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· Ryan General
Huawei Patent Reveals Tech That Identifies Uyghur People
A patent filed by Chinese mobile phone brand Huawei has raised controversy over a feature that allegedly singles out people of Uyghur origin. The system, which purportedly identifies individuals belonging to the persecuted ethnic group, was discovered by U.S.-based research…
· Bryan Ke
Ex Huawei Employee Demands Severance Pay, Gets Detained for 8 Months
Chinese telecommunication corporation Huawei is under fire in China for detaining an ex-employee of 13 years after he demanded severance pay from the company. Li Hongyuan, the 35-year-old employee, was arrested in January for extortion charges and was kept in detention in…
· Ryan General
Huawei CEO Caught Carrying an Apple iPad at the Airport
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei is apparently a huge fan of Apple products. Zhengfei, whose company is competing with rival Apple Inc. in the tech market, was recently photographed in an airport security line carrying an iPad.
· Bryan Ke
Huawei Angers China After Listing Taiwan as a Country
Chinese netizens are calling Huawei out to apologize and threatening a boycott after the company listed Taiwan as another country in their phone’s settings. Huawei phone users discovered that when the time zone of the handset is changed, Taiwan’s capital is listed as “Taipei…
· Ryan General
Huawei Punks ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Viewers With Special ‘Post Credit Scene’
Sticking around until the very end of each Marvel film to find an extra scene or two has been a moviegoing tradition for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Usually embedded in between or right after the movie credits have rolled, these scenes usually offered either comic…
· Carl Samson
U.S. Formally Charges Huawei and CFO with Fraud, Obstruction and Conspiracy
The U.S. filed a slew of criminal charges against Chinese tech giant, Huawei and its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on Monday. The indictments, which include counts of fraud, obstruction, and conspiracy, escalate tensions between the U.S. and China — the world’s…
· Ryan General
Chinese Company Punishes Workers for Using iPhones, Rewards Them for Using Huawei
As Huawei faces a crisis following the arrest of its chief financial officer in Canada, some local businesses in China have been showing support to the brand by encouraging its employees to patronize its products. In Zhejiang province, a company has reportedly imposed a policy…
· Carl Samson
China Threatens U.S. With ‘Grave Consequences’ If Huawei CFO Is Not Released
China has warned the U.S. that it will take “further action” if the latter does not withdraw its arrest warrant for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. The 46-year-old tech executive was detained in Vancouver, Canada on Dec. 1 under a New York court warrant that accuses her of conspiring…
· Ryan General
China Demands Release of Huawei CFO Arrested in Canada
Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Chinese tech firm Huawei is now facing extradition to the United States after being arrested in Canada at the request of the U.S. government. Meng, who was apprehended by the Canadian Justice Department on Saturday in Vancouver, is set to have a…
· Carl Samson
Canada is Chinese citizens’ least favorite country, according to state media survey
Canada fell at the bottom of Chinese people’s list of favorite countries, a recent state poll reveals. A majority of Canadians feel the same way about China, according to another survey. The polls reflect ongoing tensions between Ottawa and Beijing, which escalated with the…
· Sarah Yukiko
Man stole more than $23,000 from his ex-girlfriend by using her phone’s facial recognition
A 28-year-old man, identified only as Huang, manipulated the technology on his ex-girlfriend’s phone to steal 150,000 yuan (nearly $23,600), which he needed to repay gambling debts. Court documents show that Huang, from the city of Nanning in southern China, manipulated two…
· Grace Kim
PwC diversity executives mocked Chinese accents, dressed as ‘bat from Wuhan’ during company trivia event
Two human resource executives at PwC, Australia’s largest consulting firm, are accused of racist behavior at the firm’s trivia event last Thursday, in which one of them was said to have dressed as a “bat from Wuhan” while the other mocked Chinese accents. The company is now…
· Ryan General
Chinese Miners Are Using 5G to Drive Vehicles During ‘Work From Home’
While many office employees were able to easily transition into a work-from-home set up due to the pandemic, the same cannot be said for the majority of those who do manual labor jobs. But for some construction workers and miners in China, 5G is now allowing them to do their…
· Bryan Ke
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Donates $14 Million to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine
Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba, reportedly donated 100 million yuan ($14.4 million) to help scientists develop a cure for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that has claimed 170 lives in China. The 55-year-old entrepreneur donated through the Jack Ma Foundation, designating…
· Carl Samson
The World’s Most Expensive Fish Costs Up to $300K And is Sometimes Given Plastic Surgery
There is a special kind of fish that draws the line between crazy rich Asians and everybody else. Meet the Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus), also known as the dragon fish, a species native to the freshwaters of Southeast Asia. If you have a pet fish like this, you can…
· Carl Samson
Chinese Engineer Accused of Stealing Apple’s Self-Driving Car Secrets for Rival Company in China
The FBI charged a self-driving car engineer at Apple for allegedly stealing trade secrets for a rival company based in China. Jizhong Chen, who was hired in June 2018, is the second Chinese employee to face the same accusation in six months, according to NBC Bay Area.
· Ryan General
China’s President is the ‘Most Dangerous Opponent of Free Societies,’ Says Billionaire George Soros
Billionaire George Soros has called Chinese President Xi Jinping “the most dangerous enemy” of free societies during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Hungarian-American investor told a dinner audience at the event that the Chinese leader’s power lies in…
· Editorial Staff
Xiaomi Teases Epic Foldable Smartphone That Can Become a Tablet
Xiaomi, one of China’s premier phone companies, released a video teasing their latest smartphone — a foldable smartphone and tablet device. On Weibo, Xiaomi co-founder and president Lin Bin posted a teaser video of their device which can fold on both sides to become a compact…
· Ziye Wang
China Sentences Canadian Man to Death For Allegedly Trying to Smuggle 500 Pounds of Meth
Tensions between China and Canada were re-kindled on Monday when a Chinese court sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for drug smuggling, a move that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has labelled as “arbitrary.” The ruling comes in the midst of an ongoing…
· Bryan Ke
A Chinese Ambassador Just Accused Canada of ‘White Supremacy’
Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to Canada, has accused the country of double standards and adapting “Western egotism” and “white supremacy” for demanding the release of the two detained Canadian diplomats in China following the arrest of a top Huawei Technologies executive. In an…