TOKYO – Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday as markets watched for tax reform developments in the U.S. and digested economic data from China. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 recouped earlier gains to end…
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China’s facial recognition advances; becomes largest video surveillance network
If you cross the street in urban China these days, chances are you’re being watched. The country has built the world’s largest video surveillance network with tens of millions of cameras, and they are now…
Beijing pressured Australian publisher into canceling book release, author says
One of Australia’s major publishers has backtracked on releasing a book detailing Chinese influence in the country — amid threats of retaliation from Beijing, the book’s author says. Clive Hamilton, a prominent Charles Sturt University…
Trump offers to mediate South China Sea feud
Unlike China, the U.S. is not a claimant to the potentially oil-rich … “I’m a very good mediator and arbitrator,” Trump said at a news conference with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in Vietnam’s capital,…
Trump offers to mediate in protracted South China Sea feud
Unlike China, the U.S. is not a claimant to the potentially oil-rich … “I’m a very good mediator and arbitrator,” Trump said at a news conference with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in Vietnam’s capital,…
Trumps offers to mediate in protracted South China Sea feud
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Xi assured him of China’s peaceful intentions…
Trump touts his dealmaking skills as solution to South China Sea dispute
“I know you’ve had a dispute for quite a while with China, if I can help in any way, I’m a very good mediator and a very good arbitrator.” “I’ve done plenty of it from…
Trump offers to mediate on South China Sea
HANOI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was prepared to mediate between claimants to the South China Sea, where five countries contest China’s sweeping claims to the busy waterway. Trump was…
Beijing has a new ship that can build artificial islands. That’s worrying some neighbors
Beijing has a new ship capable of creating artificial islands — potentially the largest of its kind in Asia — raising fears it could be deployed in the tension-laden South China Sea The world’s second-largest…
China shopping festival smashes record with $25 billion haul
Once a celebration for China’s lonely hearts, Singles’ Day has become an annual 24-hour buying frenzy that exceeds the combined sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the United States, and acts as a…
What the world’s largest shopping day says about China
I still remember growing up in communist China in the 1970s, when my mother and neighbours would use their ration tickets to buy meat at a state-run store. Very little thought went into shopping because…
North Korean man begs China not to deport wife and young son
China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a news briefing that she was unaware of details of the case. She said China consistently upholds the handling of such matters in accordance with domestic and…
China faces historic corruption battle, ruling party’s new graft buster says
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China must win its battle against corruption or face being erased by history, its new top graft buster said in an editorial on Saturday, underscoring the ruling Communist Party’s focus on eliminating…
