China’s Social Credit System

A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said today, almost a year after details of an "unknown viral pneumonia" surfaced in the central China city. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was sentenced at a brief…

A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," her lawyer said.Police attempt to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai…

In October, the Associated Press reported on the Trump administration’s response to what is happening within the borders of China: The deputy White House national security adviser on Friday denounced China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims, saying there was no justification for the country maintaining “concentration camps” within its borders.Last week,…

2020 has been a wild year for everybody and that means that it's been a wild year for the mobile games industry on the whole - what with it being the biggest entertainment industry in the world, etc, etc. Global pandemics, political upheaval, raging forest fires, swarms of locusts, new…

Hong Kong extended a compulsory quarantine by an extra seven days to 21 days for all visitors outside China, effective on Friday, in stepped-up efforts to prevent a new variant of the novel coronavirus from spreading.LIVE | All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesAuthorities also banned all people who have…

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Chinese authorities investigate an e-commerce giant, Google may be tightening its grip on research and VCs weigh in on the year’s biggest surprises. This is your (briefer than usual) Daily Crunch for December 24, 2020. The big story: Alibaba faces antitrust probe China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said that…

HONG KONG — China has launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba Group regulators said on Thursday, in the latest blow for Jack Ma’s e-commerce and fintech empire.The probe is part of an accelerating crackdown on anticompetitive behavior in China’s booming internet space, and the latest setback for Ma, the 56-year-old…

BEIJING: The crew of the US-owned Horizon Spirit expect to spend Christmas looking after their 240m long container ship in a southern Chinese shipyard, barred, like thousands of sailors worldwide, from going ashore due to COVID-19 restrictions.Most of the 22-member crew that left Los Angeles on Oct 22 have been confined…

China hopes to position itself as a global commodities marketplace with its launch of a new futures contract on the copper market.Copper is widely used across various industries, in particular in electrical circuits used everywhere, from real estate to vehicles and household appliances.Copper contracts already existed in China but exclusively…