Asian firms turned most optimistic in the fourth quarter this year, a Thomson Reuters/INSEAD survey showed, as business activity picked up in the region and COVID-19 vaccines started rolling out in … ( read original…
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ZHA unveils a low-carbon Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum
Zaha Hadid Architects releases renderings of an energy-efficient museum slated for Guangming Science City in northwestern Shenzhen. Check out the new museum. ( read original story …)
China sobers up amid IPO bonanza, tightens rules to expel dud companies from stock exchange
“The enforcement of the new rule will raise the quality of China’s capital market by weeding out poorly run companies,” said Yi Bin, an analyst at Huaxi Securities. “Market resources will be skewed … (…
China’s state-owned pipeline giant agrees to buy Kunlun Energy assets for US$6.3 billion as consolidation gathers steam
Kunlun Energy, a PetroChina subsidiary, will sell a 60 per cent stake in a Beijing gas pipeline and a 75 per cent stake in its Dalian LNG company to PipeChina. ( read original story …)
Breakingviews – Tea bubble is set to inflate in China
Get ready for a tea comeback in China. The drink so closely associated with the country’s history has been supplanted of late in the zeitgeist and financial markets as a bitter battle for coffee ……
BTS hit Dynamite on the radio in Beijing brings hope of further thaw in China-South Korea relations after 2016 missile row
Four years after South Korea and China had a falling out over the former’s stationing of United States missiles ostensibly directed at deterring a North Korean attack, which led to a ban on Korean ……
Accused of seven murders, woman goes on trial in China after 20 years on the ru
A woman accused of killing seven people has gone on trial in eastern China after spending more than 20 years on the run. ( read original story …)
China oversees livestreaming with blockchain
Livestreaming e-commerce has taken off in China and brought various problems in its wake, which the market regulation authorities in one province are addressing with the use of blockchain technology. ( read original story …)
Mainland China reports 15 new COVID-19 cases, unchanged from day earlier
Mainland China reported 15 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 22, the same as a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Wednesday. ( read original story …)
Ezra F. Vogel, Eminent Scholar of China and Japan, Dies at 90
A longtime scholar at Harvard, Professor Vogel wrote books that helped shape how the world viewed the two ascendant economic powers. ( read original story …)
Kontoor Brands Launches the Wrangler® Brand in China
Kontoor Brands, Inc. (NYSE: KTB), a global lifestyle apparel company, with a portfolio led by two of the world’s most iconic consumer brands, Wrangler ® and Lee ®, today announced that Wrangler, a … (…
Toymaker Pop Mart on a tear: US$674 million IPO came a decade after first store opened in Beijing
From a single shop in a mall in Beijing’s Haidian district to a group with 114 outlets and 825 vending machines across China, it took Pop Mart just a decade to become the biggest toy…
U.S. Homeland Security Dept to issue China data security warning to businesses -Axios
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will issue an advisory to American businesses, warning them of data security risks associated with using communications equipment and services from … ( read original story …)