Tag: China

• Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 05:24 UTC

  China calls for de-escalation in Myanmar and “it's time for dialogue”

  

  China called on Wednesday in the UN Security Council for a “de-escalation” in the crisis in Myanmar, where the junta has pursued a violent crackdown against peaceful anti-coup demonstrators.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Chinese foreign trade booming in the first two months of 2021

  

  China's total goods imports and exports expanded 32.2% year on year to 5.44 trillion Yuan (some US$ 838.16 billion) in the first two months of 2021, sustaining growth momentum in previous months, official data showed. Exports jumped 50.1% while imports rose 14.5% in Yuan terms, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  Inflation in China falls 0,2% in February; pork prices drop 14,9% year on year

  

  China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, fell 0.2% in February from a year earlier, paving the way for China's steady economic recovery in the post-COVID era as the price trend kept stable, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Finland turned down Chinese Polar Institute offer to lease an Arctic airport

  

  The city of Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland turned down an offer made in January 2018 by China’s state-funded Polar Research Institute to buy or lease the city’s airport, after it informed the Finnish Armed Forces. But the matter is only now being made public.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  British regulators fined Chinese state CGTN €260,000 for breaching UK broadcast code

  

  British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000, a month after having revoked its license. Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel's airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.

• Saturday, February 27th 2021 - 18:21 UTC

  Uruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19

  

  Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the day to begin distributing the vaccines, which will begin to be administered on Monday, March 1, to a small group of essential workers in different parts of the capital and the interior of the country.

• 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.