Breaking News: China to ‘crack down’ on cross-border gambling; warns against online betting during CNY

Mainland Chinese authorities have urged Chinese nationals who are involved in cross-border gambling activities to turn themselves in, according to a notice co-drafted by the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme

Covid 19 | WHO team in Wuhan says discussions open, meetings frank

World Health Organization investigators looking for clues into the origin of the coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said that the Chinese side has provided a high level

Taiwan opens trade office in Guyana in diplomatic effort

Taiwan has established a trade office in the South American country of Guyana, a diplomatic win for the island that has continued to lose allies in an aggressive poaching campaign

Human rights, Covid at issue one year before Beijing Olympics

Building elaborate venues for Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics is the easy part for China, just as it was for the city’s Summer Olympics in 2008. The competition venues are ready,

Hong Kong | Flower farms see their Lunar New Year sales wilted by virus

The Lunar New Year holiday is usually a busy period for flower farms in Hong Kong, which gear up to sell plum blossoms, orchids and daffodils at flower markets during

Coup a further complication for tricky Myanmar-China ties

Before Monday’s coup in Myanmar, the country’s relations with China already were complicated by Chinese investments in its infrastructure and the Myanmar military’s campaigns along their shared border. The coup deposed

Covid-19 | WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab at center of speculation

World Health Organization investigators yesterday visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one

Covid-19 | Beijing to send 10 million coronavirus vaccine doses abroad

China yesterday announced a plan to provide 10 million coronavirus vaccine doses to developing nations through the global COVAX initiative as part of its ambitious diplomatic and business efforts to

Police arrest suspects in fake Covid-19 vaccine ring

Chinese police have arrested more than 80 suspected members of a criminal group that was manufacturing and selling fake Covid-19 vaccines, including to other countries. Police in Beijing and in Jiangsu

Covid-19 | WHO team visits animal disease center in Wuhan

World Health Organization experts visited an animal disease center in the Chinese city of Wuhan yesterday as part of their investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Team member Peter

Ren Quanniu | Beijing strips license from second lawyer for HK activists

A second Chinese lawyer who represented a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist was stripped of his license yesterday as Beijing attempts to crush opposition to its tighter control over the territory. Ren

Kuaishou | Ex-Googler turns virtual gifts into a $61 billion business

In China’s popular online-streaming industry, virtual gift-giving is big. You can send your favorite live performer anything from a rose for 5 yuan (80 cents) to a space rocket for

Covid-19 | WHO team in Wuhan visits disease control centers

A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited two disease control centers yesterday that had an early hand in managing the outbreak in the central

Hong Kong | Government critic Jimmy Lai returns to court

Prominent Hong Kong democracy advocate and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai returned to court yesterday to contest an attempt by the government to keep him in jail while facing charges under

Hong Kong | Thousands flee for UK, fearing China crackdown

Cindy had a comfortable lifestyle in Hong Kong: she owned several properties with her husband, they had a good business going. But last year she made up her mind to

Covid-19 | WHO teams visit Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic yesterday visited a market known to be the food distribution center for the Chinese city of Wuhan

PMI | Manufacturing, services sectors weaken in January

An official indicator of China’s manufacturing activity weakened for a second consecutive month in January, following outbreaks of domestic COVID-19 cases that affected the operations of some industries. The purchasing managers’

Hong Kong | The brutal truth for bankers is they’re expendable

What happens to a global financial center when hundreds of thousands of residents head for the door? The jury is still out on London after its Brexit- and pandemic-inspired  Money is

WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for Covid origins study

A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan yesterday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that

Gov’t asks Indonesia to treat detained sailors fairly

China’s government called on Indonesia yesterday to treat a group of detained Chinese sailors fairly but gave no indication what their oil tanker was doing when it was found at

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