Factory prices in China rose again in February, official data showed Wednesday, as the country’s vast industrial sector recovered from a coronavirus-induced slump. ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For March 2021
Hong Kong, China stocks rebound from US$1.4 trillion sell-off with market pessimism near depth of pandemic scare
Mainland China and Hong Kong stocks regain some footing after a US$1.4 trillion sell-off left local markets near the most oversold levels last seen during the depth of the Covid-19 pandemic about a … (…
China Stock Market Overdue For Support On Wednesday
The China stock market has ended lower in four straight sessions, surrendering more than 210 points or 6.3 percent in that span. The Shanghai Composite index now sits just beneath the 3,360-point … ( read…
China’s $1.3 Trillion Stock Rout Tests Limit of Intervention
A world-beating rally in Chinese stocks has turned into the biggest rout globally, shocking investors with the severity of its reversal and evading state efforts to slow the pace of losses.In just 14 … (…
China’s new five-year blueprint to unleash opportunities for world
China’s new five-year plan, currently under review at the ongoing annual “two sessions,” has come under the spotlight as analysts expect the development blueprint of the world’s second-largest economy … ( read original story …)
COLUMN-China’s huge wheat stocks may have peaked last year as feeding rises -Braun
China’s wheat carryout in 2020-21 is set to fall for the first time in eight years, though that is not saying much given that the world’s leading grower has more than a year’s worth of…
China reports five new coronavirus cases on mainland, from eight a day earlier
China reported five new mainland COVID-19 cases on March 9, down from eight a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission said all of the new … (…
Beijing summons UK envoy Dame Caroline Wilson for defending ‘fake news’
Beijing delivered a public dressing down to the British ambassador yesterday in protest at an article she posted on Chinese social media supporting the role of a free press.The Foreign Ministry … ( read original…
Calling out Beijing’s genocide of Uighurs
Beijing is guilty of violating every single provision in the UN Genocide Convention in its abuse against the Muslim-minority Uighurs in the far-west region of Xinjiang, report a group of 50 global … ( read…
Has the risk of arbitrary detention made China unsafe to travel to for foreigners?
Jeff Wasserstrom is a self-proclaimed China specialist who is seriously considering never returning to China — at least, he says, not while President Xi Jinping is in power. ( read original story …)
China’s runaway house prices may ease as centralised land sale forces developers to curb spending spree
Developers will be forced to rethink their land buying needs as the government sets auction frequency to three times a year under the new centralised scheme. ( read original story …)
Zhihu IPO: China’s ‘giant online cafe’ struggles to find monetization model amid rapid growth
Tencent-backed Zhihu has ambitions to become much more than a Quora-like, text-based content platform as it prepares for an initial public offering in New York. ( read original story …)
US admiral says Guam needs more defenses to stop China from knocking it out of the fight with a ‘cheap shot’
Guam is not just a place that we believe that we can fight from,’ the admiral said. ‘We are going to have to fight for it.” … ( read original story …)
