ZHANGJIAKOU, China, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Veteran skier Richard Wyne spends almost every day out on the snow at the Beijing Games but he is not here as an athlete or a coach. Instead, Wyne…
Monthly Archives For February 2022
Figure skating reaches for new love stories at Beijing Olympics
But some skaters at the Beijing Olympics are tiring of those same old stories. For partners who are actually couples, like Evan Bates and Madison Chock of the United States — who were to perform…
Stellantis restructures its China business to gain a foothold
The National Business Daily reported that PSA is in talks with Dongfeng to give the French control of the Peugeot brand’s operations in China, while the Chinese will have a larger say in how to…
Chinese mainland reports 26 new local COVID-19 cases
A citizen receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Yinchuan, capital city of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 2, 2022. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua) BEIJING, Feb. 14 …
China reports 26 new local, 58 imported COVID-19 cases
China on Sunday reported 26 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Monday. Of the new local infections, 18 were reported in Liaoning, six in Guangxi …
Suzhou in E.China suspends schools, medical services after reporting 4 positive COVID-19 cases
Suzhou in East China’s Jiangsu Province, home to over 10 million people and known for various historical tourist sites, has on Monday suspended schools and parts of its medical services after four …
China’s COVID policy credited with stability of supply chain
Bloomberg article: Zero-tolerance approach ensures goods keep flowing ‘to rest of world’ Global supply chain problems and inflation could be much worse if China, the world’s factory, hadn’t taken a …
How China’s digital yuan will be used at Beijing’s Winter Olympics
Darrell Duffie, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor of finance, joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita to discuss how the digital yuan will be implemented at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics …
China cracks down on technosphere as Beijing seeks to create “common prosperity”
China’s legislative onslaught began in November 2020 when the initial public offering (IPO) of billionaire Jack Ma’s fintech giant Ant Group was suspended. Ant had hoped to raise up to US$37 billion …
Top 10 Chinese jewelry brands in 2022
The top 70 brands largely fall in retail business, the downstream of the jewelry industry, covering jewelry such as gold, jade, diamond, silver, pearl, color jewel and platinum. According to Hurun, …
China conditionally OKs COVID-19 drug
China’s top drug regulator has given conditional approval for Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, making it the first oral pill for the disease approved in the country. The drug can be used to treat …
Day 10 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Jackson almost missed competing in the 500m at the Olympics after she had slipped during qualifying trials, but her teammate and friend Brittany Bowe gave up her own spot to ensure the world No. 1…
China’s tech giants push toward an $8 trillion metaverse opportunity — one that will be highly regulated
China’s technology giants from Tencent to Alibaba and ByteDance are investing in the metaverse, a market that could be worth $8 trillion in the future, according to Morgan Stanley. While U.S. firms …
