Facial recognition and virtual reality video streaming are among the technologies which will be deployed at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, China Unicom has announced after outlining their plan… ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For August 2018
Luxury brands target younger customers
More than four months after French fashion house Christian Dior became the first luxury brand to have an official account in China on the short-video app Douyin, it had attracted less than 40,000 foll… (…
Why China needs more babies to save its aging population
China needs babies to fix a problem of its own creation … but it’s been so dramatic that it’s created all kinds of social problems along the way,” Cai told Global News by phone. “The…
Exclusive: China central bank bars some offshore lending in latest move to support yuan
The move comes as nervous global financial markets wait to see how much further China will allow the yuan to fall, after it weakened against the dollar for nine straight weeks, reviving memories of it……
China, U.S. to hold lower-level trade talks in late August
News of the meeting gave a lift to the yuan and helped cap losses in China’s stock markets. The world’s two largest economies have been locked in escalating rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs since the sta……
China rebuffs Philippines president’s South China Sea rebuke
BEIJING (Reuters) – China rebuffed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for Beijing to rethink its conduct in the South China Sea on Thursday, saying China had the right to react to foreign shi… ( read…
Exclusive: China central bank bans some offshore yuan deposits and lending via FTZ scheme – sources
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank has restricted commercial banks from using some interbank accounts to deposit or lend yuan offshore through free trade zone schemes, two sources with direct k… ( read original story…
China’s solar giant GCL to make electric car move in new ‘eco-town’
JURONG, China (Reuters) – China’s leading solar equipment manufacturer GCL is planning a move into the electric vehicle sector, aiming to make use of its expertise in energy to gain a vital competitiv… ( read…
China Mobile Hong Kong, China Mobile International and China Taiping Insurance Group’s subsidiaries jointly signed a strategic cooperation agreement
China Taiping Insurance (HK), Taiping Financial Holdings and China Taiping Life Insurance (HK) are the China Taiping subsidiaries signing the agreement HONG KONG, Aug. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — On the … ( read original story…
China, U.S. to hold next round of trade talks in late August
Having made little progress in the previous meetings, the White House said on Aug. 3 that the United States is open to further talks with China on how to resolve the festering trade dispute. News…
Asian stocks slide as investors fret over China’s economy
consumer spending and retail sales in China were all slower than expected. But there was encouraging news in Beijing’s announcement that it is sending a sending a trade envoy to Washington, renewing e… ( read…
Brands must get the basics right in China
SINGAPORE: Western brands needs to make sure they get the basics right to find success in China –including the bureaucratic elements – and to avoid common pitfalls, according to a China marketing expe… ( read…
How WeChat became China’s everyday mobile app
Many people outside China either still haven’t heard of WeChat or they think it’s the country’s equivalent of popular messaging service WhatsApp or social media giant Facebook. For many people in Chin… ( read original…
