China’s Social Credit System

Author of the article: Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka said she was concerned over the wherabouts of fellow tennis player Peng Shuai, who has not been heard from since making allegations of sexual assault against a former Chinese vice premier. Peng, one of China’s biggest sport stars, said on…

Aston Martin has revealed its first inline-six-powered model since the DB7 - a DBX reserved for the Chinese market Once upon a time, the inline-six was Aston Martin‘s go-to engine. In its post-war era, the British company used this engine configuration for DB models II through 6 and finally in…

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People line up for nucleic acid testing at a residential compound following local cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dalian, Liaoning province, China November 10, 2021. China Daily via REUTERS BEIJING, Nov 15 (Reuters) - China is battling its biggest COVID-19 outbreak caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant,…

SHANGHAI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - China's yuan hovered at a three-week high against the dollar on Monday on rising hopes for an improvement in Sino-U.S. relations, while sightly better-than-expected October activity indicators also lent support to the local currency. Traders said the main focus would be a virtual meeting between…

Local community health workers in rural China successfully treated patients with hypertension, enabling more than half to reach normal blood pressures, in a new study involving almost 34,000 patients. In the study, local health workers (known as village doctors), most of whom had minimal formal medical education and were trained…

Bitcoin › Mining Kazakhstan, being the second most popular city for Bitcoin mining, is battling a looming energy crisis as ousted Bitcoin miners seek shelter in the city to access its cheap electric supply. Juhi Mirza · November 12, 2021 at 5:00 pm UTC · 2 min read Following a…

The Weibo hashtag “EDG wins championship” received more than 3 billion reads and 4 million posts, while offline, all around the country, fans shook university dorm buildings or galloped in the streets wearing EDG’s signature black flag — or nothing at all. Others made good on “challenges” they promised to…

By STEVE HOLLAND, Reuters Published November 12, 2021 6:22am WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual summit on Monday, sources said, amid tensions over trade, human rights and military activities. Washington and Beijing have been sparring on issues from the…