Even before the publishing industry in Bangladesh was struck by the pandemic, it had been infected with “the virus of faith”, as murdered author Avijit Roy called the increasing religious extremism in ... ( read original story ...)
Pinduoduo Founder Passes Alibaba’s Jack Ma As China’s Second-Richest Man
Shanghai e-commerce billionaire Colin Huang has passed Jack Ma, the main founder of China’s Internet heavyweight Alibaba Group, as China’s second-richest man, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaire ... ( read original story ...)
China Roundup: Huawei targets cars, ByteDance enters Tencent’s backyard
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we have several ... ( read original story ...)
China Blocks Poultry From Tyson Plant After Outbreak
China Customs said it will suspend imports from a Tyson Foods poultry slaughterhouse where there has been a confirmed cluster of coronavirus infections. Selina Wang reports on "." (Source: Bloomberg) ... ( read original story ...)
Countering China Is for the BIRDs | Opinion
This notion dominated the thinking of U.S. foreign policy and business since President Richard Nixon and his national security consigliere Henry Kissinger began wooing China in 1972 in order to drive ... ( read original story ...)
Companies Like Zoom Must Choose: America or China | Opinion
As U.S. protesters flocked to the streets to support racial equality, Chinese dissidents took to the wires to virtually memorialize the June 4 massacre at Tiananmen Square—an activity normally banned ... ( read original story ...)
Project Force: How powerful is China’s new navy?
In the first episode of Project Force, we explain: what does China's rapid naval expansion mean for its neighbours? ( read original story ...)
HSBC comes out fighting against ‘groundless’ rumours targeting its China business
After a series of attacks by Chinese media and netizens on HSBC's business culminating in one report suggesting it may be forced to exit the world's second-biggest economy, the bank came out swinging ... ( read original story ...)
What Helped This Asian Country To Keep COVID-19 Deaths At Zero?
Leste, also known as East Timor, has seen more than 50 days without new COVID-19 cases and has yet to report a single death, thanks in part to water initiatives designed to increase resilience to ... ( read original story ...)
Vande Bharat mission flight with 181 Indians departs from Bahrain for Thiruvananthapuram
Manama [Bahrain], June 21 (ANI): An Air India special flight under Vande Bharat Mission departed from Bahrain for Thiruvananthapuram via Kozhikode with 181 stranded Indians on Sunday. ( read original story ...)