Australia on Sunday called for an “independent international” investigation into China’s management of the coronavirus outbreak and the origin of the pandemic, joining the U.S. in scrutinizing China’s …
US urges China to lift restrictions on rights lawyer
The United States called Monday on China to lift restrictions on the movements of prominent lawyer Wang Quanzhang and urged the release of other detained rights advocates. The State Department called …
MGM expected to hold on to Macau business
Bernstein Research thinks MGM China (OTCPK:MCHVF, OTCPK:MCHVY) has funds to operate for up to fifteen months even under the worst pandemic scenarios.The firm notes MGM China had HK$3.0B in cash on ha …
Macau govt to request IVS expanded to more cities: CE
Macau’s Chief Executive, Ho Iat Seng (pictured), says the city’s government will ask China’s central government to increase the number of cities covered by the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS), once the …
Mongolia, close to China, far away from Covid-19
Mongolia, a land that borders China, surprisingly didn’t see even a single COVID-19 fatality since the outbreak of the deadly disease. With barely 31 confirmed cases so far, there are no reports of …
Thousands of Myanmar Migrant Workers Return from China into Quarantine
MANDALAY—Nearly 4,000 Myanmar migrant workers who were working in China have flooded into border checkpoints in Kachin State since last Thursday, where they were transferred to government facilities …
Turkey’s Coronavirus Crisis Grows as Infections Exceed China’s
Turkey has now recorded the highest number of cases outside of the United States and Europe. Can it juggle the crisis and a crumbling economy?
Asian shares fall back on weak oil prices, Japan trade data
Shares are mostly lower in Asia as oil prices fell back and Japan’s trade data for March was weaker than expected …
‘Go to China if you want communism’: Anti-quarantine protester clashes with people in scrubs
Go to China if you want communism,” yelled one “Operation Gridlock” protester in Colorado as a man in scrubs and a N-95 mask stood firmly opposite her in downtown Denver.
Exclusive: India’s stiffer foreign investment rules aimed at China to include Hong Kong – sources
India’s new rules to more closely scrutinise foreign investments from companies based in neighbouring countries will also apply to Hong Kong, two senior government sources told Reuters on Monday.