The earliest batch of COVID-19 tests distributed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exhibited false positive reactivity of negative controls due to flaws in assay design and …
Monthly Archives For December 2021
Japan PM will not attend Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Fumio Kishida does not say if other officials will attend and it remains unclear if he will join US-led boycott over human rights …
Washington Is Preparing for the Wrong War With China
Yet Washington may be preparing for the wrong kind of war. Defense planners appear to believe that they can win a short conflict in the Taiwan Strait merely by blunting a Chinese invasion. Chinese …
China’s ‘king of trolls,’ a newspaper editor known for being a nationalist firebrand voice for the Chinese Communist Party, is retiring
Hu Xijin said he was retiring as chief editor of the state-linked Global Times, but would keep contributing to the Communist Party’s news outreach.
China’s caution on Russia and Ukraine ‘not as far’ as Putin has gone with Taiwan issue: Professor
Angela Stent of Georgetown University says although China and Russia are “closing ranks” and backing each other up on various foreign policy tensions, there are differences in tone between their …
Supriya Lifescience IPO subscribed 19% on day 1, retail portion booked 1 time
The public issue will fetch the company Rs 700 crore, of which Rs 315 crore was raised from anchor investors on December 15, at the upper price band of Rs 274 per equity share.
China’s economy slows on worsening property market
BEIJING: China’s economy slowed further in November, dragged down by a worsening property market slump and disruptions from repeated Covid-19 outbreaks.
China’s 2022 steel demand set to dip on property policy, pandemic
China’s steel consumption will dip 0.7% on an annual basis in 2022, following an expected decline of 4.7% this year, as tougher policies for the real estate market and uncertainties linked to COVID-19 …
China Tech Stocks Head for Record Low on More Sino-U.S. Tension
A key gauge of Chinese technology stocks is on course for a record low after concerns about new U.S. sanctions on Chinese chipmakers pushed it into a fifth day of losses.
China Initiative critics decry Harvard professor’s trial
As the trial of Harvard University Professor Charles Lieber charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program got underway on Wednesday in federal court in Boston, legal experts and …
China to beef up financial support for MSMEs
China will adopt market-based measures to double down on financial support for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to support market players and cushion the new downward economic pressure, …
Hivestack Partners with China’s Tikin Media for Access to Nearly 100,000 Elevator Ad Screens
Programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) ad tech companyHivestack, has announced a partnership with Tikin Media, an elevator advertising company in China, to integrate their DOOH inventory into the …
Beijing 2022: Putin tells Xi he will attend Winter Olympics
Russian president Vladimir Putin has pledged to attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him the first major western leader to indicate his attendance. His remarks came in a video call with …
