Medical workers guide a citizen at a designated clinic in Hong Kong, south China, April 9, 2022. On Saturday, Hong Kong registered a total of 2,535 new COVID-19 infections, including 897 by nucleic …
Monthly Archives For April 2022
Beijing museum launches space-science popularization event
Students attend a livestreamed popular-science lecture given by Chinese astronauts from China’s space station Tiangong, at the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing, capital of China, March …
Human rights activists urge US to stop imports of products made with forced labour in China
Human rights activists, labour leaders and others have urged the United States to cast a wide net to stop imports of products made with forced labour in China’s Xinjiang region. The New York Times …
Roundup: Caution needed as new cases, deaths of COVID-19 continue to fall in Europe
Although the numbers of new weekly cases and deaths of COVID-19 continue to decrease in Europe since the end of March, the current high level of transmission is putting strain on testing capacity and …
China Finance with A Cup of Tea Episode 3: China’s Passive Investment
Passive investment has been booming in the global market in recent years. As market effectiveness improves, outperforming returns are increasingly difficult to achieve. Alpha retu …
How China brutalizes its people in the quest to achieve ‘COVID Zero’
Like China’s previous efforts to contain the highly infectious Omicron variant, this one too is doomed to fail, although not before extracting an enormous cost.
Crypto and NFTs: Not The Democratization of Finance
Despite its beginnings as a niche financial technology project, cryptocurrency and its byproduct, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), have evolved into a mainstream topic on the minds of many people across …
How should the U.S. handle China and Russia’s growing alliance?
China has so far been largely silent about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Is there a new coalition forming? Hal Brands is professor of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced …
China’s Covid Lockdowns Are Squeezing Manufacturers Like Apple and Tesla
Manufacturers are struggling to keep some of their China operations going as extended and widening Covid-19 lockdowns choke off supplies and clog up truck routes and ports, heaping more pressure on …
Covid-19 update: 1,183 new cases reported in SA, China still under lockdown
The United States on Saturday warned of “arbitrary” Covid-19 measures in China and said it would let some staff leave its Shanghai consulate amid a surge of infections in the locked-down megacity.
Blockchain Devices market May See a Big Move | Major Giants HTC, General Bytes, Sikur
revenue (million USD), and market share and growth rate of Blockchain Devices market in these regions, from 2017 to 2028 (forecast), covering China, USA, Europe, Japan, Korea, India, Southeast Asia & …
12th Beijing Int’l Film Festival to open on Aug. 13
The 12th Beijing International Film Festival is set to kick off on Aug. 13, organizers said Saturday. The festival this year will last until Aug. 20. Initiated in 2011, the festival aims to boost …
Lockdown Anger in Shanghai Intensifies as China Sticks to Zero-COVID Policy
26 million people have been under a strict quarantine since late last month, with residents unable to leave their homes and apartments.
