In a world of Covid travel bans, the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank has found an unusual way of keeping tabs on major development projects in places like India and Turkey that staff can’t visit: …
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Alibaba Cloud pushes new transmission tech to help broadcasters live-stream the Beijing Winter Olympics to a global audience
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding said it introduced a cloud-based transmission technology for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, enabling broadcasters to live-stream the games to billions …
Norwegian skier misses out on gold medal at Beijing Olympics after ‘silly mistake’ in Nordic combined
Norwegian skier Jarl Magnus Riiber made a “silly mistake” that cost him an Olympic gold medal in Nordic combined.
Bickering between Scott Morrison and Labor over who is tougher on China ONLY benefits Beijing and there is no policy difference anyway, former spy chief warns
Dennis Richardson, a former ASIO director and Australian ambassador to the US, said both parties had the same policy towards the Asian superpower.
China’s yuan firms to three-week high on stronger fixing
China’s yuan firmed to a more than three-week high on Thursday after the central bank set a stronger daily fixing, as easing expectations of aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve caused a pull …
Bickering between Scott Morrison and Labor over who is tougher on China benefits Beijing
Dennis Richardson, a former ASIO director and Australian ambassador to the US, said both parties had the same policy towards the Asian superpower.
The next financial crisis is coming, and it will be stamped ‘made in China’
far more than in the financial crisis. One country stands out as having accumulated more debt in a short period of time than any other – China – and it now poses the greatest risk…
China Is Showing Off the Digital Yuan at the Olympics. Can the U.S. Compete?
(Bloomberg Businessweek) –China is competing for more than just medals at the … “Suddenly the central banks of the world and especially the finance ministries of the world just lost their minds and …
G20 finance leaders to debate inflation, fallout from tighter policy
TOKYO/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Finance leaders of the world’s top 20 … consisting of Washington and its allies but also rivals China and Russia, can make policy coordination hard, said former Bank …
Canada men’s hockey team crashes out in Beijing quarterfinals loss to Sweden
Hockey Canada didn’t have the horses in Beijing. In a contest void of meaningful offence, Sweden outlasted Canada in the quarterfinals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, winning 2-0 to advance to the …
Short track shutout for US at Beijing Olympics
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) BEIJING (AP) — Oh no, it was a short track shutout … a must-pass Senate panel rejected a bipartisan deal. On Tuesday, the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee …
Slovak youth hockey team erupts as country defeats U.S. to advance in Beijing Games
Few things are as thrilling as an underdog story on the Olympic stage, as we were once again reminded on Wednesday. Slovakia’s men’s hockey team defeated the United States 3-2 in a tense …
China inflation: Beijing on ‘alert’ for rising commodity costs despite easing consumer, factory-gate prices
Inflation concerns are unlikely to hold back the [People’s Bank of China] from more policy loosening measures … and had to battle its worst energy crisis in decades, prompting Beijing to liberalise …