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The Alibaba Cloud booth during the Hong Kong Fintech Week in Hong Kong on Nov. 3
BUSINESS / Tech
Alibaba denies report it helps China's military target U.S.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has denied helping Beijing target the United States, saying Saturday that a recent media report was "completely false."
BUSINESS / Tech
India’s top tech schools see opportunity in Trump’s H-1B curbs
With annual campus recruitment season set to begin in a few weeks, the country’s brightest engineers no longer see U.S. jobs as essential for success.
BUSINESS / Tech
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
They are designed not to fluctuate in value, and that's precisely what makes them attractive.
The Munich court found that OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, was not entitled to use song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence without licenses, and that the artists who wrote them are entitled to compensation.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 12, 2025
German court rules against OpenAI in copyright case
By Femke COLBORNE - Jan Mueller
OpenAI has faced court cases in the U.S. regarding their ChatGPT, but the challenge in Germany is the first major case of its kind in Europe, a German music rights group said.
An engineer climbs a 5G telecommunication network mast in Duesseldorf, Germany, in 2020. The European Commission is looking for ways to compel EU countries to align with the commission’s security guidance on telecommunications equipment.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2025
European Commission seeks firmer line on EU use of Huawei and ZTE equipment
By Gian Volpicelli - Jillian Deutsch
If an earlier recommendation to stop using high-risk vendors becomes a legal requirement, countries that don’t follow the rules could face penalties.
Red crabs walk across a road in Christmas Island, Australia, in October.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 7, 2025
Google planning powerful AI data center on tiny Australian outpost
By Kirsty Needham
Military experts say such a facility on the tiny Christmas Island, located 350 kilometers south of Indonesia, would be a valuable asset.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James' Palace in London on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 6, 2025
'China is going to win the AI race,' Nvidia CEO says: report
China’s access to advanced AI chips remains a flash point in its tech rivalry with the United States.
Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun introduces the Chinese smartphone maker's new electric SUV YU7 at a launch event in Beijing on May 22.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 5, 2025
The human cost of Xiaomi’s rapid pivot from smartphones to EVs
By Yuan Gao
Staff across China’s tech sector complain they spend all their time at the office, with several saying that overwork is prevalent in many top firms.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting in Busan on Thursday
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 3, 2025
China to suspend some rare earth curbs and U.S. chip firm probes
By Hadriana Lowenkron
Washington will also pause some of Trump's so-called reciprocal tariffs on China for another year and is halting plans to implement a 100% tariff on Chinese exports to the U.S.
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, poses for a photo on the sidelines of the APEC CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Nov 3, 2025
Nvidia is worth $5 trillion. Here’s what it means for the market
By Ryan Vlastelica — Subrat Patnaik
The chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution is not only the biggest company on Earth, it also may be the most influential stock in Wall Street history.

China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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