Tokyo reported slightly fewer cases of COVID-19 on Jan. 23 compared with the day before, but the 9,468 figure was still a record for a Sunday and about 2.3 times that of the previous week, …
Monthly Archives For January 2022
China Mobile Says Parent to Boost Stake for Up to $789 Million
China Mobile Ltd.’s parent plans to increase its stake in the wireless carrier by buying as much as 5 billion yuan ($789 million) of its Shanghai-traded shares.
China’s GDP poised to grow around 5.5% in 2022 despite uncertainty
Financial and fiscal policy easing is expected to be the new approach taken by China’s policymakers to jumpstart a significant slowdown of the world’s second largest economy, which grew impressively …
China’s cargo, container throughput see steady growth in 2021
Cargo and container throughput at China ports registered stable growth in 2021 data from the Ministry of Transport shows Last yea …
Macao gaming bill, India Republic Day, South Korea’s largest IPO
On the same day, LG Energy Solution, the world’s second-biggest electric vehicle battery maker, will list in Seoul after raising over $10 billion in South Korea’s largest-ever IPO. Get the best of our …
Beijing introduces more COVID measures as cases mount before Olympics
Beijing’s city government on Sunday introduced new measures to contain a recent outbreak of COVID-19, as China’s capital continued to report new local cases of the virus less than two weeks before it …
Beijing authorities conduct mass Covid testing as cases rise before Olympics
All residents of Fengtai district told to get nucleic acid tests as China’s capital rushes to contain Omicron outbreak …
Australian Open ejects protesters for supporting China’s Peng Shuai
The Australian Open tennis tournament has been overshadowed by protests for a second time this year after Tennis Australia ejected two spectators for wearing T-shirts in support of Chinese player Peng …
Chinese border towns see business affected by China’s zero-COVID policy | Video
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, China has kept to its zero-COVID strategy to tame the virus within its borders. However, Chinese border towns are feeling the impact of such a policy on their …
China Says Local Officials Underreported Deaths in July Flood
Local government officials underreported the number of people who died or went missing during severe flooding in central Henan province last July, China’s cabinet said, following a months-long …
UPDATE 1-China’s Beijing orders more COVID tests as cases mount before Olympics
The local government in China’s capital ordered more COVID-19 tests on Sunday as the city continued to report new local cases, less than two weeks before the start of the Winter Olympic Games. Nine …
China’s lottery sales up in 2021
China lottery ticket sales reached 37329 billion yuan about 5879 billion US dollars in 2021 up 118 percent year on year da …
Human rights in China and Cuba
True, during the Cold War, Cuba served as a bridgehead for the spread of communism throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. But that paradigm disappeared more than 30 years ago with the …
