China’s Social Credit System

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis will create 21 new cardinals on Saturday (Sept. 30), solidifying his own priorities and signaling his hopes for his successor’s at a consistory called to coincide with next month’s Synod on Synodality. Consistories, the gathering of church leaders where cardinals’ red hats are awarded,…

There’s a reverential hush from the respectful crowd as Pakistan’s Sadia Iqbal opens the bowling to Bangladesh’s Shathi Rani in the Asian Games women’s bronze medal match in Hangzhou. The sound of leather on willow echoes around the purpose-built cricket ground, which until recently was full of sunflowers. The atmosphere…

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Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin is running out of options (Getty Images) With China’s government rolling out measures to bail out the country’s property sector, China Evergrande Group may have knocked out any rebound in investor confidence with a pair of announcements this weekend which could see the former number two…

Apex Legends Mobile was one of the most anticipated mobile games after it was first announced back in 2019. The game was eventually released worldwide in 2022, however, barely a year later, the game was taken down by EA amidst a larger shift away from mobile games by the dev…

Please try another search Published Sep 21, 2023 01:21AM ET Updated Sep 21, 2023 06:15AM ET © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask is seen inside the Shanghai Stock Exchange building, as the country is hit by a new coronavirus outbreak, at the Pudong financial district in…

Korean businesses launched fewer new companies in China in the first six months this year than in Japan for the first time in 33 years.  This seems to be the result of China's slow economic recovery and President Xi Jinping's authoritarian rule that makes investors feel insecure. According to the…

Initially, Trinidad saw China as a hotbed for social unrest — Mao’s Little Red Book was included on a government list of banned titles after a series of black power riots in 1970. But the two established relations four years later during a general thaw in relations with the P.R.C.…

Last Updated: September 19, 2023, 15:28 IST Taipei, Taiwan China’s sabre-rattling around Taiwan has increased and it has ramped up its war drills around the nation-state. (Image: Reuters) China has restarted its sabre-rattling around the island it claims to reunify, if required by force.Dozens of Chinese warplanes were detected around…

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Beijing in October for talks with China's Xi Jinping, the Kremlin's chief's first known trip abroad since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against him. Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, said that the West's attempt to contain…