Cantopop star was fined HK$2,200 for various traffic offences after obtaining his probationary driving licence in February last year
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BYD challenges Porsche’s 911 with launch of electric supercar in Europe
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) assembler BYD has set its sights on Porsche’s supercars with plans to sell its Denza-branded new models in developed markets, the latest sign of its increasing heft in designing and manufacturing premium vehicles.
The Shenzhen-based carmaker planned to unveil the Denza Z sports car featuring BYD’s self-developed intelligent DiSus body control system at the UK’s Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday, it announced in
BYD surpasses Tesla in global race; ‘do-or-die’ crisis in China’s market: 7 EV reads
From China’s shift to electric heavy trucks to BYD regaining its lead in the global race, here are seven EV stories you may have missed
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Canadian province prepares lawsuit against OpenAI after school mass shooting
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Action being taken against OpenAI for its failure to alert authorities to violent prompts on ChatGPT before the shooting
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British Columbia said on Tuesday it was preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI over the company’s failure to report violent ChatGPT activity by the person who committed a mass school shooting in the western Canadian province.
OpenAI had banned
‘Shameful’: Chinese school faces backlash for demanding new students’ family wealth details
A secondary school in eastern China is at the centre of controversy for collecting the information of its fresh students’ parents, including what brand of car they drive and their values.
Dongying No 1 Middle School in Dongying, Shandong province, distributed the information collection form in late June among students who were recently admitted, China Newsweek reported.
Students were requested to fill in the details of their parents’ names, where they work, their titles and their
Why a bluefin tuna boom is slicing into livelihoods of Japanese fishermen
A quota system is forcing many fishermen to dump the prized sushi fish in the Pacific, squeezing their income
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In May, Japanese fisherman Tadasuke Nakamura noticed he had an abnormally large haul of bluefin tuna in his set net off the Pacific coast of Hakodate, on Japan ’s northern island of Hokkaido.
Hundreds of the prized sushi fish crowded the net, but he had to let many of them go.
Japan has
Google DeepMind director Cao Liangliang makes a boomerang-return to Hong Kong
In a homecoming for Hong Kong’s artificial intelligence community, Cao Liangliang – former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, IEEE Fellow and architect of foundational AI systems at Google, Apple and IBM – has returned to the city after a two-decade absence.
His appointment as Chair Professor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) last week completes an intellectual boomerang trajectory that began under renowned mentor Tang Xiao’ou at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003.
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Philippine president backs defence chief over China sanctions
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has broken his silence on China’s sanctions against his defence chief, in remarks seen as a closing of ranks that could complicate diplomacy between Manila and Beijing in the near term.
Observers say the president’s public backing of outspoken Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro amounts to a “good cop, bad cop” approach that signals Manila’s resolve and