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Byline: OWEN GUO Freelance writer in Toronto This week, a Chinese company took the tech world by storm. It wasn't Alibaba, Baidu or TikTok. A tech startup named DeepSeek stunned [...]

Shares in major technology companies fell sharply Monday morning after a little-known startup in China released powerful new artificial intelligence models built for cheap, Owen Guo is a freelance writer in Toronto. This week, a Chinese company took the tech world by storm. It wasn’t Alibaba, Baidu or TikTok. A tech start-up named DeepSeek [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO Toronto-based freelance writer As the Pride floats glided past exuberant onlookers on a sunny day in Vancouver, it wasn't the topless guys who looked like Calvin Klein [...]

Viewing Canadian experience as a yardstick for work competency deprives immigrants of hope and dignity; this practice is also economically myopic, Updated: November 19, 2023 Owen Guo is a freelance writer in Toronto. He is a former reporter for the New York Times in Beijing and a graduate of the University [...]

BEIJING -- Unilever brought its Rexona deodorant to China a decade ago, dreaming of a market with 2.6 billion armpits. Wages were rising, consumers were spending and the run-up to [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO BEIJING -- Unilever brought its Rexona deodorant to China a decade ago, dreaming of a market with 2.6 billion armpits. Wages were rising, consumers were spending and [...]

BEIJING -- A court in Shanghai has frozen $182 million in assets tied to the chairman of the Chinese technology company LeEco after one of its affiliates missed loan payments. [...]

BEIJING -- For six decades, Chinese leaders have tried to put in place a sweeping civil code to explain the law on some of China's most contentious issues, including property [...]

Byline: JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ and OWEN GUO BEIJING -- For six decades, Chinese leaders have tried to put in place a sweeping civil code to explain the law on some [...]

BEIJING -- He usually went there for neon-orange jars of citron tea with honey, jumbo packets of dried seaweed, and cartons of eggs that seemed to be perpetually on sale, [...]

Byline: JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ, OWEN GUO and RYAN McMORROW BEIJING -- He usually went there for neon-orange jars of citron tea with honey, jumbo packets of dried seaweed, and cartons [...]

BEIJING -- China has at least 10 White Houses, four Arcs de Triomphe, a couple of Great Sphinxes and at least one Eiffel Tower. Now a version of London's Tower [...]

BEIJING -- The Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that they had executed a farmer convicted of killing a village official after the demolition of the farmer's home, despite months of [...]

BEIJING -- Zhou Bo was a born oilman. His parents work for a state oil company in the northeastern Chinese city of Daqing, and during at least one summer break [...]

BEIJING -- A video showing an S.U.V. running over a toddler while her mother appeared distracted by her phone has prompted hand-wringing on Chinese social media about the perils of [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO and MIKE IVES BEIJING -- A video showing an S.U.V. running over a toddler while her mother appeared distracted by her phone has prompted hand-wringing on Chinese [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO BEIJING -- Hoping to please his future in-laws, Larry Li fought the snarling Beijing traffic one recent spring day to chauffeur them from the train station to [...]

BEIJING -- Hoping to please his future in-laws, Larry Li fought the snarling Beijing traffic one recent spring day to chauffeur them from the train station to his home in [...]

Byline: NEIL GOUGH and OWEN GUO LEIZHOU, China -- Mo Ping for years made his living by tending the mango and jujube trees that he grew on less than an [...]

LEIZHOU, China -- Mo Ping for years made his living by tending the mango and jujube trees that he grew on less than an acre on this tip of land [...]

BEIJING -- Chinese officials have pledged to replace school running tracks made of industrial waste that have reportedly sickened thousands of children, the latest public health scandal in a country [...]

Byline: JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ and OWEN GUO SHENYANG, China -- Not long past the break of dawn, after downing a bowl of hot porridge and dropping off his son at [...]

BEIJING -- An unusual public spat between a Chinese ex-diplomat and the top editor of a well-known tabloid newspaper has set off debate on one of the paper's favorite subjects: [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO BEIJING -- Migrant workers are the unsung heroes of China's economic miracle. Numbering more than 270 million, they abandon their impoverished farms and villages to move to [...]

BEIJING -- Migrant workers are the unsung heroes of China's economic miracle. Numbering more than 270 million, they abandon their impoverished farms and villages to move to the cities, where [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO BEIJING -- The first red alert over air pollution in the Chinese capital almost brought this city to a standstill in December, with schools shut, construction halted [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBEIJING -- The first red alert over air pollution in the Chinese capital almost brought this city to a standstill in December, with schools shut, construction halted and driving [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO BEIJING -- From his graduate student dormitory in the southern city of Guangzhou, Yin Hao works late into the night with an online network of about half [...]

BEIJING -- From his graduate student dormitory in the southern city of Guangzhou, Yin Hao works late into the night with an online network of about half a dozen other [...]

BEIJING -- Pop groups do not usually entertain audiences with songs like ''Our Dear Leader!'' and ''Do Prosper, Era of the Workers' Party.'' Yet those may be among the ditties [...]

If all proceeds as planned, the world's biggest animal cloning center will open next year in the northeastern Chinese port city of Tianjin, taking factory farming to a new level. [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO BEIJING -- In the early morning haze, Sun Jian pedaled his bicycle along a bustling ring road in Beijing, dodging buses and cars as he weaved his [...]

BEIJING -- In the early morning haze, Sun Jian peddled his bicycle along a bustling ring road in Beijing, dodging buses and cars as he weaved his way through multiple [...]

Byline: OWEN GUO BEIJING -- Mark Zuckerberg knows how to court Chinese users: During a speech over the weekend at Tsinghua University in Beijing, he filled his remarks with compliments [...]

BEIJING -- Mark Zuckerberg knows how to court Chinese users: In a speech this weekend at Tsinghua University in Beijing, he filled his remarks with compliments on the nation's history [...]

The article discusses the Chinese investment firm, State Gold Treasure, and its offering of significant returns on investments made in a real estate company building a luxury apartment complex in Shanghai, China. Topics include State Gold Treasure's decision to not release details such as the property address to investors, an increase in highly opaque investments known a wealth management products as China's economy slows, and concerns regarding the potential failure of such investment funds.

The article offers information on measures in China towards increasing the admission of students from impoverished regions into local universities, and the pushback from citizens affected Chinese cities. Topics include the protests against efforts towards expanding access to higher education, the cutthroat university admissions process of China's state-run system of higher education, and the ability of the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese President Xi Jinping to handle class conflicts.

The article discusses the Chinese banking industry's reluctance to provide loans to the country's steel industry, including the Bohai Steel company. An overview of steel companies' defaulting on loans, including in regard to the risks face by the Chinese banking industry, is provided.

The article discusses the negative impact of significantly indebted state-owned Chinese companies on the Chinese economy as of mid-January 2016.

The article examines how improving foreign relations between Russia and China have yet to yield economic benefits for towns along the two countries' borders. It profiles Chinese businesswoman Li Lihua who has purchased factories, restaurants, and land for a housing development in Blagoveshchensk, Russia near the Chinese border. Noted factors contributing to the lack of economic growth in the area include poor infrastructure, a shortage of financing, and Russia's overall economic difficulties.

The article reports that the U.S. president Donald Trump reduced steep tariffs on imports of washing machines and solar energy cells and panels on January 22, 2018 to erect the kind of trade barriers, which are necessary to protect manufacturers in the U.S.

The article discusses an investigation of the optics and reprography product manufacturer Olympus and its hiring of the catering company, Anyuan, to act as a go-between for its factory in Southern China and bribe local customs authorities. Topics include the exposure of Olympus' series of ethical lapses, a $694 million bookkeeping discrepancy, and a hidden slush fund, and Olympus' efforts to overhaul its senior management team after admitting accounting fraud in 2011.