内容摘要：In April, prominent Chinese businesswoman Dong Mingzhu told shareholders in a closed-door meeting that her company, home appliance maker Gree Electric, will "never" recruit Chinese people educated overseas "because among them are spies".

In April, prominent Chinese businesswoman Dong Mingzhu told shareholders in a closed-door meeting that her company, home appliance maker Gree Electric, will "never" recruit Chinese people educated overseas "because among them are spies".

It was scheduled to be operational by March 2025 and was set to be BYD's first EV plant outside of Asia.BYD, short for Build Your Dreams, is one of the world's largest EV makers. In April, it outsold Elon Musk's Tesla in Europe for the first time, according to car industry research firm Jato Dynamics.

The firm has been looking to increase is presence in Brazil, which is its largest overseas market.It first opened a factory in São Paulo in 2015, producing chassis for electric buses.Nvidia reported a huge boost to its revenues in the first quarter of the year, with sales of its chips rising more than 69% compared to the same period in 2024.

The US company's sophisticated chips have played a central role in the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.But Nvidia's stock, along with share prices of fellow chip-makers, plummeted in April after US President Donald Trump announced a wave of tariffs and tightened export restrictions.

Analysts say its strong set of results have "eased concerns" around tariffs - the future of which are uncertain after they were

Wall Street stocks rose in early trading Thursday after aChile is the world's second-largest exporter of farmed salmon, and the biggest supplier to the US. In the south of the country a dispute continues over the large number of salmon farms that are located in supposedly protected areas.

The port city of Puerto Montt, more than 1,000km (600 miles) south of Chile's capital Santiago, is at the heart of the country's farmed Atlantic salmon industry.At a processing facility on the outskirts of town workers kitted out in white suits, hairnets, facemasks, and blue plastic gloves and boots prepare fresh and smoked salmon for export to the US and Japan.

In a spacious meeting room, Fracisco Lobos, the chief corporate officer for the plant's owner – salmon-exporter Multi X – explains how farming the fish has transformed the south of Chile."Salmon's been part of this region's industrial revolution," he says. "There used to be a lot of poverty in the region, and now many people earn more than in other parts of Chile.