Watermelons have brought Beijing farmer Li Wanbo 300,000 yuan (about 46,200 U.S. dollars) this summer alone, a great leap from when he worked in the city proper with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan. “I…
Monthly Archives For August 2021
China’s red-hot residential property market cools amid regulations
Prices of xuequfang, homes in good school districts, in top Chinese cities like Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, are being frozen amid escalating measures to tame the red-hot property …
China Exchanges to Improve IPO Pricing on Star, ChiNext Boards
China’s stock exchanges have issued revised draft IPO listing rules that may help realize better prices by enabling offline institutional investors to bid higher on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style Star and …
Merger activity in Asia, China remains high even as regulatory uncertainty hangs over tech sector, JPMorgan says
Merger activity, in some form, is happening in all sectors in China, a big difference when compared with five years ago, according to JPMorgan’s Asia-Pacific deals co-head.
China, Pakistan Call For Recognising Taliban: Experts Warn of Future Losses, US Ire on Beijing, Islamabad
Pakistan has lobbied the international community — close allies China and Russia in particular — to garner support for a collective diplomatic engagement with the Taliban …
Live: Smart China Expo 2021 kicks off in SW China’s Chongqing
The Fourth Smart China Expo takes place from August 23 to 26 in southwest China’s Chongqing, under the theme of “Smart Technology: Empowering Economy, Enriching Life.” …
Hundreds quarantined in Shanghai as China nears 2 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses
China has administered nearly 2 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine but an outbreak of cases in Shanghai has fanned fresh concerns about the spread of the disease and forced hundreds of people into …
Beijing stops approving new permits for Lithuanian food exports to China – service
Lithuanian food producers continue to export their products to China, which has cancelled its next direct freight trains to Lithuania amid rising political tensions between Being and Vilnius, but the …
Shenzhen prices soar as home policies backfire
(MENAFN – Asia Times) Beijing’s efforts to help more people on to the property ladder has made homes in Shenzhen, China’s least affordable city for houses, in even shorter supply and more expensive.
Are cosier China-Cambodia ties a sign Beijing’s plan to set up military bases overseas is gathering steam?
Experts say China has a strategic interest in having more such bases worldwide, not just to project military power but also to safeguard its global interests.
China reports 32 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours
China reported on Sunday that there were 32 new coronavirus cases in the mainland, up from 20 a day earlier, ac …
Chinese media bluff quoting Swiss scientist over corona outbreak; Swiss embassy says scientist is ‘fake’
The Chinese media have been exposed, claiming that the stand to re-investigate the origin of the Coronavirus pandemic was accepted under US pressure. The Chinese state media made the allegations …
Construction halts after secret underground passageway linking entertainment club to kindergarten in Shenzhen sparks outrage
The entrance to the underground passage beneath the entertainment club in the kindergarten. Photo: thepaper.cn. Authorities in South China’s Shenzhen urged a construction site to …
