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Sep 18, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Yukio Tajima |Itsuro Fujino
BEIJING/SHENZHEN -- A 10-year-old boy stabbed in Shenzhen on his way to a Japanese school has died, Japan's government said on Thursday, confirming the worst fears about an attack that has heightened anxiety across the Japanese community in China. Japan's Consulate-General in Guangzhou, which provides services in Shenzhen, announced that the boy had died early in the morning, despite emergency surgery and other attempts to save his life.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Yukio Tajima |Itsuro Fujino
BEIJING/SHENZHEN -- A knife attack on a 10-year-old boy in Shenzhen just months after a similar incident in Suzhou has heightened anxiety among the Japanese community in China. The child was stabbed by a 44-year-old man around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, according to Shenzhen authorities. The attack took place on a sidewalk about 200 meters from a Japanese school attended by the boy. The child was accompanied by a parent, who was not injured.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Itsuro Fujino
GUANGZHOU -- Huawei Technologies' new trifold smartphone, to be released Friday, is popping up on online marketplaces at more than double the list price before it even hits the market, as Chinese tech fans scramble to get their hands on the difficult-to-produce device. Preorders for the Mate XT on Huawei's homepage alone topped 5 million as of Wednesday afternoon. A sales representative at a Huawei store in Guangzhou said it would be available there no sooner than February or March.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
ft.com | Lauly Li |Cheng Ting-Fang |Katherine Creel |Ryan Mcmorrow |Eleanor Olcott |Yifan Yu | +1 more
Hello, everyone!This is Lauly, waving hello from Penang, Malaysia. It has been a very busy two weeks for me.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Itsuro Fujino
GUANGZHOU -- Chinese telecom equipment supplier Huawei Technologies' new tri-fold smartphone attracted orders from roughly 1.3 million people within seven hours after the start of reservations. The official site began accepting orders for the Mate XT at 12:08 p.m. Saturday. The product will be unveiled on Tuesday Chinese time, soon after Apple is expected to show off the iPhone 16 on Monday in the U.S.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Itsuro Fujino
GUANGZHOU -- Chinese retailer Miniso has opened its largest store in the world in Jakarta, positioning it as a flagship for the chain's Southeast Asian expansion. The new store covers 3,000 square meters and sells about 13,000 products, including Disney and Sanrio character goods. It opened in the Indonesian capital's Central Park Mall on Aug. 31.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Yuki Fujita |Itsuro Fujino
MANILA/GUANGZHOU -- Chinese smartphone vendors have been putting longtime leader Samsung Electronics on the defensive in Southeast Asia as budget-friendly phones priced at around the equivalent of $200 proliferate. Mark Manga, a 25-year-old from the Philippines' Cavite province, bought an Infinix brand phone made by Chinese manufacturer Transsion Holdings for 9,999 pesos ($178).
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Itsuro Fujino
GUANGZHOU -- DJI is rapidly expanding its agricultural-drone business by catering to young farmers in its home market of China, growing its cumulative sales 15-fold in five years to 300,000 units. Drones flying over fields to spray pesticides are an increasingly common sight in rural China. These vehicles use aerial photos to set flight paths and can avoid obstacles automatically. The latest models are equipped with two sprayers that can apply 18 liters of chemicals per minute.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Itsuro Fujino
GUANGZHOU -- China's Fashion Momentum Group (FMG) is stepping up the expansion of its Benlai casualwear brand, which has a functional edge designed to compete with Uniqlo and Gap. The group, whose Urban Revivo brand has been called China's rival to Zara, has 16 Benlai stores in China and plans to open 30 to 50 a year starting in 2025.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Itsuro Fujino
GUANGZHOU -- Traditional payments by Chinese men to their bride's family at the time of marriage have risen sharply, often reaching beyond 140,000 yuan ($19,500), a trend that could accelerate a drop in marriages among young people in China anxious about their future. Marriage registrations in China fell 18% on the year in the April-to-June quarter to 1.46 million, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
