Tag: China

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 21:27 UTC

  Beijing naval expansion has driven 2020 world military expenditure to a record

  

  Global military spending, driven in part by Chinese naval expansion, reached record levels in 2020 despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic contraction, a British think-tank said on Thursday.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  President Xi announces end of poverty in China, on Communist Party's 100th anniversary

  

  China's President Xi Jinping officially declared Thursday that the country has completed its “arduous task” of eradicating extreme poverty, saying 98.99 million people have been lifted out of poverty over the past eight years.

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Landmark decision from a Chinese divorce court: husband must pay his wife compensation for housework

  

  In a landmark decision, a Chinese divorce court has ordered a husband to pay his wife more than US$7,700 in compensation for the housework she performed during five years of marriage.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  UK back at Human Rights Council with a long list of targets, China, Russia, Belarus and Myanmar

  

  Britain this Monday will call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 07:39 UTC

  Beijing and its imperial aspirations face the challenge of “Feminization of Male Adolescents”

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – It seemed innocent enough at the start: just a surge in the number of boys coming to school with notes from doctors saying they were excused from playing contact sports. But pretty soon high schools all over China were having trouble finding enough willing young men to make up a football team.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 07:58 UTC

  US will keep Trump tariffs on Chinese goods, Treasury Secretary Yellen

  

  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday that US will keep tariffs imposed on Chinese goods by the Trump administration in place for now, but will evaluate how to proceed after a thorough review.

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 08:25 UTC

  Good news for Chile, copper price soaring on Chinese demand

  

  Good news for Chile. The price of the country's main export, copper, reached this week its highest international value in eight years and nine months, at US$ 3,81 the pound, according to the latest reports from the London Metal Exchange.

• Saturday, February 13th 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  WHO admits the origin of Covid-19 remains an open question and requires further study

  

  World Health Organization head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that all hypotheses on the origins of Covid-19 remain open and require further analysis and study.

• Saturday, February 13th 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  Chinese cable channel CGTN banned in Germany as a result of UK's Ofcom license sharing

  

  The Chinese cable channel CGTN no longer has permission to be broadcast in Germany, a press spokesperson for the state media authority of North Rhine-Westphalia confirmed on Friday.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  China doing its homework and ozone layer recovery back on track

  

  In recent years, scientists had been alarmed by a sudden unexplained rise in ozone attacking chemicals in the atmosphere. Higher levels of trichlorofluoromethane, also known as CFC-11, were showing up in air samples — despite being officially banned worldwide since 2010.