China’s Social Credit System

  Key Takeaways: In China, social commerce makes up 11.6 percent of retail e-commerce sales, totaling $186.04 billion (1.285 trillion RMB) in 2019. Chinese social media platforms are more multifunctional and have a broader purpose than their Western counterparts. The rise of a new consumer class — the affluent, sophisticated, and…

Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin has begun the countdown to defending her crown by beating qualifier Yang Zhaoxuan 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 in her first match of the year at the Abu Dhabi Open. The American top seed hit 11 aces against China's Yang to set up a second-round match against…

Website of the Year World 7 Jan, 2021 07:03 AM3 minutes to read A medical worker wearing a protective suit collects a throat swab from a local resident for coronavirus antigen rapid test. Photo / Getty Images New coronavirus cases in China's "wartime" locked down Hebei province have more than…

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has disclosed that a total of 731 NYSC Batch B members have tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the disclosure was made by the chairman, PTF on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the…

published : 6 Jan 2021 at 18:54 FILE PHOTO: A dog walks towards a fisherman sitting in a boat on the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom July 24, 2019. (Reuters) China has notified downstream neighbours it is holding back the Mekong River flow at a hydropower dam on the waterway's…

Picture source: www.mgmotor.co.in SynopsisSales of the only Chinese carmaker in India were expected to take a hit due to adverse consumer sentiment after border tension between the two countries. However, the British heritage of the MG brand ensured its sales growth. Mumbai: During a difficult year for business, MG Motor…

In an unexpected turn, the New York Stock Exchange said Monday that it no longer intends to delist China’s three major telecoms operators, a decision that was originally announced on December 31. The initial action targeted China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom as part of the Trump Administration’s move…

by Debra Werner — January 4, 2021 Chinese startup Spacety began releasing imagery captured by Hisea-1, a 185-kilogram C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, launched in December on a Long March 8 rocket. This is an image of Tennessee. Credit: Spacety SAN FRANCISCO – Chinese startup Spacety released the first images…

by Andrew Jones — January 4, 2021 A Long March 5 launches the Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission Nov. 23, 2020. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China’s main space contractor aims to conduct more than 40 orbital launches in 2021, including launching a space station module and human spaceflight missions. The…

Feature Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore said that the internet routed around censorship. But what if the net stopped being one big, connected thing? National governments are busy walling off their own sections, and in some cases changing the technologies that underpin it. What's more, they're not stopping at…