JetBlue Airways will close its flight attendant base at Newark Liberty International Airport and tech operations bases in Newark and LaGuardia this fall to cut costs and expand service in Florida. No staff will lose their jobs, with employees able to bid or transfer.
Seattle has enacted a one-year ban on new data center construction, citing environmental concerns and rising electricity costs. The moratorium aims to allow for regulation development and assess data centers' use of urban land.
Shenzhen, China, is the global leader in rapidly and affordably transforming ideas into mass-market products, excelling in hardware-software integration and industrial scaling. This 'Shenzhen Speed' ecosystem fosters innovation in AI, autonomous vehicles, drones, and robotics, attracting talent and investment.
Hong Kong is injecting over HK$3 billion (US$382.8 million) into 73 university-led research commercialisation projects through the RAISe+ scheme, aiming to transform into a global tech hub. HKUST leads with 19 funded projects.
The US-led Pax Silica initiative aims to make the Philippines a key node in a global tech supply chain, focusing on semiconductors and AI. However, the plan faces scrutiny over speculative promises and risks escalating tensions with China, while also complementing America's growing military presence in the region.
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will visit China from Monday to Wednesday, meeting his counterpart Wang Yi and Vice-President Han Zheng. Discussions will cover the Strait of Hormuz, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Cleverly will also visit Shenzhen and then travel to India.
The government-backed Regional Tech Hub, which assists rural Australians with connectivity issues, faces closure due to a funding cut in the 2026 budget. The National Farmers Federation is seeking $2 million to keep the service running.
Renowned biologist Xu Xianzhong has returned to China, taking up a full-time position in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen, months after four researchers in his laboratory at the University of Michigan were accused by the United States of “biological material smuggling”. Xu, a fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science – has joined the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) as a senior investigator with its Institute of Bio-Architecture...
Huaqiangbei, home to the world’s largest electronics marketplace in southern China’s tech hub Shenzhen, is reinventing itself as the world’s artificial intelligence showroom, drawing back foreign traders and tourists hunting for the latest gadgets. For first-time visitors like Abigail Slagveer from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the sheer scale of Huaqiangbei’s electronics market is overwhelming. “I came here one and a half hours ago through that front door,” she said, pointing to an entrance just...
Union Minister Piyush Goyal met with luxury giants LVMH and L'Oreal to boost India's manufacturing, exports, and investments. Discussions centered on expanding production, nurturing local talent, and integrating Indian culture into global luxury supply chains. The talks also explored new avenues for India's beauty and personal care sector, leveraging L'Oreal's recent tech hub launch in Hyderabad.
The Communist Party chief of Hefei – a growing tech hub and capital of China’s central Anhui province – has been placed under investigation, the country’s top corruption watchdog announced on Wednesday. Fei Gaoyun, once widely recognised as a rising star in the “seventh-generation” of future national leaders, is the latest senior official to be snared in President Xi Jinping’s long-running anti-corruption campaign. The 54-year-old’s career trajectory was typical of China’s emerging generation of...
Hong Kong has made “significant” progress in its bid to transform itself into a technology hub, according to a Chinese venture capital investor, whose firm was recently selected by the city to invest in local start-ups under a HK$2 billion (US$250 million) government initiative. “You can see fundamental, significant changes are indeed taking place,” said Steve Sun, founding managing partner of Dalton Venture, in an interview on Thursday. “I believe that over the next decade, Hong Kong can...
Hong Kong residents flocked to Shenzhen on Friday, drawn by ‘better service’ at restaurants and family-friendly attractions as the Labour Day “golden week” holiday began. Affordability has also lured droves of Hongkongers across the border, with families budgeting about HK$1,000 (US$128) for a full day in the tech hub, covering restaurants, dental clinics, indoor amusement parks and ice-skating rinks. Labour Day is a statutory public holiday in Hong Kong and marks the start of mainland China’s...
In the southern tech hub of Shenzhen, a simmering rivalry between DJI and Insta360 has transformed their shared neighbourhood into a high-stakes corporate battleground. Both companies have long been hailed as the city’s poster children for Chinese innovation. DJI dominated the skies as the world’s undisputed leader in consumer drones, and Insta360 captured the niche market of panoramic cameras. Now they find themselves locked in a crosstown struggle for market supremacy that some say could...
Lenovo Group, the world's largest PC maker, has established an AI Innovation Lab at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP) in Hetao, becoming the first multinational tech firm to publicly announce a presence on the Hong Kong side of the cross-border tech cooperation zone. The 87-hectare park in Lok Ma Chau aims to combine Hong Kong's research and global market access with Shenzhen's manufacturing strengths.
Hong Kong should take a more proactive approach to removing barriers hindering the cross-border flow of people, capital, goods and data with neighbouring Shenzhen, analysts have said, as the new leadership of the mainland China tech hub signals a fresh push for deeper integration. The calls for action followed the appointment of Jin Lei, an economist and former official in Sichuan province, as Shenzhen’s Communist Party chief last month, succeeding Meng Fanli, who has since been named the...
