Shares are mixed in Asia as China reported a variety of data that painted a complicated picture of its recovery from the pandemic … ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For March 2021
1st US ministers’ Japan visit under Biden to focus on China
business leaders and others while in Tokyo before heading to South Korea, another key ally in the region, Wednesday. China is not on Blinken’s itinerary, but he is set to meet senior Chinese officials ……
Chinese economy continues its pandemic bounce back
The strong numbers are distorted because they are compared to 2020, when most of China’s factories were in pandemic lockdown. But Monday’s slew of economic data still beat analysts’ expectations. ( read original story …)
Beijing skies turn orange as sandstorm and pollution send readings off the scale
Capital of China suffers ‘hazardous’ levels of air pollution with authorities issuing second-highest safety alert A massive sandstorm has combined with already high air pollution to turn the skies in … ( read original story…
Beijing Sees Orange as Epic Sandstorm Coats North China in Dust
(Bloomberg) — A sandstorm sweeping across much of northern China left the city in an orange fog and helped push air quality levels in the capital to the worst since 2017. Beijing’s government issued ……
Beijing hit by worst sandstorm in a decade
Hundreds of flights have been canceled after a thick shroud of sand and dust descended on the Chinese capital. ( read original story …)
Beijing issues yellow alert on sandstorms; 6 dead and 81 missing in Mongolia (Update)
Beijing was engulfed by the largest sandstorms in a decade on Monday morning, which originated in Mongolia, causing the visibility in most areas to be less than 1,000 meters and bringing the PM10 … (…
China’s factories, consumers drive recovery into 2021
Export growth hit a record pace in February while factory gate prices posted their biggest expansion since November 2018. China’s economic activity is normally distorted in the first two months … ( read original story…
Alibaba-Backed AI Startup Megvii Files for IPO in Shanghai
The eight-year-old firm gained fame in part because of China’s obsession with security, which in turn drove a nationwide video-surveillance boom. It registered a loss of 1.03 billion yuan, excluding … ( read original story…
World awaits China Covid origins report
Likeliest route – That said, the mission has produced a number of hypotheses. “There was conduit (back) from Wuhan to the provinces in south China where the closest relative viruses to SARS-CoV-2 are … (…
How China’s Devastating Microsoft Hack Puts Us All at Risk
TURBINE PANDA is linked to the 2014 OPM hack, another massive data breach, and to the case of Yanjun Xu, the State Security officer extradited to the U.S. from Belgium for attempted theft of GE…
Tasmania Police investigating spike in counterfeit bank notes
Counterfeiters trying to get fake Australian bank notes into circulation have made a major flaw as police launch an investigation into the dodgy cash. ( read original story …)
Beijing smothered by hazardous yellow smog
Beijing was cloaked by a thick yellow smog on Monday with pollution surging to hazardous levels as a sandstorm swept across China’s capital. ( read original story …)
