China’s Social Credit System

Getting to grips with . . . Passengers and crew feared dead after passenger jet crashes into mountains in China A passenger plane with 132 people on board has crashed in a mountainous region of southern China. The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when…

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President Joe Biden warned China it could face consequences if it gives financial and military support to Russia for its war in Ukraine. Vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute Wendy Cutler spoke to CBS News' Lana Zak about what's at stake for China. Read More

China to legislate on preschool education China will push for legislation on preschool education to provide a legal guarantee for the operation and management of such institutions, Vice-minister of Education Tian Xuejun said on Nov 30. Tian made the remarks at a news conference organized by the State Council Information…

Duke Kunshan University, a joint venture between Duke University in the US and China’s Wuhan University, has started to enroll its first class of undergraduate students. The university — based in Kunshan, Jiangsu province — will launch its inaugural bachelor’s degree program in August, according to Li Hui, assistant to…

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. PROLONGED CONFLICT A demonstrator, wrapped with a Ukrainian flag, participates in a demonstration called by 70 associations in support of Ukraine on the square of Paris’ townhall on Thursday, March 17, 2022 (March 18, 2022 in Manila), on the 22nd day of…

CONTAINING FLARE-UPS A worker wearing protective gear walks near a locked-down neighborhood after the detection of new cases of Covid-19 in the Huangpu district of Shanghai on Thursday, March 17, 2022. Just three weeks ago, China was reporting under 100 Covid cases daily, but that number has swelled past 1,000…

China has gone from reporting under 100 daily infections just three weeks ago to more than 1 000 per day for over a week.The country recorded more than 2 000 cases on Thursday.Millions of people in China are currently under stay at home orders. Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with his China's counterpart Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony following the Russian-Chinese talks on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on September 11, 2018.  Sergei Chriikov | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Two days after national security advisor…

Two years into the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, Beijing has reached out to New Delhi to revive bilateral dialogue and set the stage for the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) summit in China later this year. Beijing has proposed a series of events to kickstart the…