange,” Fu Jun, chairman of conglomerate Macrolink, told state media....
...“It was a philosophical debate,” shrugs a person familiar with the two men, explaining the spat through a Chinese saying that has roots in kung fu: bu da bu xiangshi, which loosely translates as no discord...
...Everything about Ailuropoda melanoleuca (literally “black-and-white cat-foot”) or da xiongmao (“big bear-cat” in Chinese) is laden with meaning and symbolism....
...Mr Wang is the qigong master-turned oil mogul who testified in the trial of ousted energy and security tsar Zhou Yongkang....
...Wang Tianpu was detained late last month on suspicion of fronting for businesses belonging to Mr Zhou’s son....
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