Unilever has restored its financial targets after scrapping them last year, as recoveries in China and India helped it increase underlying sales by 3.5 per cent in the fourth quarter. The maker of … (…
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Yak politics: Tibetans’ vegetarian dilemma amid China meat boom
Former free-roaming nomads now mostly resettled in rows of sun-baked block houses in Tibet are facing a struggle for their identity, their spiritual and cultural practices – and even their stomachs. ( read original story…
Ping An Insurance faces $8 billion exposure in indebted China Fortune Land
Ping An Insurance Group Co of China said it has a total exposure of 54 billion yuan ($8.4 billion) in indebted China Fortune Land Development Co. ( read original story …)
Scott Morrison’s first call with Joe Biden covers China, Covid and climate
In the Trump era, journalists didn’t have to speculate about what a US president said to an Australian prime minister during a private phone call. Famously, the entire transcript of a fraught … ( read…
U.S. President Biden discusses China, Myanmar coup on call with Australian PM Morrison
U.S. President Joe Biden on a call with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussed how they can work together to address global and regional challenges, including dealing with China. ( read original story …)
Beijing 2022: 180 human rights groups call for Winter Olympics boycott
More than 180 organisations want countries to skip event as a way of demonstrating their opposition to China’s rights record … ( read original story …)
U.S. Signals No Plans to Boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics After Genocide Designation
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is signaling it currently has no plans to bar American athletes’ participation in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, despite mounting calls for the Games to be … ( read original…
Beijing Won’t Let America ‘Compartmentalize’ Climate Change
Biden officials’ urgency about emissions makes them likely to sacrifice more important goals. ( read original story …)
Netflix is doubling down on Asia with K-dramas and mobile-only deals. But China remains elusive
Netflix has amassed some 200 million subscribers and cemented its status as the king of streaming video. Now it’s looking to run up the score with a big push into Asia, its fastest-growing region. (…
US ‘deeply disturbed’ by reports of systematic rape in China’s Xinjiang camps
State department says ‘atrocities’ against detained Uighur and Muslim women in region must be ‘met with serious consequences’ … ( read original story …)
US-China investment flows belie geopolitical trade tensions
Instead of decoupling financially, the US and China now have one of the largest and fastest growing bilateral investment relationships in the world,” said Nicholas Borst at Seafarer Capital Partners, … ( read original story…
Coronavirus vaccine: Russia moves a step ahead of China with clinical trial data release
Developer publishes results of phase 3 trials in peer-reviewed journal, bolstering credibility of shots, experts say. ( read original story …)
No plans to bar U.S. athletes from 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after genocide designation -White House
US-OLYMPICS-2022-BEIJING-USA:No plans to bar U.S. athletes from 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after genocide designation -White House … ( read original story …)
