China’s population fell in 2022 and will continue to do so throughout the 21st century, according to the United Nations Population Division’s 2022 Revision of World Population Prospects. The data shows a sharp fall in China’s fertility rate from 1.81 births per woman in 2017 to 1.16 in 2021. This trend is based on data […]Continue Reading
CHON BURI: Two Chinese nationals, a woman and a man, are reported to have been adbucted and held for ransom in Chon Buri.Continue Reading
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey on February 6, and more than 45,000 people have died to date, and the toll is still rising. A quake of the same magnitude struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, and 8,790 people were killed in that Gorkha Earthquake. Turkey and Nepal have huge disparities in terms of economic and […]Continue Reading
The Federal Reserve faces a pivotal decision on March 22, 2023: whether to continue its aggressive fight against inflation or put it on hold. Making another big interest rate hike would risk exacerbating the global banking turmoil sparked by Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on March 10. Raising rates too little, or not at all as […]Continue Reading
Zhao Weiguo formerly headed Tsinghua Unigroup, which was one of China’s leading chipmakers.Continue Reading
BURI RAM: A 31-year-old woman whose lesbian lover had locked her inside their restaurant building and left for Udon Thani for a few days was freed by police on Monday night.Continue Reading
MANILA – “I would say, ‘Do you need to be contained? Are you expanding? Are you an expansionist power?’ To a very great extent, the United States was the champion for China’s rise. And in no way are we seeking to contain China. But we are seeking for them to play by the rules,” said […]Continue Reading
As Xi Jinping begins his unprecedented third term as president of China, he has urged his country to fight back against US-led effort to embarrass, isolate, contain and suppress his country. As a follow-up, in his first press conference, new Foreign Minister Qin Gang said he wants China to be the champion of the developing world and […]Continue Reading
TEGUCIGALPA: The US government said it “respects” Honduras’ decision to move towards establishing formal diplomatic ties with China, the Honduran Foreign Minister Enrique Reina said on Monday (Mar 20) after a meeting with US officials. Reina said Honduras’ President Xiomara Castro made “general comments” on the decision during the meetingContinue Reading
China is facilitating easier access to subsidies and more control over state-backed research for a handful of its chip companies, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday (Mar 21). Chipmakers such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), Hua Hong Semiconductor and Huawei, as well as equipment suppliers like Naura and Advanced Micro-FabricationContinue Reading