Strongman leaders around the world are using the coronavirus crisis to stifle journalists, a leading press freedom watchdog has warned, as it bemoaned a missed opportunity to highlight the severity of …
Starbucks brings Beyond Meat to China with new plant-based lunch menu
The world’s biggest coffee chain has reopened most of its stores in China, where the outbreak appears to be slowing, and is banking on a slew of new plant-based food and beverage offerings to pull in …
This crisis has taught us the true cost of doing business with China
With their commodity exports plummeting amid the global economic crash, debtors to China in Africa and Asia may soon be faced with a horrible choice: Impoverish their people to pa …
China fish farmers harvest troubled waters with floating villages
Fishermen like Zhu Chunfu have hauled their living from the seas off the Chinese province of Fujian for generations, but what happens when over-harvesting causes fish stocks to collapse? In the case …
Hong Kong using Covid-19 crisis as ‘golden opportunity’ for crackdown, says arrested leader
Lee Cheuk Yan says recent arrests help ensure potential candidates cannot run in upcoming elections …
Hong Kong reports no new coronavirus cases for first time in weeks
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. For the first time in nearly seven weeks, Hong Kong reported no new cases of coronavirus Monday as health …
China is using the pandemic as cover for more repression in Hong Kong
IN NEARLY 40 years of advocating for democracy in Hong Kong, Martin Lee had never been arrested. That was no doubt due to his unyielding adherence to peaceful means of protest. It also reflected Hong …
Hong Kong unemployment rate hits highest in more than nine years
Hong Kong’s unemployment rate rose to the highest in more than nine years in the first quarter as theealt a sharp shock to an economy already in recession. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate in …
Taiwan’s success against coronavirus cushions economy
As economists rewrite their forecasts to reflect the doom created by the coronavirus pandemic, one country has come off relatively lightly. Taiwan has managed to contain the outbreak better than its …
Hong Kong embraces its rights – for the rest of us
The April 18 arrest of 15 leading pro-democracy activists only attests to the weakness of China’s attempts to ignore basic rights like rule of law.