• Hungary opens up to Chinese tech despite protests

    Hungary is attempting to be a world power in manufacturing electric vehicle batteries, despite locals' reservations.

  • How Chinese firms are using Mexico as a backdoor to the US

    Chinese firms are racing to set up factories in Mexico to bypass US tariffs and sanctions.

  • Cagayan schools deny allegations on Chinese students

    Four schools in northern Philippines say the allegations that Chinese students in Tuguegarao City are spies 'display racism and Sinophobia'

  • #EndSARS protester arraigned for alleged rifle possession

    Three years after the #EndSARS protests, one of the protesters who is still being held in prison, Rasheed Bolaji Wasiu, was on Tuesday arraigned before the Lagos State High Court at the Tafa Balewa Square for alleged possession of firearms. Wasiu, who has been in Kirikiri Medium Security Prison in Lagos since 2020, was arraigned Read More

  • Cybersecurity Firm Darktrace Accepts $5 Bn Takeover

    Cybersecurity firm Darktrace said Friday it had accepted a $5.3-billion takeover bid from US private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which highlighted the British group's "capability in artificial intelligence".The cash bid comes after Thoma Bravo expressed takeover interest two years ago."Darktrace is at the very cutting edge of cybersecurity technology, and we have long been admirers of its platform and capability in artificial intelligence," Thoma Bravo partner Andrew Almeida said in a...

  • Cybersecurity firm Darktrace accepts $5 billion takeover

    Cybersecurity firm Darktrace said Friday it had accepted a $5.3-billion takeover bid from US private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which highlighted the British group's capability in artificial intelligence .The cash bid comes after Thoma Bravo expressed takeover interest two years ago. Darktrace is at the very cutting edge of cybersecurity technology, and we have long been admirers of its platform and capability in artificial intelligence, Thoma Bravo partner Andrew Almeida said in a statement....

  • Wada defends its actions over Chinese swimmers’ doping allegations

    Usada and others have suggested a possible cover-upWada agrees swimmers were victims of contaminationThe World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has insisted it would “not do anything different” in its handling of doping allegations against 23 Chinese swimmers, after it pushed back against criticism of a possible cover-up from across the world of sport.Reports last week said that ­Chinese athletes had been able to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 despite only months previously being found to have...

  • Man arraigned for allegedly defrauding firm of N27.5m

    The Nigeria Police on Thursday arraigned a 47-year-old man, Tokunbo Daramola, before the Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate’s Court, in Lagos, over alleged N27.5m fraud. Daramola was arraigned on a count of obtaining by false pretence, preferred against him by the police. The prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the defendant committed Read More

  • AUC Students Protest to Demand Divestment from Israel-Linked Firms

    Students at the American University of Cairo (AUC) staged demonstrations on 22 April urging the university administration to sever ties with corporations accused of supporting the Israeli occupation, a joint Instagram post by the Egyptian Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement and the Anthropology Sociology Egyptology Association (ASE) explains. The two companies in question are information and technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) and insurance company AXA, the post reveals. The...

  • Chinese authorities arrest 4 Tibetans for protest over land grab

    Tibetan residents demanded compensation for land illegally seized by authorities, sources say.

  • Alleged Chinese spy 'held key roles' in overseas democracy groups

    Guo Jian 'knew the details' of everyone who attended meetings of 2 different organizations, activists say.

  • TikTok: Chinese parent firm ByteDance says no plans to sell app

    The comments from ByteDance come after reports it was exploring the potential sale of the platform.