Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia-Pacific stocks edge higher; Alibaba shares in Hong Kong surge for a second day Hong Kong-listed shares of Chinese tech giant Alibaba surged more than 3% in Tuesday… Read More ›

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China in the News: April 13, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Former defence minister Christopher Pyne warns of potential war with China in the Indo-Pacific region The chances of a war in the Indo-Pacific region involving China are rising… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, April 12, 2021
China’s getting more flack from more sides—Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines. Vietnamese are furious with H&M for depicting maps with Vietnam-claimed islands as part of China, even though H&M did that because the Chinese told them to. The noose of perceived… Read More ›
Asia in the News: April 12, 2021
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Global digital governance can start in Asia An economic cooperation agenda should be developed around shared and common interests in digital trade facilitation.East Asia Forum33 minutes ago Monitoring… Read More ›
China in the News: April 12, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Chinese coronavirus vaccines have low effectiveness, country’s top disease control official says In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control… Read More ›
China drills deep in disputed South China Sea
China has drilled deep in the South China Sea to retrieve sediment core from the seabed, state media reported on Thursday, amid tensions over disputed waters with rival claimants Taiwan and the Philippines, as well as with the United States…. Read More ›
Asia in the News: April 11, 2021
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia’s Positive Stock Outlook Is Clouded by Chinese Selloff The allure of Asian stocks is fading after beating global peers last year.Bloomberg1 hour ago Asian companies turn to… Read More ›
China in the News: April 11, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Chinese government fines Alibaba $3.7 billion for anti-competitive behaviour Chinese regulators hit the Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, with a penalty equivalent to 4 per cent… Read More ›
Chinese Checkers in the Middle East: Play or perish
As the United States vacates some of the foreign outposts, China is moving in to fill up the vacuum at a fast pace. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s latest visit to the Middle East is an indication in that direction…. Read More ›
Asia in the News: April 10, 2021
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Women subjected to ‘racist and demeaning’ Asian fetishes on dating apps speak out Online dating for Asian women can be a minefield of “racist and demeaning” messages from… Read More ›
China in the News: April 10, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘Ridiculous’: China’s powerful rebuke to ‘hypocritical’ Aussies Chinese media has slammed the Australian government for what it has described as a hypocritical take on racism.Yahoo News Australia13 hours… Read More ›
Asia in the News: April 9, 2021
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia’s rising coronavirus cases a worry as vaccine doubts cloud campaigns Singapore (Reuters) – India, South Korea and Thailand faced mounting coronavirus infections on Thursday, undermining cautious hopes… Read More ›
China Allows People to Pay Respects at Grave of Cultural Revolution Leader Jiang Qing
Home | News | China China Allows People to Pay Respects at Grave of Cultural Revolution Leader Jiang Qing The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allowed public access to the grave of Jiang Qing, former member of the Gang… Read More ›
Asia in the News: April 8, 2021
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia shares loiter as S&P futures climb Asian share markets have lagged as US stock futures nudged to another record high after the Federal Reserve underlined its commitment… Read More ›
China in the News: April 8, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘We will respond in kind’: China’s ambassador warns Australia not to join Xinjiang sanctions Cheng Jingye hosted a media event at his residence in Canberra that included a… Read More ›
China’s Net Zero promise looks elusive as banks keep throwing cash at coal mines and power plants
On an unseasonably warm autumn day last October, the world’s largest coal-fired power plant fired up in the Anhui provincial city of Huaibei in eastern China. Sitting in an economic development zone carved out of verdant paddy fields, phase two… Read More ›
Asia in the News: April 7, 2021
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘As safe as we can’: Victoria’s hotel quarantine system to accept 106 travellers on Thursday More than 100 overseas travellers will arrive in Melbourne on Thursday and be… Read More ›
China in the News: April 7, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘Do not get involved’: China cautions Japan ahead of US-Japan summit China’s foreign minister has cautioned Japan against teaming up with the United States to counter China, ah…9News15… Read More ›
China threatening free speech in Europe
China’s retaliation against European and British lawmakers who sanctioned the communist regime for its treatment of the Uyghur minority is a test of free speech in Europe, contends Soeren Kern, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute. Beijing contends the… Read More ›
Asia in the News: April 6, 2021
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia-Pacific stocks mixed; RBA interest rate decision ahead Markets in Hong Kong are closed on Tuesday for a holiday.CNBC1 hour ago KKR raises $15bn for largest Asia fund… Read More ›
China in the News: April 6, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing’s two voices in telecommunications External Chinese government and commercial messaging on information technology (IT) speaks in one voice. Domestically, one hears… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, April 5, 2021
China looks worse and worse in the public eye. H&M closures have drawn more Western attention. Chinese ads showing a purportedly happy Xinjiang backfired among Facebook staff. The Philippines are evermore concerned about a swelling number of Chinese militia boats… Read More ›
China in the News: April 5, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australia wants to work with China to ensure peace in Indo-Pacific, says Dutton Defence Minister Peter Dutton says the federal government wants to work “collaboratively” with China to… Read More ›
China is asking the WHO to hire them to build an international system to maintain flyer data regarding vaccines for cross border travel
Out of the kindness of their heart, China has volunteered to the World Health Organization (WHO) that they would be happy to build a system used worldwide to track travelers who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. According to… Read More ›
China in the News: April 4, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s Hong Kong crackdown was decades in the making After completing negotiations to hand back Hong Kong to China, British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, recorded in her diary… Read More ›
America losing the future to China
Few Americans realize it, but their country’s dominance in high-tech innovation is now in question. This is something that Google’s former chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt, acknowledged in his recent testimony before Congress. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has stated that China… Read More ›
China in the News: April 3, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australia Is About to Join the US Sanctions Fight on China “China stop genocide of Uyghurs,” read the banners held aloft by protesters outside the Chinese consulate in… Read More ›
Chinese ‘militia’ ships spark concern after ‘swarming’ disputed South China Sea
The Philippine military said Thursday it has discovered illegally built structures on features in the Union Banks, a series of reefs in the South China Sea near where Manila says Chinese maritime militia boats have been swarming in recent weeks…. Read More ›
China in the News: April 2, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Chinese ‘militia’ ships spark concern after ‘swarming’ disputed South China Sea More than 250 Chinese vessels have been spotted near six islands and reefs in the disputed South… Read More ›
China’s secret loan contracts reveal its hold over low-income nations
Chinese lenders have used legal contracts to give them a hidden advantage over other creditors when lending to low-income countries, in a trend which threatens to undermine global debt relief efforts, according to research. Many of the contract terms were… Read More ›
China in the News: April 1, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australians flagged in Shanghai security files which shed light on China’s surveillance state and monitoring of Uyghurs The identities of more than 160 Australian citizens — including a… Read More ›
China in the News: March 31, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) The cost of speaking up against China Uyghurs abroad describe a pattern of harassment and intimidation they say is designed to silence them.BBC News1 hour ago China Escalates… Read More ›
Beijing told to brace for more heavy sandstorms
Beijing and sweeping tracts of northern China suffered dangerous levels of air pollution last weekend when another sandstorm hit the region. The capital city’s squares and skyscrapers were barely visible as the second sandstorm in a month kept people off… Read More ›
China in the News: March 30, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China pressures brands to reject reports of Xinjiang abuses China stepped up pressure on foreign shoe and clothing brands to reject reports of abuses in Xinjiang.9News2 hours ago… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, March 29, 2021
China’s adversaries face a tightly closing decision. America needs to decide whether it can keep playing the role of the world-cop with only its B-game, or if it is ready to bust out its A-game not seen since FDR. More… Read More ›
China generated over half world’s coal-fired power in 2020, study shows
China generated 53% of the world’s total coal-fired power in 2020, nine percentage points more that five years earlier, despite climate pledges and the building of hundreds of renewable energy plants, a global data study showed on Monday.Slideshow ( 3… Read More ›
China in the News: March 29, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China sanctions US, Canadian officials in escalation over Xinjiang China has announced new sanctions against US and Canadian officials in a growing political and economic feud over its… Read More ›
China’s J-16 fighter jet is flawless and much superior to the Su-30: pilot
China’s J-16 multi-role fighter jet is flawless and is much superior to other similar aircraft including, the Su-30, revealed a pilot who has experience flying it as well as other types of aircraft. The J-16 has been a frequent flyer… Read More ›
China in the News: March 28, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Iran and China sign 25-year cooperation agreement Foreign ministers from China and Iran, which are both subject to sanctions by the United States, sign a landmark 25-year cooperation… Read More ›
China rages against Western brands in Xinjiang cotton ruckus
Swedish fast-fashion giant H&M has shuttered at one of its shops in Urumqi, the capital of China’s far-west Xinjiang autonomous region, as local pressure mounts against Western criticism and sanctions against Beijing’s policies towards the region’s Muslim Uighur population. In… Read More ›
China in the News: March 27, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s Communist Party wants its citizens to know about the world’s human rights abuses. Just not its own From flexing its considerable commercial muscle with boycotts to mercilessly… Read More ›
Paraguay says Chinese vaccine offers tied to dumping Taiwan
Like many nations, Paraguay faces an uphill battle to procure coronavirus vaccines. But its quest is being complicated by fraught relations between China on one side, and Taiwan and the U.S. on the other. The Paraguayan government has been approached… Read More ›
China in the News: March 26, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Why is the West so sceptical of China’s vaccines? While China’s failure to allow its trial results to be peer-reviewed has fuelled concerns in health circles, geopolitics experts… Read More ›
Mongolians in China Face ‘Cultural Genocide’ as Language, Culture Swept Aside
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is stepping up policies in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, where protests erupted last year over plans to phase out Mongolian-medium teaching in schools, targeting the region’s ethnic Mongolians with TV shows emphasising… Read More ›
China in the News: March 25, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s ‘blatant coercion’ of Australia is a lesson for the world, says Antony Blinken Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has singled out China’s “blatant economic coercion… Read More ›
China goes ahead with more Himalayan dams despite huge risks: experts
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this month gave the green light to a massive hydroelectric power project on the Yarlung Zangbo River in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, sparking concerns over potentially catastrophic environmental effects to come. The project is… Read More ›
China in the News: March 24, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australian hay growers brace for China hit as export permits lapse amid trade tensions Farmers are under pressure to pivot to different crops amid signs hay growers could… Read More ›
Could former US president Trump leverage Russia against China?
Before Obama began his pivot to Asia to contain China, the US had been quite successful in containing Russia with Chinese assistance. China supported the UN Security Council resolutions initiated by the West to contain Russia in the Middle East…. Read More ›
Philippines says 220 Chinese maritime militia boats have encroached in South China Sea
The Philippines urged China on Sunday to recall more than 200 Chinese boats it said had been spotted at a reef in the South China Sea, saying the presence of the vessels violated its maritime rights as it claims ownership… Read More ›
China in the News: March 23, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) EU, US, UK, Canada target China officials over Uyghur abuses The European Union, Britain, Canada and the United States have launched coordinated sanctions against officials in China over… Read More ›