China’s mortgage boycott quietly regroups as construction idles

BEIJING: Two months since many Chinese homeowners stopped repaying mortgage loans to protest stalled construction on their properties, a lack of progress in more sites today threatens to intensify the boycott, regardless of assurances from authorities. The particular mortgage protest became a rare act associated with public disobedience within China,Continue Reading

Why scams pack punch

There has been no shortage of complaints about economic scams in recent years, ranging from selling non-existent items to promising to double the money pertaining to prospective investors very quickly.Continue Reading

For Donald Trump, information has always been power

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Ever since the FBI came out of Mar-a-Lago last month with box after box of documents, some of them highly sensitive and classified, questions have wafted over the criminal investigation: Why did former President Donald Trump sneak off with the stash to begin […]

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The amazing and unstoppable collapsing yen

TOKYO – There’s something surreal about the debate at Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters over whether to jump into markets to support the yen. Japan’s central bank faces the most intense pressure in more than two decades to intervene in currency trading, but unlike previous pressure campaigns, the BOJ isn’t being prodded to weaken the yen […]

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Anti-invasion campaigner: Time to step on the gas

A prominent Ukrainian activist has slammed the “absurd” actions of the EU whereby a partial embargo on Russian oil has done little to stem the tide of aggression that has devastated her homeland. With war continuing to rage six months after Russian tanks rolled into the Donbas region, Svitlana Romanko, director of Razom We Stand, […]

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