Signs of ‘serial acceleration’ in Hong Kong despite economic downturn in 2022: UBP UBB told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Thursday that Hong Kong’s economy is “in a position to return to expansion” this year. “We’re seeing signs of a cascading acceleration in January. So that’s good news,” said Carlos Casanova, chief economist for Asia … Read more
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government on Tuesday accused Washington of pursuing “technological dominance,” as the United States began to ratchet up pressure on tech giant Huawei. By blocking access to US suppliers. Biden administration He stopped approving license renewals for some US companies that were selling key components to the Chinese company, according to … Read more
After the poor performance of stocks and bonds in 2022, Wall Street is looking outside the United States for growth in 2023. Emerging markets, which include countries such as China, India, Brazil and others, are among the most important areas in which money managers invest in the hope of seeing gains that outpace the United … Read more
Jade Gao’s photo. Video Danny Chu, Michael Zhang, Yan Zhao, Riley Zhang As Covid-19 tears apart China’s massive population, sickening millions of people and fueling drug shortages, many are turning to age-old traditional medicines to battle the aches and pains of the virus. President Xi Jinping has promoted traditional Chinese medicine since the start of … Read more
China left the main interest rates for one-year and five-year loans unchanged The People’s Bank of China left the 1-year and 5-year loan prime rates unchanged, broadly in line with expectations. The 1-year LPR stood at 3.65% while the 5-year LPR stood at 4.3%, both unchanged since August 2022. The Chinese yuan off and on … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte He said on Tuesday that his country plans to “join” efforts by the United States and Germany to train and arm Ukraine with advanced Patriot defense systems. Rutte signaled Holland’s intentions at the start of a meeting at the White House with President Joe Biden. The Dutch … Read more
China on Saturday recorded nearly 60,000 deaths in people who contracted COVID-19 since early December, providing hard numbers for an unprecedented rise that was evident in overwhelmed hospitals. packed crematoriums, Even as the government released little data on the state of the epidemic for weeks. Those numbers may still understate the extent of losses, though … Read more
a a group of Chinese Researchers claim they can crack a widely used encryption scheme using an existing quantum computer, creating a potential boon for surveillance and a crisis for data protection. It was authored by more than twenty researchers from seven research institutions in China paper Describes a method using a 372-kilobyte computer to … Read more
Workers press wash the NASA logo on the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, May 19, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] At their meeting on Friday, US President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are expected to step up joint US-Japanese operations in outer space, including helping Japanese astronauts land on … Read more
Chinese embassies stopped issuing new visas to South Koreans and Japanese on Tuesday in an apparent response to the COVID-19 measures these countries recently imposed on travelers from China. It was not clear whether China would extend the visa suspension to other countries that have mandated virus testing on passengers from China after the COVID-19 … Read more
