China’s Social Credit System

New Delhi: Is the Omicron sub-variant BF.7, which is causing the current COVID-19 surge in China spreading faster in India than earlier variants, as the officially-driven hype on television channels suggests? And if it is, how long has it been prevalent? And why is it that the Union health ministry’s…

Amid a spike in Covid cases in some countries, India on Saturday made RT-PCR tests mandatory for passengers coming from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand. Speaking to news agency ANI, India's health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said "The RT-PCR test will be mandatory for international arrivals from China,…

KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit is likely to trade higher against the US dollar next week, between the 4.41 and 4.43 level, with traders keeping a keen eye on China and the movement of oil prices, said an analyst. SPI Asset Management managing director Stephen Innes expects the domestic unit to…

/ Shows / The World This Week Issued on: 23/12/2022 - 19:10 43:35 THE WORLD IN 2022 © FRANCE 24 After Covid came war in Europe. 2022 will be remembered as the year that Vladimir Putin surprised even his own army with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. François Picard's panel weighs…

Beijing CNN  —  For much of the pandemic, images of overflowing hospitals and busy funeral homes from the United States have featured heavily on China’s state-controlled television, where the deaths of over a million Americans from Covid is depicted as a gross failing of Western democracy. Now, as an unprecedented…

Welcome to WWW: What We're Watching, Sixth Tone's new column looking at the best, the most viral, or just what's obsessing us on the Chinese internet. It is 10 o’clock at night as I stare at my computer screen, trying to write this article in my otherwise empty seventh-floor apartment…

Beijing's stance on COVID is swinging from one extreme to the other. The latest: Some cities are now letting people go back to work even if they have mild cases — a sharp contrast from the restrictive (and at times life-threatening) measures that had been in place over the past…

Three cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7 have been detected in India so far. This is the same strain causing a major surge in China's Covid cases currently.  As of now, two cases have been reported in Gujarat and one in Odisha, PTI news agency reported.  The first case was reported back…

HONG KONG, Dec 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - China has become a headache for Western executives. But uprooting supply chains and rejecting the buying power of 1.4 billion people is hard. The good news is that the dilemma need not require drastic action from U.S. and European chief executives, since local…

The Labor government is not only agreeing with Coalition-era policies but promising to pursue the necessary elements to balance and deter China better and faster than their predecessors. For example, Defence Minister Richard Marles criticised the previous government for being too slow to develop and acquire the capabilities identified in…