China’s Social Credit System

With focus on the COVID-19 crisis, BRICS's (a grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) foreign ministers will meet on Tuesday virtually at 4 pm IST. The meeting is being hosted by India as the chair of the grouping this year. Present in the meeting with be India's External Affairs Minister…

Weekly Roundup: Billionaire Ray Dalio is a Bitcoin Hodler, Ethereum devs update community on Beacon Chain progress Amid growing regulatory uncertainty in China, Bitcoin miners have begun preparing their exit strategy from the country. While some are looking to migrate to crypto-friendly regions, others have put up their mining rigs…

Home News Spaceflight China's new space station module is about to get its first robotic visitor.  The Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on China's Hainan Island today (May 29), rising off the pad atop a Long March 7 rocket at 8:55 a.m. EDT (1255 GMT; 8:55…

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(Bloomberg) — China should take a gradual approach pulling back financing to high-emission industries in order to avoid credit risks, state bank chiefs said Saturday. Financial institutions need to support coal and steel companies to upgrade their technology to reduce emissions, even as they stop financing any further expansion of…

Updated 1 hour ago · Published on 28 May 2021 11:59PM · World Health Organisation says further studies will be needed in a range of areas, including on the early detection of cases and clusters, and the potential roles of animal markets, transmission via the food chain and the laboratory…

GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Britain are stepping up calls for the World Health Organization to take a deeper look into the possible origins of COVID-19, including a new visit to China where the first human infections were…Read More

Germany is no longer Britain’s most important import market. For the first time since modern records began, the UK imported more goods from another country: China. During the first quarter of this year, the UK spend £16.9bn on Chinese goods, a jump of 66 per cent in the last three…

Keeping you up to date on the latest novel coronavirus (Covid-19) news from around the world. FOLLOW LIVE | Covid-19 in SA: 4 623 new cases, 101 more deaths Coronavirus toll at 10:00 (GMT) Thursday Paris – The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3 500 321 people since the…

People watch a movie in a cinema in Shanghai, China, July 20, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) Action-movie star John Cena’s fulsome and abject apology for having offended China by referring in passing to Taiwan as a “country” while promoting his new movie F9 may have set a new low for cringing cravenness…