SHANGHAI (AP) — Australian and Chinese casino employees stood trial Monday on charges relating to gambling, which is illegal in mainland China, in a case that highlights the sensitivity of doing certain businesses in China.…
Monthly Archives For June 2017
China, Canada vow not to conduct cyber attacks on private sector
China and Canada have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored cyber attacks against each other aimed at stealing trade secrets or other confidential business information. The agreement was reached during talks between Canada’s…
China dangles staggering $15bn before Bawumia’s eyes
Returning from his 4-day visit to China, Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia said at a Sunday press briefing at the Jubilee lounge of the Kotoka International Airport, Ghana needs to ‘leverage its natural resources.’ Dr. Bawumia…
China’s craving for crayfish creates US$2 billion business
China’s prodigious appetite for crayfish has created a multibillion dollar business in China, large enough to provide a living for five million people. Originally imported by Japanese traders to China’s Nanjing as feed for bullfrogs…
China ready to support Ghana’s economic transformation – Chinese VP
China is prepared to partner Ghana to undertake a massive transformation of the country, Chinese Vice President, Li Yuanchao, has announced. He said China stood ready to pass on knowledge, expertise and assistance to Ghana…
China landslide: More than 90 missing as search continues
The landslide blocked a 2km (1.2-mile) stretch of a river, China’s Xinhua state news agency said. Local police said a lack of vegetation had made the landslide worse. Local officials said some 8m cubic metres…
China landslide rescuers find bodies, search for dozens of missing people
China June 25, 2017. As heavy machines removed debris and men scoured the rubble for survivors on Sunday, relatives from nearby villages sobbed as they awaited news of their loved ones. “It was as if…
GSMA Mobile IoT Initiative Takes off with Multiple Commercial Network Launches around the World
China Mobile and China Unicom have launched NB-IoT across several key cities with China Telecom launching NB-IoT networks across the country. Vodafone has also launched NB-IoT in Spain and the Netherlands. DT has launched in…
China sentences 16 from Australia’s Crown Resorts to prison
Casino gambling, the marketing of casinos and organizing overseas gambling trips involving 10 or more people are illegal in China. Eleven defendants were sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment and five defendants to 10 months, Crown…
China sentences 3 Australian Crown Resorts staff to prison
Casino gambling, the marketing of casinos and organizing overseas gambling trips involving 10 or more people are illegal in China. “The three Australians and the other defendants pleaded guilty,” the Australian Consul General in Shanghai,…
China Unicom to boost capital spending on back of fundraising by parent, says analyst
China Unicom, the world’s sixth-largest mobile network operator by subscribers, looks poised to aggressively raise capital spending this year amid mounting speculation that its parent will soon have well-heeled Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings…
China landslide: More than 100 missing as search continues
But geological experts at the site on Sunday said that the chance of finding survivors was becoming “really slim”, China’s Xinhua news agency reports. The landslide blocked a 2km (1.2-mile) stretch of a river, the…
10 confirmed dead after landslide buries scores in China
Crews searching through the rubble left by a landslide that buried a mountain village under tonnes of soil and rocks in southwestern China on Saturday found 10 bodies, but about 100 more people remained missing.…