China’s Social Credit System

9.41pm BST 21:41 Jobs report sends stocks to record close A late PS: On Wall Street, the S&P 500 index has closed at a record high for the seventh straight day following today’s strong jobs report. The blue-chip index of US stocks scaled new heights to finish 32 points higher…

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The WTA and ATP tours both canceled tennis tournaments scheduled in China and Japan later this year — although the women’s circuit said its WTA Finals are “still under discussion.” The WTA said it had to scrap plans for events in Asia that typically follow the…

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR New Zealand|PoliticsUpdated 1 Jul, 2021 09:41 PM4 minutes to read 'He calls me a friend and I think he sort of means that.' John Key. Photo / File By Guyon Espiner, RNZ Many politicians in the West see China's President Xi Jinping…

Not so long ago, the Communist Party of China—which celebrates its hundredth anniversary this week—believed in the power of eclectic influences. In 1980, the Party’s propaganda chiefs approved the first broadcast of an American television series in the People’s Republic of China: “Man from Atlantis,” which featured Patrick Duffy, with…

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping will lead centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party in Tiananmen Square on Thursday, pulling on history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of China´s -- and his own -- irresistible rise. At 8 am local time (0000 GMT), above the giant portrait of…

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping will lead centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party in Tiananmen Square on Thursday, pulling on history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of China´s -- and his own -- irresistible rise. At 8 am local time (0000 GMT), above the giant portrait of…

Hubei Province in China has picked Ping An Smart City, a technology company under the Ping An Group, to assist in building its one-stop public health emergency management platform. The company specifically won the bid for the public health emergency command system project under the Hubei Provincial Healthcare Big Data…

During an all-hands meeting on June 17, ByteDance’s newly-appointed CEO Liang Rubo unveiled results of an internal survey regarding the company’s so-called ‘big week/small week’ policy, a type of scheduling that requires employees to work one Sunday every two weeks, with double pay on the extra workday. The company-wide poll…

Source: Weibo The one-stop international logistics online service platform YunQuNa announced that it has landed a new round of financing led by CITIC Capital, followed by Xianghe Capital and its shareholders. The overall financing in its D1 round adds up to 150 million US dollars, setting a new record for…

Digital reconstruction of the new Mesozoic bird fossil skeleton (scale bar: 10 mm). Credit: Min Wang Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a 120-million-year-old partial fossil skeleton of a tiny extinct bird that fits in the palm of…