Hong Kong electoral reform has neither breached the Sino-British Joint Declaration nor international obligations This article originally appeared on the South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com), the …
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Fiji reef battle: judge finds China-linked developers guilty in landmark case
The case has been described as a ‘watershed’ moment that will test Fiji’s environmental laws Jona Ratu and his daughter survey the channel dug into the reef on Malolo Island by the China-linked … In…
China blasts UK for granting asylum to Hong Kong activist Nathan Law
On Thursday, Zhao Lijian, spokesman for China’s ministry of foreign affairs, said Law was a “criminal suspect wanted by the Hong Kong police”. Related: Hong Kong activists plead guilty but say …
Mubadala Said to Plan GlobalFoundries IPO at $20 Billion Value
Source: Bloomberg) The IPO market has been booming since last year … in a unique position as the industry gets sucked into the trade war and tension between China and the U.S. Most of the…
Beijing forces elite Jack Ma academy to halt new enrolments
The suspension of classes at Hupan University is the strongest indication yet that the crackdown on Jack Ma’s interests is broadening beyond his businesses © Bloomberg Share on Twitter (opens new …
China repeats call to resist ‘vaccine nationalism’, pledges to keep monetary support
TOKYO, April 9 (Reuters) – China urged the international community to resist “vaccine nationalism” and to coordinate policy to make vaccines accessible for developing countries in order to contain the …
Inside China’s quiet plan to dethrone the dollar
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is piloting a digital version of the country … yuan — making its proposed narrow price fluctuations something of an anomaly in crypto-land. On the flip side, the …
LIVE: China reports 21 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours
Breaching another record, India on Thursday reported more than 126,000 fresh coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infections in a single day, which took the active cases tally to nearly a million — 910,319, …
China reports 21 new mainland COVID-19 cases vs 24 a day earlier
BEIJING, April 9 (Reuters) – China reported 21 new COVID-19 cases on April 8, down from 24 cases a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Friday. The National Health Commission, …
Corona Fresh Hike Causes & Remedies
(COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020 – Volume 26, Number 7-July 2020 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal – CDC). It is a matter of concern that …
Hong Kong needs to play catch up with Shenzhen on green GDP accounting
I refer to the recent announcement by the Shenzhen government that it is ready to adopt an alternative metric, the green GDP or gross ecosystems product (GEP), to measure its development. It may be …
Opportunities to improve China’s biodiversity protection laws
The authors review wildlife protection laws in China and provide recommendations on how sentencing could be improved to incentivize compliance.
Scientists slam WHO-China report, demand ‘full investigation’ into COVID-19 origins
A year into a global pandemic, there has been no credible study into how it began, according to an international group of more than 20 scientists who have released an open letter blaming the Chinese…
