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#SouthKorea #AVs #Lidar - Korean startup Seoul Robotics serves this international need for LiDAR solutions by combining its innovative technology with its strategic relationships across the autonomous car value chain. (Korea Techdesk)

#Singapore #healthcare - New developments in artificial intelligence were showcased last Friday (Dec 11) by the National University Health System (NUHS) at the Singapore Healthcare AI Expo. (Straits Times)

#Japan #healthcare - AI-based technology for intensive care units has been unveiled at an online forum in Japan, as the number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients continues to rise. (NHK)

#Japan #steel - Major steelmakers in Japan are tapping the power of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies, in a bid to maintain their international competitiveness. (NHK)

#China #regulation - China’s government is moving to curb the power of some of its most influential internet companies. The country’s top market regulator announced Monday that it is fining Alibaba and China Literature, Tencent’s e-book spinoff, for failing to report their past acquisition deals for clearance. (TechCrunch)

#China #US #tradewar - Joe Biden’s choice of Katherine Tai as new US trade representative encapsulates the ways in which America’s trade strategies, and its approach to China in particular, will differ from those of the Trump administration. The objectives won’t change but the approach will be very different. (Sydney Morning Herald)

#China #Huawei #Xinjiang - Huawei has worked with dozens of security contractors to develop surveillance products, some of which were touted as able to identify a person’s ethnicity or to help suppress potential protests, according to company marketing documents that shed light on a little-publicized corner of one of China’s most valuable tech empires. (The Independent)

#Australia #China #tradewar - For years there have been warnings about Australia’s overreliance on the Chinese market and the potential danger posed in the event of either an economic or political meltdown. That day has arrived and it’s time for a Plan B, writes ABC business editor Ian Verrender. (ABC)

#Canada #China #Huawei - A Canadian court will hear testimony from a technical witness on Monday in the case to extradite Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States. (Reuters)

#Canada #China #US #Huawei - When Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei Technologies Co., stepped off her plane in Vancouver on December 1, 2018 for a regular stopover, little did she know that she would quickly become a piece in a much larger chess game between the Trump administration and China. (SCMP)

Carrington Malin is a UAE-based entrepreneur, marketer and writer who focuses on emerging technologies.