Rescue workers help a miner as he is brought to the surface at the Hushan gold mine after the January 10 explosion trapped workers underground, in Qixia, Shandong province, China January 24, 2021. ( read…
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China pushes fringe theories on pandemic origins, virus
Chinese state media have played up questions about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could be lethal to the very old. A government spokesperson suggests the coronavirus could have emerged from … ( read original…
Why Jack Ma Is Not China’s Top Billionaire
China’s billionaire rankings seem as stable as hydrogen. In 2017, Hui Ka Yan, founder of real estate developer China Evergrande Group, was the nation’s richest man. That throne was claimed by Alibaba … ( read…
China’s Love of TikTok-Style Apps Powers $5 Billion IPO
Kuaishou Technology has its eyes on the world’s biggest initial public offering in more than a year, seeking to raise about $5 billion from a Hong Kong share sale. ( read original story …)
China says coronavirus traces found in vaccination sites, but not infectious
China has found harmless traces of the novel coronavirus in some COVID-19 inoculation sites potentially linked to vaccine liquid, its disease control centre said. Samples taken from tables, walls, … ( read original story …)
Contentious cruising: China’s Paracel Islands tourism is about more than travel
After 11 months’ suspension due to the pandemic, China’s cruise ships have set sail again. Two Chinese cruise ships are running from the port of Sanya to the Paracel Islands, an archipelago in the ……
TikTok rival Kuaishou to raise up to $6.3bn in Hong Kong IPO
Chinese livestreaming and short video group Kuaishou is set to raise up to $6.3bn in a Hong Kong initial public offering in a test of investor appetite for China’s tech sector as it faces growing…
Coronavirus live news: locked down city in China faces food shortages; global cases near 100m
Benjamin Netanyahu says ‘we are hermetically sealing the country’; world nears 100m cases; residents in Chinese city of Tonghua complain of food shortages … ( read original story …)
China’s Paracel Islands tourism is about more than travel
After 11 months’ suspension due to the pandemic, China’s cruise ships have set sail again. Two Chinese cruise ships are running from the port of Sanya to the Paracel Islands, an archipelago in the ……
Major cities to pioneer China’s digital currency electronic payment trials ahead of 2021 launch
The expansion of the DCEP testing to larger cities could mark the final phase before the official launch. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has made tremendous progress in developing a central bank … (…
China’s Kuaishou Aims to Raise up to $5.42 Billion in Hong Kong IPO
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese online video company Kuaishou Technology is aiming to raise $4.95 billion to $5.42 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) that will be the largest in Hong Kong for ……
U.S. -China Trade Tensions Will Persist Under Biden: TD Bank Economist
With the new Biden administration, certainly you’re going to have the same complaints about the trading relationship with China as the previous administration did” … ( read original story …)
Kuaishou Seeks $5.4 Billion in Biggest Tech IPO Since Uber
Kuaishou Technology, the main rival to ByteDance Ltd. in China, is seeking to raise as much as $5.4 billion in Hong Kong in what would be the world’s biggest internet initial public offering since ……
