Archive for March 11th, 2019
Business Briefs 11 March 2019
* Sacombank (STB) has announced a credit package worth VND9 trillion for corporate customers at annual interest rates from 7%. The loans are available to trading and [...] » More
N Korea maintains repression, political prison campsUN expert
Despite actively pursuing diplomacy on its nuclear programme, North Korea continues to quash basic freedoms, maintaining political prison camps and strict surveillance of its [...] » More
Vietnam claims a Chinese ship rammed and sank a fishing boat in the latest South China Sea clash
Vietnam claims that a Chinese ship rammed and sank a fishing boat near the disputed Parcel Islands in the South China Sea, while Beijing tells an entirely different story. [...] » More
How China handles border disputes with neighbours India, Taiwan, Japan and others
With more than 22,117 kilometres of borders with 14 different countries, China has numerous overlapping territorial claims with its neighbours. Since 1949, the People’s [...] » More
Taiwan MAC: Beijing should reform its policies and behavior towards Tibet
The 60th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising is Sunday Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council has communicated a message to Beijing, asking authorities to think about [...] » More
A top Trump official may have just doomed US-N Korea talks
This is how you make success with North Korea less likely. A top Trump administration official has all but admitted that the US stance toward North Korea talks is now a [...] » More
On N. Korea, Trump clings to ‘all or nothing’ strategy
In Hanoi, Donald Trump overturned the widely held assumption he would be willing to settle for an interim agreement on North Korea’s denuclearisation. But despite the [...] » More
Flying the flag: N Korea puts on daily displays
Every workday morning, detachments of North Korean women armed with red flags take up their positions in strategic locations around Pyongyang. To the sound of patriotic songs [...] » More
Trump says he would be disappointed if N Korea resumed testing
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would be disappointed if Pyongyang were to resume weapons testing and reiterated his belief in his good relationship with North [...] » More
Gray leap forward: Xi Jinping shows natural hair color in a rare move for Chinese politics
Defying decades of political tradition, China’s most powerful man is going gray. Silver streaks in President Xi Jinping’s hair spotted at the annual national [...] » More
Australia admits failings in Pacific, as China looms
Australia has admitted it had not focused enough attention on its Pacific backyard but vowed to make “long overdue” amends, amid growing Chinese influence in the [...] » More
Chinese government praises Huawei for suing the US and not being ‘silent lambs’
At this point, it’s starting to seem unusual if there’s not a new development in the ongoing saga of Huawei from one day to the next. The latest drama in the [...] » More
How China’s trillion-dollar trade initiative helped forge a humanitarian crisis in Xinjiang
In its quest to take over the world, this country’s shocking tactics have sparked global outrage. If someone created a crossover between George Orwell’s 1984 and [...] » More
US beef exports soar to a record in 2018, but China growth remains elusive
US beef exports soared to record levels in 2018 thanks to exports to Asia, but it wasn’t sales to China that drove the growth. “We just regained access to China [...] » More
China’s GDP growth pace was inflated for nine years, study finds
China over-reported its economic growth between 2008 and 2016 by an average of 1.7 percentage points, according to a recent study by researchers at the Chinese University of [...] » More
