China’s export performance is clearly important for the world, and certainly Europe. To start, global inflation not only depends on commodity prices but also on China’s export prices and its own cost dynamics. Second, the European Union is the other major export machine, together with China, so developments in China’s export capacity and competitiveness are […]Continue Reading
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The state holiday is a gesture of solidarity amid a wave of anti-Asian sentiment and violence.Continue Reading
After a ban on lion and dragon dance was lifted around 2000, the art form has gone through a renaissance, led by performers from within and beyond the ethnic Chinese community.Continue Reading
The so-called misplaced decade has now worked out to three. What was wrong, asks Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: Air India has been fined 3 million Indian rupees (US$37,000) for its handling of an unruly passenger on one of its flights in November, India’s aviation regulator said on Friday (Jan 20). The licence of the pilot-in-command on the New York-New Delhi flight, where the incident took place,Continue Reading
For a few hundred dollars, clients can rent a date to accompany them to their Chinese New Year gatherings.Continue Reading
Three decades on from the nationwide uprising in Myanmar in 1988, the country has been shaken by another whirlwind of contention against military rule. Yet this time it has widened into a revolutionary uproar, which has not abated since the army seized control — again — in February 2021. Almost two years after General Min Aung […]Continue Reading
China has released a revised COVID-19 death count that includes those dying from other underlying diseases besides respiratory failure.Continue Reading
With so many headwinds zooming Vietnam’s way, now seems an incredibly inopportune moment for Hanoi to carry out a major political shakeup. That’s precisely the dilemma global investors faced this week as pro-market President Nguyen Xuan Phuc suddenly resigned. Government officials claim that the unparalleled purge led by Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong was […]Continue Reading