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US employers added a solid 206,000 jobs in June in a sign of continued economic strength
US employers added a solid 206,000 jobs in June in a sign of continued economic strength
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The European Union has slapped extra provisional duties of up to 38 percent on Chinese electric car imports because of "unfair" state subsidies, despite Beijing's warnings the move would unleash a trade war. But company reps in both China and Europe are critical of the steps. Brussels launched an investigation last year into Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers to probe whether state subsidies were unfairly undercutting European automakers.Since announcing the planned tariff hike last month, o
Apple unfairly sacked an employee at its London headquarters who took secret photos of a female colleague and shared them with other staff, a judge has ruled.
The recently retired CEO of semiconductor equipment maker ASML said in an interview with Dutch radio station BNR on Saturday that U.S.-China disputes over computer chips are ideological and not based on facts, and they are set to continue. Wennink left in April after a ten year term at the helm of ASML that saw it become Europe's largest technology firm. Since 2018, the U.S. has imposed increasing restrictions on what tools the company can export to China, its second-largest market after Taiwan, citing security concerns.
The mercantile history of Guangzhou, the city once called Canton that is about two hours' drive from Hong Kong, can be traced back to Wu Bingjian, one of the richest men to have ever lived on Earth. Better known among foreigners as Howqua, the 18th-century merchant accumulated enormous wealth running one of the 13 trading houses, or hong, that were granted exclusive rights by the Manchu rulers in Peking to sell tea, porcelain, silk and other exotic goods to Westerners, until the Opium War shatte
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Keynote Themed “Navigating Tomorrow: Strategic Pathways for Hong Kong's Future Evolution” Four Unique Advantages Leading to Artificial Intelligence Development Opportunities in Hong KongHONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 6 July 2024 - Accounting Development Foundation 15th Anniversary Conference was successfully held on 29 June 2024 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with 434 attendees marking a landmark event in the Accounting industry. The event themed "Navigating Tomorr
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - China's anti-dumping probe into Europe's cognac industry is a tit-for-tat reaction to European Union tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, the finance chief at Hennessy cognac owner LVMH said on Saturday. China announced plans on Friday for a hearing on European brandy imports, ramping up tension on the same day the European Commission's provisional tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles took effect.
China's rapidly expanding artificial intelligence (AI) sector has nudged aside finance to top the country's salary rankings for the second quarter of 2024, as Beijing's push for self-sufficiency in tech and the rush to capitalise on the industry's global popularity are helping firms in the field outpace the banks, funds and brokerages that have tended to offer the highest-paying jobs. Propelled by an explosion of demand as businesses race to develop and trial AI applications, jobs in this sector
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) is "strongly dissatisfied" with anti-subsidy tariffs proposed by the European Union, the industry group said in a statement on Saturday. Manufacturers had cooperated with the European Commission's investigation into Chinese subsidies, but the inquiry had ignored the facts and preselected results, CAAM said in a post on the Chinese messaging app WeChat. The EU imposed tariffs of up to 37.6% on imports of electric vehicles made in China from Friday, with a four-month window during which the tariffs are provisional with intensive talks expected between the two sides.
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Shanghai has published China's first governance guidelines for humanoid robots, calling for risk controls and international collaboration, as tech giants like Tesla showed off their own automatons at the country's largest artificial intelligence (AI) conference. Makers of humanoid robots should guarantee that their products "do not threaten human security" and "effectively safeguard human dignity", according to a new set of guidelines published in Shanghai during the World Artificial Intelligenc