China’s Social Credit System

The People’s Bank of China has never been politically independent like a Western central bank, but it has nonetheless enjoyed a special status in the nation’s economic hierarchy. Now, President Xi Jinping’s shake-up of China’s financial sector is stripping that away. Earlier this week, pressured by senior leaders worried about…

Reporters Without Borders says at least 127 journalists are detained in China, as Beijing takes ever harsher line on media freedoms. At least 127 journalists – from major international news outlets to bloggers – are currently detained in China as the Chinese Communist Party continues a major crackdown on media…

Global wafer capacity investment expands to US$146 billion in 2021 The investment in the global wafer capacity will reach US$146 billion in 2021, which is 50% higher than the amount before the outbreak of epidemic and twice the amount in 2016. Chinese government seeks typical application scenarios for medical robot…

China’s Yutu 2 Rover, which was crossing a crater on the far side of the moon, spied a mysterious, cube-like structure in November as it scanned the skyline. The unidentified structure seemed to be located around 260 feet away from where the Rover traversed, which was making its way across…

THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should serve as a "fulcrum" and band together in preventing the United States and China to carry out their unilateral agenda in the South China Sea (SCS), former Interior secretary Rafael "Raffy" Alunan 3rd said on Monday. ON SOUTH CHINA SEA Rafael ‘Raffy’…

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Smog blanketed Korea on Monday blown in by warmer air from China. The Korea Meteorological Administration forecast that temperatures will rise gradually throughout the day. Morning lows across the country hovered between -5 and seven degrees Celsius on Monday, two to three degrees higher than before, rising as high as…

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday that Hong Kong must respect China's socialist system and support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in line with the country's constitution. Writing on his blog, he said he had learned more about how the One Country, Two Systems principle could be…

Oppo announced Reno7 series last week and the trio went on sale in China this Friday. There’s no official schedule for when the new models will be available globally, but it should happen early next year (leaked prices for India suggested a January launch). By that time reviews of the…

Published: 2:00pm, 4 Dec, 2021 Updated: 2:00pm, 4 Dec, 2021 Read More