Asia’s bishops gather

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The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) will celebrate its 50th anniversary during its general conference which kicks off in Thailand today with 270 Catholic prelates and invited guests from different countries attending.Continue Reading

New US chip ban takes tech war to dire next level

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In a major escalation of the US-China tech war, China’s memory chip sector is expected to be particularly hard hit by new export restrictions imposed by the United States, according to Chinese analysts and commentators. That bleak assessment comes after Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC), China’s top memory chipmaker, and 30 other Chinese “entities” were […]Continue Reading

UK spy chief warns China’s technology is ‘urgent problem’

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LONDON: China’s growing technological dominance “is an increasingly urgent problem” for Western countries, who must act to defend their values and influence, the director of Britain’s GCHQ spy agency warned on Tuesday (Oct 11). In a speech to the RUSI defence think-tank in London, Jeremy Fleming said “technology has becomeContinue Reading