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Ant IPO: China’s mighty financial group heads for a mega market debut
Headquartered in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, Ant was launched in 2004 by e-commerce giant Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma. Since then Alipay has become China’s dominant mobile payments business. ( read original story…
China’s mighty Ant heads for a mega market debut
Headquartered in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, Ant was launched in 2004 by e-commerce giant Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma. Since then Alipay has become China’s dominant mobile payments business. ( read original story…
Pompeo previews Trump’s China election strategy in RNC speech
President Donald Trump is the only person who can take on China, his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday — a preview of what is emerging as a…
China state-owned firms’ Jan-July profits down 30.4% y/y – finance ministry
July period fell 30.4% from a year earlier to 1.48 trillion yuan ($214.34 billion), the finance ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. ( read original story …)
Central bank plans more rate reforms to cut borrowing costs
The People’s Bank of China, the central bank, said on Tuesday that it would continue to use interest rate reforms to further lower the borrowing costs for companies and clarified that despite … ( read…
BlackBerry makes China push as the OS for Xpeng smart cars
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Beijing hospitals cleared of COVID-19 cases
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Canada presses China counterpart over detainees, Hong Kong: Ottawa
Philippe Champagne met his Chinese counterpart, state councillor Wang Yi, in Rome on Tuesday and urged Beijing to release two citizens of Canada it has detained, Ottawa said. ( read original story …)
China says it began public use of coronavirus vaccine a month ago, bypassing clinical trials
Beijing officials say the trial vaccine was rolled out for high-risk groups in late July under “urgent use” regulations. ( read original story …)
Beijing’s push for mass Covid testing in Hong Kong commits the cardinal sin of public health
Hong Kong’s leader slammed scientists who questioned the government’s universal testing scheme as an attempt to “smear” the local and Beijing governments. ( read original story …)
