Xiaomi’s HK$1 trillion market value, self-driving features in new Chinese cars: 5 EV reads
[South China Morning Post] - 02/5/2025
From Xiaomi’s market value surpassing HK$1 trillion to self-driving features in new Chinese cars, here are five EV stories you may have missed.
In Chinese newspapers
US Postal Service reverses decision to suspend taking parcels from Hong Kong, mainland China
The service will continue to accept low-value duty-free imports, after saying it was stopping deliveries in line (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Russia’s close ties with North Korea and Iran represent diverging goals
Key differences in comprehensive strategic partnership treaties with Pyongyang and Tehran give insight into Moscow’s (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 4/02/2025
Operation Santa Claus: HK$13.2 million raised in last 2 months of 2024
Funds will benefit over 11,000 needy Hongkongers through 11 charities, with total raised since 1988 inception (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Ashes of actress Barbie ‘Big S’ Hsu sent back to Taiwan
Hsu’s sudden death caused by flu-triggered pneumonia shocked fans around the world.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Belt and robot: Chinese start-up to open first robotics facility in Central Asia
Shanghai-based start-up AgiBot will partner with Kazakhstan to open the first Chinese robotics manufacturing and (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Room with a seal view: Dutch hotel gets unusual guest
The seal had become ‘quite grumpy due to its disturbed beauty sleep’ and animal rescue moved it to a more usual (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
2 ex-project managers in Hong Kong face fraud charges in fake quotes case
Yip Hing-fai, 45, and Wong Chun-tung, 43, oversaw projects for ATAL Engineering, founded by the husband of city’s (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Battle of the bots: China, US scrap for top of the humanoid heap
China, fuelled by recent successes from DeepSeek and Unitree, is making a play for pole position in humanoid robots. (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 4/02/2025
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of world’s Ismaili Muslims, dies at 88
Both a business magnate and a philanthropist who donated billions, he moved between the spiritual and the worldly (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Indonesia’s nickel sector faces headwinds from Trump’s electric vehicle curbs
The move by US President Donald Trump to revoke electric vehicle incentives may also widen China’s dominance in (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
China trains ‘special mission’ pilots for combat readiness on Fujian carrier: CCTV
Electromagnetic catapult system allows for heavier and more advanced aircraft, such as KJ-600 airborne early warning (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025