China’s Social Credit System

CATL Battery Production Expansion Brian Wang | February 16, 2021 | China’s CATL will spend up to 29 billion yuan ($4.49 billion) to build or upgrade domestic factories to meet growing demand. This is in addition to Contemporary Amperex Technology 2020 plans to boost capacity at a cost of up…

Ticket sales for the first four days of the Lunar New Year holiday surpassed 2019 levels to around 4.5 billion yuan Chinese studios are now making high quality and culturally relevant films, leaving little room for mediocre American movies, says US producer Published: 1:16pm, 16 Feb, 2021 Updated: 3:18pm, 16…

BentallGreenOak acquired the Avex building in Tokyo in one of Japan’s biggest office deals of 2020 North Asia proved to be the most resilient slice of the Asia Pacific region in the fourth quarter of 2020 as Japan, China and South Korea recorded a jump in real estate transactions, according…

by William D'Angelo , posted 10 hours ago / 626 Views This weekly mini-series compares the aligned launch sales of the Xbox Series X|S with its predecessor, the Xbox One.  The first week for the Xbox Series X|S is the week ending November 14, 2020, while for the Xbox One…

JOHANNESBURG - The latest figures show that nearly 1.5 million people have contracted COVID-19 in South Africa, and over 47,000 people have passed away because of the virus. Cases have continued to drop compared to over 20,000 daily, earlier this year. READ: US, WHO push China for data from early…

Samsung has been releasing two versions of most of its premium smartphones in recent years - one with a Qualcomm chipset and another one with its own Exynos chips. In the Galaxy S21 family, the chipsets in question are the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 (US&China) and Samsung's own Exynos 2100, available…

In an interesting new development in the increasingly-complicated and geopolitical/economic situation between India and China, ByteDance is reportedly now looking to sell-off its Indian TikTok assets to local rival and unicorn Glance. The report comes from Bloomberg and concerns recently-initiated high-level and still secret talks. We'll try our best to…

Home News Science & Astronomy China has released epic video footage from the country's Tianwen-1 spacecraft as it made a close approach to Mars after reaching the Red Planet this week. Tianwen-1 arrived at Mars on Wednesday (Feb. 10) and fired its engines to allow it to enter orbit around…

Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane on Friday highlighted the perils of China's mega connectivity plans like the belt and road initiative (BRI), and said the project aims to "create regional dependencies".  Speaking at Assam Rifles-United Services institution joint annual seminar, he said, "The regional security environment is characterised by…

published : 12 Feb 2021 at 10:45 BBC World News was pulled from the air in China after regulators there decided it had 'seriously' violated broadcast guidelines. BEIJING: China's broadcasting regulator has banned BBC World News, accusing it of flouting guidelines over a hard-hitting report on Beijing's treatment of the…