The battle to supply 1.4 billion people with fresh fruit and vegetables is taking China’s e-commerce companies into the country’s hinterlands, where they are attempting to revolutionize centuries-old … ( read original story …)
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Action key to reviving China-US relations
Key conversations have taken place between Beijing and Washington since Joe Biden took office as US president a month ago, and observers have voiced cautious optimism over relations. They said … ( read original story…
China Tightens Rules For Banks On Internet Lending
China’s bank regulator is tightening restrictions on internet loans made by commercial banks and looking more into online lenders, like Ant Group, in general. ( read original story …)
China stock traders abandon ‘bubble stocks’ amid PBOC liquidity signals as reflation bets gain momentum
Some of China’s stock market darlings have fallen out of favour after markets reopened last week and the central bank drained excess cash from the system. Is this just a blip, or are there more…
Border tensions: funds from China down to a third of 2019
Overall private equity and venture capital (PE-VC) investment in Indian companies increased to $39.6 billion in 2020 from $36.4 billion in the previous year. ( read original story …)
Citigroup Executive Pulls James Bond Stunts to Woo China’s Rich
A man in a tuxedo sits at a mountaintop bar. His phone buzzes and he springs into action, stepping into ski boots and racing down the slopes. He is Buckley, Darren Buckley, head of consumer…
DBA at PolyU offers best in business education
The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme offered by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was the first of its kind in Asia and, marking its 25th anniversary this year, is … ( read original…
Britain to challenge China at U.N. over access to Xinjiang
Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region. British Foreign Secretary Dominic … ( read original…
Jake Sullivan criticizes China’s transparency on COVID-19 origin, but declines to stand by US intelligence on it
Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticized China for blocking data on the origins of COVID-19, but declined to stand by declassified U.S. intelligence released at the end of the Trump … ( read original…
UK to call for UN probe of Uighur camps in China’s Xinjiang province
The UK foreign secretary wants UN investigators to be given urgent access to Uighur camps in Xinjiang as he warned that human rights abuses in the Chinese province are taking place on an “industrial ……
Deeper and deeper into debt
The prospect of sinking deeper into debt sounds scary even for an ordinary household. More so for a country, as excessive debt can force the government to cut back on social expenditures meant to ……
Scientists slam China’s ‘implausibly’ slow investigation of Covid-19 as WHO panel ‘has to recommend contact tracing of patient zero and wet market suppliers’
A to-be-published World Health Organisation report will recommend contact tracing Wuhan’s ‘patient zero’ as well as wet market’s supply chain to search for the origins of Covid-19 in China. ( read original story …)
Why Beijing Loves Biden and Paris
The U.S. rejoins a climate pact that gives China a free carbon ride. ( read original story …)
