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Wency Chen
Wency Chen
Shanghai
@ChenWQ45
Reporter, Tech
Wency tells stories that explore how technologies are reshaping society, with a focus on cross-border e-commerce, AI, the supply chain and others. Before joining SCMP, Wency contributed to KrASIA, Wired, Rest of World, World of Chinese, Tech in Asia, Vice China (BIE), Harper's Bazaar, etc. She attended Columbia Journalism School.

CEO Wang Xing’s internal announcement reflects Meituan’s efforts to address mainland policymakers’ concerns over the welfare of gig workers.

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The new standard, introduced under a UN framework, is meant to guard against risks such as data leaks, model tampering and supplier non-compliance.

Alibaba is soliciting feedback from merchants about accepting China’s second-largest mobile payments network on the country’s largest e-commerce sites.

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Chinese AI app developers are increasingly eyeing international users, as the domestic market environment turns too competitive, according to industry insiders.

CapCut, a popular video-editing app with GenAI features, recorded 38.42 million downloads in July, compared with 19.81 million downloads in the same period for ChatGPT.

NetEase Cloud Music, a subsidiary of China’s second-largest video gaming company, started offering error messages in place of tunes on Monday afternoon.

Thailand authorities are tightening regulations on the bargain shopping site Temu to protect local merchants from the influx of low-priced, direct-to-consumer Chinese products, according to a media report.

Sellers on the app from China’s PDD Holdings are finding it difficult to resolve disputes over withheld earnings, which must be done outside the mainland.

Black Sesame’s listing initiative in Hong Kong would follow the successful initial public offering in June of Tencent Holdings-backed QuantumPharm.

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Hundreds of Chinese suppliers on Temu, the overseas shopping app run by PDD Holdings, staged a protest at the e-commerce giant’s office in Guangzhou over alleged unreasonable platform policies.

The recruitment comes as the Hong Kong government makes efforts to transform the city into a technology hub by leveraging the research capabilities of its top universities.

Chinese self-driving start-ups are rushing to float shares in Hong Kong and other markets, as the technology appears to be closer to the holy grail of commercial deployment.

Large language models are ‘bad at maths’ and can only predict answers based on training data, according to Zhejiang University researcher Wu Yiquan.

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