Tag: Asia Technonomics
Why inflation in China is nowhere near as high as in the West
China has a stable currency Soldiers in Beijing: The Chinese population hardly has to worry about rising prices. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf China seems to live in a parallel world when…
Twelve-hour shifts allowed – This is how Apple is turning India’s labor law upside down
Asia Technonomics In the weekly column we take turns writing about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Bangkok India’s labor law is notorious for not being particularly…
Asia is setting standards in digital payments and Germany is watching
store in Bangkok In Thailand, many locals use their smartphones when shopping and pay by QR code. (Photo: Bloomberg) Bombay If you are a foreign tourist on holiday in Thailand…
Asia Technonomics: How Japan Plans Disaster Response
Tokyo main station S-Bahn and U-Bahn pillars are provided with additional layers of concrete and steel jackets to make them more resilient. (Photo: dpa) Tokyo On the horizon of Japan’s…
Vietnam’s richest man is following in Elon Musk’s footsteps
Vinfast VF6 The company only offers electric SUVs. (Photo: IMAGO/ZUMA Wire) Vietnam’s richest man is following in Elon Musk’s footsteps, that much seems certain. All that remains to be seen…
Singapore no longer wants cryptocurrencies – but the blockchain
Bangkok The crypto world slides from one crisis to the next. And a city-state in Southeast Asia often plays a crucial role. The financial metropolis of Singapore was the headquarters…
China wants to buy chip companies in Germany
In Germany, a debate has broken out about takeovers of German companies in the semiconductor industry by Chinese investors. On Wednesday, the Federal Ministry of Economics prohibited two sales to…
WeChat users face “digital death” after protests
WeChat Thanks to artificial intelligence, social media giant and app operator Tencent can automatically censor images and text messages in real time. (Photo: imago images/Kyodo News) Beijing In China, “you…
Asia Technonomics: Depression & Co.
Asia Technonomics In the weekly column we take turns writing about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) I still have an hour until the interview appointment, but…
Toyota: Interchangeable Hardware – This is how Toyota cars should be usable longer
To a hammer everything looks like a nail, to an IT professional like James Kuffner everything looks like a computer. At Google, the US expert on artificial intelligence began to…
Toyota: Interchangeable Hardware – This is how Toyota cars should be usable longer
To a hammer everything looks like a nail, to an IT professional like James Kuffner everything looks like a computer. At Google, the US expert on artificial intelligence began to…
Japan launches its first own model
Tokyo Quantum computers are considered to be the next big breakthrough: they can solve computing problems in seconds that traditional computers would take years to solve. Until now, it seemed…
Japan launches its first own model
Tokyo Quantum computers are considered to be the next big breakthrough: they can solve computing problems in seconds that traditional computers would take years to solve. Until now, it seemed…
Where Beijing is more modern than Berlin – and where not
Berlin It’s a shock when I go shopping in Germany again for the first time in three years. With card or cash? the saleswoman asks me. With a card, I…
Where Beijing is more modern than Berlin – and where not
Berlin It’s a shock when I go shopping in Germany again for the first time in three years. With card or cash? the saleswoman asks me. With a card, I…
India wants to ban China’s tech companies
Bangkok India’s social media influencers live in their own world. Instead of distributing their viral short videos via the globally booming Tiktok platform, they upload their material to apps that…
Why Toyota is getting through the chip and Covid crisis better
Tokyo Looking at the world rankings of car manufacturers must hurt Volkswagen. By 2020, the Wolfsburg-based company was able to hold the prestigious title of the largest volume manufacturer for…
In Singapore, that’s better than it sounds
Bangkok Singapore residents don’t even need extravagant taste to shell out a small fortune for their vehicle. For a modest Toyota Corolla, residents of the Southeast Asian city-state have to…
How Chinese and American companies are building satellites instead of cars
Asia Technonomics In the weekly column we take turns writing about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Beijing A few years ago, when an employee of the…
China relies on battery changing stations for electromobility
Asia Technonomics In the weekly column we take turns writing about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Beijing From a distance, the large gray boxes in a…