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Malaysia is Becoming More Mandarin-Speaking
The enrollment of non-Chinese students in Chinese-language schools in Malaysia is reportedly increasing rapidly, partly because employers are increasingly favoring speakers of Mandarin, according to a new report by the Singaporean publication Fulcrum. While numbers aren’t officially recorded, there are indications that this trend is expanding in line ...
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Nvidia Teams Up With Vietnam on AI Amid U.S.-China Tensions
Nvidia, the U.S. maker of advanced computer chips, signed an agreement to set up an advanced research and development center dedicated to artificial intelligence in Vietnam. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said in a statement: “We are delighted to open ...
Waiting for Trump: A Review of Chinese Perspectives on the Conflict in the Middle East
By Giorgia Facchini On November 27, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon came into effect, aiming to halt hostilities between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, who had been exchanging fire since the Hamas-led ...
Africa Has Other Friends if Trump Won’t Work With It: Kenya’s AU Candidate
By Dylan Gamba Kenya's candidate for the top job at the African Union said Saturday that if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump does not want to work with Africa, the continent has "other friends." Raila Odinga, ...
China’s Xi Hails ‘New Chapter’ in Relations With Indonesia
Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Indonesian counterpart that Beijing hopes for a "new chapter" in bilateral relations, as the two leaders met on Saturday. Xi held talks with President Prabowo Subianto in Beijing, the first stop of the Indonesian leader's ...
File image of the Coca Codo Sinclair dam in Ecuador that was financed and built by China. Image via amalavida.tv CC BY 2.0
By Julie Radomski Ten years after the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam first came online, the Chinese state-owned construction company Sinohydro Corporation finally turned the project over to the Ecuadorian state last Friday. Yet Ecuador only agreed to accept it under the condition that ...
Philippines Says China Air Force Harassed Its Plane Over Disputed Reef
The Philippine military on Saturday accused China's air force of "dangerous and provocative actions" against one of its planes patrolling over a disputed South China Sea reef. Two China air force aircraft "executed a dangerous maneuver at around 9:00am and dropped ...