China’s Social Credit System

Commuters walk through smoke rising from steel mills located near a slum amid rain in Dhaka, Bangladesh August 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain Acquire Licensing Rights SINGAPORE, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Despite improvements in China, air pollution across the globe continues to pose the greatest external risk to human health,…

China welcomes dozens of African states to security conference as it seeks greater role in continent China is hosting defence officials from nearly 50 African countries at a security conference as Beijing seeks to expand its presence and shore up ties with the continent amid its rivalry with the United…

Biden to visit Vietnam after G20 in India for meeting with communist leader Nguyen Phu Trong US President Joe Biden will visit Vietnam on September 10 for a meeting with the leader of the ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, the White House announced on Monday. The stop in Hanoi,…

SHANGHAI : China's securities regulator approved the launch of 37 retail funds over the weekend, part of government efforts to revive a stock market struggling for lift-off in an ailing economy. The move comes on top of a slew of measures to shore up the market, including a stamp duty…

BYD Electronic plans to buy NYSE-listed Jabil Inc.’s mobile-electronics manufacturing business for nearly $2.2 billion to expand its smartphone components footprint. The acquisition will mark BYD Electronic’s 285, “expansion of the core supply chain for consumer electronics, and thus further increasing its market share and consolidating its leading position in…

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Upcoming diplomatic visits and international political events U.S. Trade Secretary Gina Raimondo will meet with senior Chinese officials and American business leaders between Aug. 27 and Aug. 30. She will hold meetings with senior P.R.C. officials and U.S. business leaders. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will overlap with Raimondo, arriving…

August 25, 2023  •  1 min read  •  By Hailey Mensik Ivy Liu This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife What companies can and cannot do as far as using AI tools in their hiring processes is becoming more clear following a landmark case settled in New York earlier this…

By Keith BradsherAugust 25, 2023 — 1.25pm China’s stock market was plunging and its currency was teetering. The head of the central bank, fielding questions at a rare news conference, said China would make it easier to get home mortgages. It was February 2016 and Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank’s…

This is the fourth piece in a series on the “Dongbei Renaissance.” The third can be read here. It is not unusual for economic disaster to stimulate a cultural revival. Take German cinema during the Weimar Republic, for example, or the neoliberalism of post-World War II Italy. China’s three northeastern…