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Chinese action film 'Raging Fire' hits North American big screen

Chinese action film Raging Fire opened Friday in a limited theatrical release in North America.The film is being released by Well Go USA Entertainment with English subtitles in approximately 60 select

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Two 'Detective Chinatown' films get Japan release dates

Chinese tentpole blockbuster Detective Chinatown 2 will be released in Japan on Nov. 12 after the third film in the franchise received positive reviews.The second movie from the Detective Chinatown se

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

Although older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics, they’re quite underserved when it comes to consumer tech.The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5 billion b

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Aug. 07 - Aug. 13)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Biden administration

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Pakistan accuses U.S. of using it only to clean up mess in Afghanistan

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused the United States of seeing his country as useful only in the context of the "mess" it is leaving behind in Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting.Washingt

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CGTN Sports Talk: Take the contract or gamble your NBA future?

CGTN Sports Talk EP90 missed offers.mp3 00:00 It's one of the biggest ironies of this year's NBA free agency market – Dennis Schroder joined the Boston Celtics on a one-year, $5.9

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New York City’s enterprise tech startups could be heading for a superheated exit wave

We lied when we said that The Exchange was done covering 2021 venture capital performance. Yesterday, we dug into preliminary Q3 data for the Chinese startup market. This morning, we’re looking back a

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Peer into the eyes of Cyberdog

When someone mentioned to me that Xiaomi was launching its own “robot dog,” my mind immediately went to Sony’s Aibo. And honestly, it would have been difficult to be more wrong. Now that the news has

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China's Tesla rival Li Auto makes HK debut, considers A-shares listing

A Li One electric sport utility vehicle on display at a Li Auto showroom in Shanghai, east China, August 11, 2021. /VCGChinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Li Auto, a ri

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Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding

Earlier this year, Reddit raised $250 million, bringing the 16-year-old site up to around $800 million in total funding. Today, it announced plans for an even more massive windfall, with a Series F le

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Hochul prepares for spotlight as Cuomo steps aside

Kathy Hochul, a western New York Democrat unfamiliar to many people in the state even after six years as its lieutenant governor, was set to begin reintroducing herself

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Chart of the Day: Why is the U.S. the world's No. 1 COVID-19 spreader?

The United States has not only failed to contain the coronavirus but also "exported the virus outside its borders, making it a veritable 'proliferator,'" said a report jointly released by three Chine

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Analysis: Andrew Cuomo's fall serves as a warning for other governors whose flaws are magnified in the Covid spotlight

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fall from grace -- unthinkable a year ago -- serves as a warning for other governors caught in a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic: The crisis ha

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Lordstown will deliver its Endurance truck to “select early customers” early next year

The beleaguered EV startup Lordstown Motors is on track to begin production of its flagship electric truck Endurance, but only select customers will begin to receive vehicles early next year, executiv

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Regulations can define the best places to build and invest

Market timing — how relevant an idea is to the current state and direction of a market — is the most important factor in determining the durability of that idea.Several inputs inform market timing: Th

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Austin transplant Geoff Lewis wants to pop Silicon Valley’s ‘self-referential’ bubble

Austin has made headlines over the past year for a number of reasons: It’s home to Oracle’s new headquarters. Tesla is building a massive gigafactory in the Texas capital. And people, mostly tech work

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Joby Aviation makes its public trading debut on the NYSE

Joby Aviation is now public, twelve years after JoeBen Benvirt founded the company at his ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains. The air taxi developer began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wedn