China’s Social Credit System

(Source: Pixabay) Every weekday from his home in the northern suburbs to his job in the southeast of Shanghai and back, Zhihang Wu spends three to four hours trekking through the most concentrated metropolitan area in China.  “Four years,” Wu said. “It’s extremely miserable.” In China, however, Wu is far…

China’s southwestern megacity of Chongqing has ordered a crackdown on breaches of mine safety following last week’s deaths of 23 workers in one of the country’s worst recent mining disastersByThe Associated PressDecember 7, 2020, 3:33 AM• 2 min readBEIJING -- China’s southwestern megacity of Chongqing has ordered a crackdown on…

Images by Photo by Lucas Schifres, Matt Cardy and Getty ImagesChina has become the second nation to plant a flag on the Moon, according to photographs released by the country’s space agency and captured during the Chang'e-5 lunar sample mission.The images were reportedly taken by a camera on the Chang'e-5 space…

Will you get a good deal? Perhaps. Screenshot by ZDNet On the more turgid days, I practice booking flights. I go through all the motions of booking a trip to Lisbon in April, only to stop myself just in time. Who knows what the world will look like then? Who…

A new study says one preexisting medical condition that is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 can also reduce the risk of infection from the novel coronavirus. Researchers from Israel found that asthma patients are 30% less likely to contract the illness. But asthma is included as a risk factor…

Nikk Mitchell is a Kenyan born Canadian who has lived in China for over a decade. Nikk originally built a name for himself in the Virtual Reality (VR) industry by launching the first VR community website in China, oculus-china.com, which was eventually purchased by Facebook in 2014. In 2017, Nikk…

By AFP     2 hours ago in World The US intelligence chief on Thursday branded China as "the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War II," as Washington clamped down hard on travel visas for members of the Chinese Communist Party.US Director of National Intelligence John…

Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou at her home in Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo: AP Huawei Technologies CFO reportedly has so far resisted proposal because she believes she has done nothing wrong Meng facing charges of bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran Topic |   Meng Wanzhou Published: 8:46am,…

Five years after being assailed by News Corp and the Coalition for being too hard on China, Labor is now deemed too soft on China — while the Coalition's complete reversal on hugging the panda is ignored.(Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)Here's a good example of something that fits that badly overused term…

China and US take up 82% of world’s unicorn count The 2020 list of the top 500 global unicorn companies was released, with China and the United States accounting for 81.8%. The number and valuation of Chinese companies still ranks first in the world, at 217 and US$937.69 billion respectively.…