Gulf of Mexico vs. Gulf of America: How digital maps display disputed names

28 February 2025 at 06:00

After U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in January, some digital maps quickly made the change, at least for...

Chinese Temu sellers use fake U.S. postage labels to boost their profits

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By: Viola Zhou

11 February 2025 at 06:00

Some Chinese Temu merchants are padding their profits by using counterfeit postage labels to trick the U.S. Postal Service into delivering packages for free. Posts on Chinese social media openly...

"High postage costs eat into the razor thin margins of small e-commerce shippers.

DeepSeek’s rise shows why China’s top AI talent is skipping Silicon Valley

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By: Viola Zhou

5 February 2025 at 06:00

At the end of his internship at Nvidia in 2023, Zizheng Pan, a young artificial-intelligence researcher from China, faced a pivotal decision: stay in Silicon Valley with the world’s leading...

Engineers at DeepSeek have built a generative AI model for far less than competitors.

U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users

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By: Kinling Lo and Viola Zhou

14 January 2025 at 17:02

American high school student Venus Rios sparked a flurry of chatter when she posted this week on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, writing in Chinese characters. “Hi Chinese netizens! I...

Foxconn stops sending Chinese workers to India iPhone factories

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By: Selina Cheng and Viola Zhou

10 January 2025 at 06:00

Foxconn is halting new work rotations for its Chinese employees at its Apple iPhone factories in India, and sending Taiwanese workers instead, according to five people familiar with Foxconn’s operations...

Employees test mobile phones on an assembly line in the mobile phone plant of Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt., a unit of Foxconn Technology Co., in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India, on Friday, July 12, 2019.

The most surprising tech champions of 2024

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By: Viola Zhou， Lam Le， Daniela Dib， Damilare Dosunmu and Ananya Bhattacharya

6 December 2024 at 06:00

Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based...

How 2024’s tech trends changed our lives

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By: Lam Le， Damilare Dosunmu and Viola Zhou

2 December 2024 at 06:00

In 2024, Rest of World covered some of the biggest shifts in the tech industry that have changed lives around the world: the rise of AI, Chinese companies expanding overseas,...

The U.S. Chinese immigrants running Temu shipping centers from their homes

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By: Viola Zhou

15 November 2024 at 06:00

In Eason Lin’s cramped one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, the living room is a maze of hundreds of boxes. All of the packages will soon ship out to Americans...

TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers

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By: Viola Zhou and Peiyue Wu

14 October 2024 at 05:00

Brandy Leigh, a 50-year-old mother of six in Indiana, was looking for a career that would allow her to work from home. After raising children for most of her adult...

Virtual tomb-sweeping keeps a Chinese tradition alive

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By: Viola Zhou

30 September 2024 at 05:05

After watching Coco, the Disney-Pixar film that depicts the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico, Zhang Xin was inspired to do something to help people in China pay their...

Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops

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By: Viola Zhou

11 September 2024 at 05:00

E-commerce giant Alibaba.com is setting its sights on America’s mom-and-pop businesses. Founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 of his friends, Alibaba.com became an e-commerce behemoth that connects suppliers...

President of Alibaba Kuo Zhang in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Thursday September 5th 2024.

Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops

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By: Viola Zhou

11 September 2024 at 05:00

E-commerce giant Alibaba.com is setting its sights on America’s mom-and-pop businesses. Founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 of his friends, Alibaba.com became an e-commerce behemoth that connects suppliers...

Teens are making thousands by debating Trump vs. Harris on TikTok

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By: Viola Zhou

22 August 2024 at 05:00

On the afternoon of August 19, Democrat Liam Keyes entered a TikTok battle. Against a blue background, the 19-year-old lashed out at his Republican opponent, fellow TikToker “Jackson,” who donned...

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