A courier firm that conquered Southeast Asia’s logistics industry and scaled globally riding the Chinese e-commerce wave is now grappling with new pressures. Broken roads, chaotic traffic, nameless alleys, and...
NANJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 26: Employees sort express parcels at automated sorting lines in a distribution center of J&T Express ahead of China's Double 11 Shopping Festival on October 26, 2024 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images)
In May, BYD’s largest car carrier arrived in Brazil with 7,300 new electric vehicles. The consignment, coupled with two other large shipments a few days later, represented the company’s biggest...
The world's largest car carrier, BYD ''Shenzhen'', loads over 7,000 BYD new energy commercial vehicles at Haitong Terminal in Taicang Port Area, Suzhou Port, and sets sail for Brazil in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province, China, on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
India is betting on Chinese technology to keep its electric-vehicle transition on track. At a time when the U.S. is erecting trade barriers to keep Chinese EV giants at bay,...
On a sweltering June day, an artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot built by Chinese firm Ubtech entertained a crowd of hundreds waiting to enter the China pavilion at the Osaka World...
Around midnight at Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor offices outside Seoul, Han Ki-bak, a chip design engineer, saw a colleague collapse after working months of grueling late nights. Stunned, Han couldn’t move. ...
It is the world’s most downloaded ride-hailing app after Uber, and inDrive’s founder and chief executive Arsen Tomsky wants to go bigger. Since its founding in Yakutsk in Siberia more...
Since the launch of DeepSeek earlier this year, everyone from talk show hosts to heads of state has had a point of view on the so-called artificial intelligence race between...
The Amazonian municipality of Caracaraí has 22,000 inhabitants and an overworked pharmacist named Samuel Andrade. Andrade arrives at work at 8 a.m. to handle hundreds of prescriptions from free government...
After conquering Africa’s phones, Transsion wants to own its roads. The Chinese company, which controls about half of Africa’s smartphone market, entered the continent’s electric vehicle race by introducing its...
Chinese and American companies have long led the costly endeavor of developing autonomous ride-hailing services. Now, robotaxi firms are taking the competition global. The Alphabet-owned Waymo, which launched the world’s...
On a weekday morning in May, the Hack Latino app issued an alert to its users: There were five Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrol vehicles on a certain avenue in...
This article is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature: The math tutor and the missing $533 million Named for its founder, Byju Raveendran, the learning app Byju’s (sometimes stylized...
The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East. Unlike Western markets, where Google, Apple, and Meta maintain separate app ecosystems with strict integration limits, in countries like the...
(This is the second of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Read the first story here.) The chip worker set off from a small coastal town...
Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights...
Chinese companies are gaining ground in the global race to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence — not just chatbots, but autonomous agents designed to handle complex tasks with...
Last month, Brazil announced it is rolling out a data ownership pilot that will allow its citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint — the first such...
Ameca, a humanoid robot, smiled and blinked at the crowd at Dubai AI Week 2025, a celebration of all things artificial intelligence. Landmark announcements marked the event, including a $545...
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(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Read the second story here.) A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat...
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