China’s Social Credit System

Beijing has extended electricity restrictions to a number of factories, residential areas, and shopping centers to secure energy resources amid China’s strongest heat wave in six decades. Manufacturers such as Volkswagen, Toyota, and Foxconn have suspended operations in Sichuan, a southwestern province of 84 million people and a critical hub…

NEW DELHI: China seemed to be opening its doors finally for Indian students and other visitors as it announced on Monday an updated visa application procedure that will ease the Covid-induced visa ban. The revised policy will come into effect on August 24. India had repeatedly called upon Beijing to…

Issued on: 22/08/2022 - 17:21Modified: 22/08/2022 - 17:22 01:59 Rockets carrying chemicals used for cloud seeding are fired into the sky in Suizhou, Hubei province, China. © CCTV / AFP Video by: Sam BALL China has turned to cloud seeding in attempt to induce rainfall as it struggles with one…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Indiana’s Republican governor met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen Monday morning, following two recent high-profile visits by U.S. politicians that drew China’s ire and Chinese military drills that included firing missiles over the island. Gov. Eric Holcomb arrived Sunday evening in Taiwan for a four-day visit…

Home News Spaceflight Liftoff of a Long March 2D rocket carrying the three Yaogan 35 (04 group) satellites from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China on Aug. 19, 2022. (Image credit: OurSpace/CNSA) China launched three classified remote sensing satellites on Friday (Aug. 19), which are joining three earlier sets…

World 20 Aug, 2022 12:00 AM3 minutes to read Xiao Jianhua has not been seen in public since he was kidnapped from Four Seasons hotel in 2017. Photo / Handout A Chinese billionaire abducted from a Hong Kong hotel in 2017 was jailed for 13 years and his company was…

BEIJING, Aug. 19 -- The repair crew event in the Maters of Armored Vehicles contest of the IAG 2022 kicked off at a training base in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh Region, Russia, on August 17. Six participating teams including teams from China, Russia and Belarus competed in the contest. In the event, on…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Tech giant Huawei and China Automotive Technology and Research Center Co., Ltd. (CATARC) held a signing ceremony in Shenzhen on August 17 for a new deal to deepen cooperation between the two sides. Huang Zhiyong, the president of Huawei’s Optical Application Business,…

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area is well positioned to lead carbon reduction efforts in China as pilot carbon-trading exchange thrives, experts say...Read More

China’s one-year loan prime rate (LPR) is expected to be cut by 10 basis points from 3.7 to 3.6 per cent on Monday, while the mortgage reference rate could be cut by as much as 15 points from its current level of 4.45 per cent...Read More