Pacific island nations are turning to China-led agencies to plug funding gaps in their pandemic-ravaged budgets after exhausting financing options from traditional western partners, stoking fears the … ( read original story …)
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China was largest recipient of FDI in 2020: Report
China was the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak spread across the world during the course of the year, with the Chinese economy having brought in $163 … (…
11 miners rescued in China after being trapped for 2 weeks after explosion
Chinese state television showed miners being hauled up one by one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness. ( read original story …)
What does Beijing’s current silence over Britain’s citizenship offer to Hongkongers mean for the fate of BN(O)?
However China strikes back, pragmatism should prevail to allow Sino-British relations to survive the row, even if the BN(O) arrangement doesn’t. ( read original story …)
China Passes U.S. As No. 1 Destination For Foreign Investment As Coronavirus Upends Global Economy
As the world struggled to contain the coronavirus crisis, foreign direct investment in the United States plummeted 49% in 2020 while investment in China rose 4%, making China the largest recipient of … ( read…
China Overtakes U.S. as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment
New investments by overseas businesses into the U.S., which for decades held the No. 1 spot, fell 49% in 2020, according to U.N. figures released Sunday, as the country struggled to curb the spread of…
Wuhan, China, marks a year since it entered lockdown as Ground Zero of coronavirus epidemic
China’s new mystery illness The anniversary of the lockdown Saturday comes as more contagious variants of the coronavirus spread and efforts to vaccinate people against COVID-19 have been frustrated … ( read original story …)
11 Miners Rescued In China After 2 Weeks Trapped Below Ground
The workers became trapped on Jan. 10 following an unexplained explosion at a gold mine in the eastern province of Shandong. One miner has already died and another 10 remain missing. ( read original story…
Eleven rescued from gold mine in China after 2 weeks underground
Eleven gold miners trapped underground for two weeks have been rescued in east China’s Shandong Province on Sunday. ( read original story …)
Global report: Covid variant overwhelms state in Brazil, as China fights new cluster
New Zealand reports first community case in over two months; Dutch police make curfew arrests … ( read original story …)
Shenzhen announces ban, penalty on property cheats as homebuyers try new tricks to profit from red-hot market
Shenzhen’s local government will slap a three-year ban on buyers who use false information on home purchases to stamp out cheats, two days after Shanghai authorities took draconian steps to stop … ( read original…
China Sees Fall in New COVID-19 Cases Amid Strict Local Lockdowns
BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported 80 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, mostly in the northeast where some residents complained they were short of food amid an ongoing local lockdowns, down from … ( read original…
China Sends Warplanes to Taiwan Strait in a Show of Force to Biden
The exercises, which included 13 warplanes on Saturday and 15 on Sunday, were the biggest so far this year and the first under the new U.S. administration. ( read original story …)
