Human rights activists on Monday (October 19) urged governments and athletes world-wide to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in China as Athens prepared to hand over the Olympic flame to Beijing in a …
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Makeshift theater in Beijing offers screenings for blind audiences
In Beijing, a rare kind of movie theater offers a unique experience to the visually impaired, usually left out by the entertainment sector. Moviegoers say the cinema allows the visually impaired to …
Russia, China hold first joint patrols in Pacific
Posted . Russian and Chinese warships held their first joint patrols in the Western part of the Pacific ocean on Oct …
China to pilot property tax scheme in some regions: State media
Analysts expect a wider pilot to first include wealthier regions in eastern and southern China. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
China is Cracking Down on Cryptocurrency and Other Countries are Taking Note
Governments worldwide have a common concern that privately operated, highly volatile digital currencies threaten their financial and monetary systems.
The rapidly changing investor calculus on China’s tech giants
As wave after wave of regulatory crackdowns have dominated China tech news in 2021, one can be excused for losing track of what is being regulated, who is doing the regulating, and what exactly the…
COVID-19: Beijing, several provinces of China continue to report spike in new cases
The spike has prompted health officials in Beijing and other provinces to step up measures like testing, isolation of communities, cancelling hotel bookings, and the use of sanitisers and masks.
China’s Heilongjiang sees foreign trade in goods rise 23.5 pct in first 9 months
Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province saw its foreign trade in goods grow by 23.5 percent year on year to 145.55 billion yuan (about 22.8 billion U.S. dollars) in the first three quarters of this …
A five-member group returning to Beijing from a driving holiday all confirmed positive for COVID-19
Beijing has begun to offer a third COVID-19 booster vaccine to people of higher risks in some neighborhoods.Photo: Xinhua …
Beijing officials praise ‘strength and heroism’ of Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam at women’s forum, but say city has ‘huge room for improvement’ on gender gap
Senior Beijing officials have hailed Hong Kong’s leader as an example of “women’s strength and heroism” in how she handled the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2019 social unrest, but cited the gender gap in …
N Korea Slams US for Supporting Taiwan in Nod to Ally China
North Korea has accused the Biden administration of raising military tensions with Pyongyang’s closest ally China through its support of Taiwan.
China’s Real Estate Bubble Started With ‘State Capitalism’
For a moment, as Chinese real estate giant Evergrande teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, it looked as though President Xi Jinping might do the unthinkable: prick the greatest real estate bubble in …
China reports highest number of Covid-19 cases in over a month
The 38 domestically transmitted cases centred on Inner Mongolia and Gansu and were the largest number seen since September 20 …
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