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Beijing has begun another round of live-fire military exercises along the Chinese coast, which analysts say could be aimed at influencing Taiwan’s upcoming local elections.The...
Hong Kong health authorities have implemented screening measures for Russian arrivals after a laboratory worker at an anti-plague research institute in Siberia died from pneumonia,...
Federal prosecutors have charged 10 people based in China in an alleged North Korean fraud scheme that secured remote technology jobs at more than 70...
China’s central bank has granted preliminary approval to Visa, the American credit and debit card payment network, to establish a domestic card-processing business after years...
China will cut the tax rebate it pays exporters of electric cars, the regime’s Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration said on Oct. 12—three...
Huang Qifan—former mayor of the southwestern megalopolis of Chongqing who survived the major political scandal that ousted his boss—has been placed under investigation ahead of...
The U.S. State Department condemned Beijing’s “coercion and aggression” toward Taiwan’s diplomatic allies on Oct. 12 in response to Chinese sanctions against ministers from Paraguay...
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US stocks dropped to their worst day since July on Wednesday, following the latest signal that inflation is getting worse.The S&P 500 sank 1.1 per cent for a fifth loss in the six days since setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points, or 0.1 per cent, and the Nasdaq composite slid 1.9 per cent as stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry led the way lower.Stocks felt pressure from rising yields in the bond market, where worries grew after a report said US consumers had to pay prices for fuel, food and other costs of living last...
Dr Andy Xie is a Shanghai-based independent economist specialising in China and Asia, and writes, speaks and consults on global economics and financial markets.Be warned....
Published: 5:29am, 15 Oct 2026Updated: 5:32am, 15 Oct 2026SpaceX boss Elon Musk said on Wednesday that any disruptions reported by Ukraine in using the Starshield...
US stocks dropped to their worst day since July on Wednesday, following the latest signal that inflation is getting worse.The S&P 500 sank 1.1 per...
Bank of America, the second-largest US bank, failed to promptly report hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious transactions bearing signs of Chinese money-laundering networks,...
The Yemeni government has spoken with Beijing about the Houthis’ alleged attempts to utilise Chinese-made technology for weapons, a Yemeni minister said on Wednesday, as...
Published: 12:41am, 15 Oct 2026Updated: 12:58am, 15 Oct 2026Irish author Sally Rooney can no longer sell her books in the UK because of her support...
Published: 10:45pm, 14 Oct 2026Updated: 10:48pm, 14 Oct 2026Leaders of the EU’s 27 member states will instruct Brussels to “urgently” come up with new weapons...
Published: 10:20pm, 14 Oct 2026Updated: 10:25pm, 14 Oct 2026Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department has extended a scheme allowing property owners to install smart fire alarm...
Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML expects China to account for about 20 per cent of its total sales this year, after seeing shipments to the...
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