MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Tag: Chine
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Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:27 UTC
US/China “candid” trade talks, but no breakthrough; next meeting in September in Washington
U.S. and Chinese negotiators ended a brief round of trade talks on Wednesday with little sign of progress and agreed to meet again in September, prolonging an uneasy truce in a year-long trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
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Saturday, November 4th 2017 - 09:48 UTC
Chinese outbound tourism boom, but hyper sensitive to bad news
The boom in Chinese outbound travel is set to keep on going, according to data from ForwardKeys, which helps forecast future travel by analyzing around 17 million flight booking transactions a day.
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Thursday, July 9th 2015 - 05:58 UTC
China markets' volatility slide spreading to the rest of Asia
Mainland Chinese shares continued to head lower on Thursday, leading the rest of Asia down as concerns over the market's steep slide spread. The benchmark Shanghai Composite was down 3.6% to 3,380.31 points despite aggressive measures by regulators such as banning big investors from selling stocks to boost the flagging market.
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Thursday, February 19th 2015 - 00:01 UTC
China celebrates 30 years of first research station in Antarctica
China is preparing to mark 30 years of polar expeditions, when on 20 February 1985 opened its first permanent research station in Antarctica, The Great Wall on King George Island. Since then China has continued to advance and is now planning the fifth permanent station.
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Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 01:49 UTC
China reports further cases of A (H7N9) flu; scientists confirm mutation of the virus
As China’s Health and Family Planning Commission notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an additional four cases of human infection with influenza A(H7N9), scientists revealed that the genetic sequence data on the deadly strain of bird flu previously unknown in people show the virus has already acquired some mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic.
