Tag: China

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Chinese manufactory recovery for second straight month but still weaker than expected

  

  China's factories stepped up production for a second straight month in May, as the country shook off the economic torpor of the coronavirus, although the weaker-than-expected gain suggested the recovery remained fragile.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 19:44 UTC

  The wife of Chinese “rumor mongering” doctor who first warned about Covid-19, gave birth to a boy

  

  The widow of Chinese doctor and coronavirus whistleblower Dr Li Wenliang gave birth to their son on Friday, about four months after his demise, local media reported.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 13:23 UTC

  China increases protection of the pangolin to the same level as royal pandas

  

  Wildlife activists on Wednesday welcomed China's decision to remove pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, as Beijing steps up protection of the heavily-trafficked endangered mammal.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 12:52 UTC

  EU accuses Russia and China of “unprecedented” Coronavirus “infodemic”

  

  China and Russia were blamed for spewing out false and misleading online information about Covid-19 in a European Union report that seeks to stem the “unprecedented” spread of fake news amid the pandemic.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  On Tiananmen anniversary US destroyer sailed the sensitive Taiwan Strait

  

  A U.S. warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries said, on the same day as the 31st anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Trump orders tighter accounting practices of China based companies listed in US markets

  

  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned American investors against fraudulent accounting practices at China-based companies and said the Nasdaq’s recent decision to tighten listing rules for such players should be “a model” for all other exchanges around the world.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Beijing will allow more foreign carries to fly to China, following a threat from Trump

  

  China said on Thursday it will allow more foreign carriers to fly into the mainland, shortly after Washington barred Chinese passenger carriers from flying to the United States citing Beijing's restrictions on American airlines.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Helped by a weaker currency, record export of Brazilian soybean to China

  

  Brazil's May soybean exports jumped 45% on the year to reach 15.5 million tons, the second-highest monthly soy shipment ever, the latest foreign trade department data released on June first showed, with a hefty 74% of this volume bound for China.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Boeing dumped Embraer but the Brazilian plane maker has suitors from China, Russia and India

  

  Aircraft makers are circling Brazil’s Embraer weeks after Boeing ditched plans for a historic commercial aviation tie-up, people familiar with the matter said. Boeing axed plans to buy 80% of Embraer’s commercial unit in April, ending a planned move into regional jets that mirrored rival Airbus’ purchase in 2018 of a competing model developed by Canada’s Bombardier.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Trump cuts relations with the World Health Organization, “a puppet organization of China”

  

  US President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the US relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus, saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China.