NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian investigators have raided an Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, accusing it of evading customs duties totaling 43.9 billion rupees ($551 million), the government said Wednesday. The Enforcement Directorate, India’s financial crime investigation agency, said it sent a notice to the company seeking recovery […]
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Chinese phone brands are carrying the torch for Europe’s biggest mobile show
Next week sees Mobile World Congress return to Barcelona, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the world’s biggest mobile phone trade show, and one year after the show took place without many of its largest exhibitors in attendance. Not everyone is making a return to this […]
Chinese Government Released Amended Cybersecurity Review Measures
Monday, February 14, 2022 Recently, thirteen relevant Chinese government agencies (e.g. Cyberspace Administration of China, National Development and Reform Commission of China, China Securities Regulatory Commission, etc.) jointly released amended Cybersecurity Review Measures (the “New Measures”) to amend and supersede the prior version of such measures issued on April 13, […]
Winter Olympics: 1,000 athletes using ‘burner’ phones because of ‘scary’ Chinese surveillance tech
The mission of the International Olympic Committee includes ‘opposing any political abuse of athletes’. So, why is that more than one thousand athletes and delegates from seven countries have been advised to leave their mobile devices at home and pick up a ‘burner’ phone, before travelling to the Winter Olympics […]
US accuses Chinese tech firms, research institutes of weaponizing biotechnology, creating ‘brain-control weaponry’
The Biden administration has blacklisted and sanctioned dozens of Chinese government research institutes and private-sector tech firms, accusing them of weaponizing technology for use at home and abroad, the U.S. departments of Commerce and Treasury announced Thursday. In particular, the U.S. warned that these entities were working as part of […]