Chinese authorities will ease share financing rules for certain real estate-related firms, fuelling hopes of more measures to aid a sector, whose outlook remains bleak due to a mortgage boycott, COVID …
Monthly Archives For October 2022
China mulls future of ‘zero-COVID’ policy
As the world moves to a post-pandemic lifestyle, many across China have resigned themselves to lining up several times a week for COVID-19 tests, restrictions on their travels to other regions, and …
Yuan Falls to Lowest Since 2008 Global Crisis, Despite State Bank Support
China’s yuan fell on Friday to its weakest level against the dollar since the global financial crisis of 2008, despite attempts by major state-owned banks to stabilise the market. Sources told Reuters …
Mathebula’s SARB logic fails to account for success of China’s Reserve Bank
Professor Joseph Stiglitz said in a recent speech at the Indian Reserve Bank that less independent central banks had done better than all these so-called independent ones.
Lee Nerison: Lift tariffs on imports from China to help Wisconsin farmers, manufacturers
The 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin was determined by less than a single percentage point — only a slightly smaller margin than the one that gave Tony Evers the keys to the Governor’s Mansion …
China International Import Expo opens Chinese markets to the world
The fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) will be held in Shanghai from Nov. 5 to 10 as scheduled. This year’s CIIE, as a higher-level and more professional event to be joined by more …
Using blockchain to grow your start-up
Blockchain could give your start-up the confidence customers are looking for when it comes to making digital transactions. Here’s how.
Singapore ETF link to Shenzhen to debut next month
Singapore is to get a first exchange-traded fund giving investors exposure to Chinese tech stocks via a similar vehicle in Shenzhen. The ETF created by Singapore’s UOB bank will list in the city-state …
EU Leaders Seek United Front on China Dependency
European Union leaders expressed increasing concern on Friday about economic reliance on China, mindful of the gas dependency built up with Russia that Moscow has exploited, and said they needed a …
Not like China: Hong Kong reportedly wants to legalize crypto trading
A city and special administrative region of China, Hong Kong is willing to distinguish its crypto regulation approach from the blanket crypto ban in mainland China. The government of Hong Kong is …
China deletes reports of 14-year-old girl’s death in COVID quarantine facility in Ruzhou
Videos appearing to show the teen died in a quarantine center without medical attention were scrubbed from the internet as Communist leaders gathered in Beijing.
China locks down parts of Xi’an as Covid-19 restrictions ripple
China locked down parts of the central metropolis of Xi’an, confining some of the city’s 13 million people to their homes for at least a week, and other major hubs are rolling out virus restrictions…
Under Xi, China wants absolute security. It’s making the world nervous.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s speech to the party congress underscored how much Beijing’s ambition of global leadership now depends on total security.
