Asian markets and oil prices mostly fell Monday with a fresh Covid flare-up in Shanghai fanning fears of another economically painful lockdown in China’s biggest city. The news came after a …
Monthly Archives For July 2022
Amid Hunter’s ongoing scandals, Biden is going soft on China
It took a certain bloodless chutzpah for the president to place his scandal-ridden son front and center at a White House function last week.
China, climate change and COVID-19: What could be on the agenda as Pacific leaders meet
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will get the chance to make his pitch for Australia’s new era of relations with the Pacific in person when Pacific island leaders meet this week.
Oil falls on recession jitters, China COVID curbs
MELBOURNE: Oil prices fell around $1 on Monday in volatile trade, reversing some gains from the previous session, as worries about a recession and China’s COVID-19 curbs hitting demand outweighed …
Asian Stocks Down as New COVID-19 Outbreak in China Triggers Lockdown Fears
Asia Pacific stocks were down on Monday morning as a new wave of COVID-19 outbreak in China exacerbated overarching worries about the global economic outlook. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 0.94% by 11:02 …
HKSAR gov’t streamlines testing services for growing Shenzhen-bound travellers
With the quotas for Shenzhen’s quarantine hotels increased to 2,000 per day earlier and compassionate quotas been added for application by specific groups, the number of travellers departing for …
China Tech Stocks Fall After Beijing Fines Alibaba, Tencent
By Yifan Wang Shares of Chinese tech giants fell in Hong Kong on Monday, after Beijing fined some of the country’s largest internet companies for failing …
China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back
Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash …
China Probably Won’t ‘Take Over’ The Moon, Despite What The NASA Administrator Says
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently expressed concerns over China’s aims in space, and in particular, that China would, in some way, claim ownership over the Moon and stop other countries from …
White-shirted group attacks protesters at China banking scandal demonstration
Victims of what could prove one of the country’s worst financial scandals had gathered in Henan province to demand their frozen deposits be returned.
China factories are feeling some heat as U.S., Europe demand slows
Spot ocean freight rates between China and major U.S. and European markets are falling as consumer demand retreats. Goods demand is “normalizing” leading to a significant slowdown in global growth and …
China’s Anhui reports 9 confirmed, 30 asymptomatic local COVID-19 cases
East China’s Anhui Province reported nine locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 30 local asymptomatic carriers on Sunday, the provincial health commission said Monday. All the new confirmed …
Novel coronavirus identified from patients with pneumonia in Wuhan, China [Classics Series]
This study summary is an excerpt from the book 2 Minute Medicine’s The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark Trials 1. According to an investigation by a rapid response team, the Wuhan …
