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Continue ReadingCaixin PMI falls in December after five-month rise
Photo taken on July 16, 2019 shows a workshop producing mobile phone frame parts at Huamao Electronics Group in Chang’an Town of Dongguan, south China’s Guangdong Province. Photo:Xinhua China’s manufacturing activity in December remained in the expansion territory but slipped from a November three-year peak. The Caixin Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for […]
Continue ReadingArctic gas to ease winter shortage
China’s annual imports from the Yamal natural gas project in the resource-rich Arctic region will further secure China’s energy security with increasing supplies of the natural gas, which is currently experiencing a severe shortage especially in northern China, said an executive from China National Petroleum Corp. China’s imports from the Yamal project play a significant […]
Continue ReadingInternational group praises green revival
High-level advisory panel pitches 15-year pollution fight, but holds China up as model A high-level international advisory body applauded China’s efforts to improve the environment and suggested a 15-year strategy against pollution in a draft recommendation report on Monday. China has made building an ecological civilization an important goal and has taken comprehensive measures to […]
Continue ReadingEducation, health fees among key concerns
China to legislate on preschool education China will push for legislation on preschool education to provide a legal guarantee for the operation and management of such institutions, Vice-minister of Education Tian Xuejun said on Nov 30. Tian made the remarks at a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office regarding a child abuse […]
Continue ReadingHong Kong Protesters Return to Streets as New Year Begins
HONG KONG — Hong Kong protesters began the new year the way they’d spent much of the old one: in the streets. Nearly a month of relative quiet abruptly ended on Wednesday with the sounds of protesters’ chants and police officers’ tear-gas rifles. A peaceful New Year’s Day march descended within a few hours into […]
Continue ReadingIndia Cold Wave Breaks Records, Shuts Schools and Makes Bad Air Worse
NEW DELHI — A brutal cold wave has swept northern India, blanketing streets in freezing fog, intensifying pollution, disrupting hundreds of flights and prompting school closures. India’s capital, New Delhi, experienced its coldest day in 119 years on Monday, with the maximum temperature dipping below 49 degrees Fahrenheit (9.4 Celsius), about 20 degrees below the […]
Continue ReadingTaiwan’s Top Military Official and 7 Others Die in Helicopter Crash
Eight people including the chief of Taiwan’s armed forces were killed Thursday after the military helicopter carrying them crashed on a mountainside during a routine trip, Taiwan’s military said. The Black Hawk helicopter was carrying 13 people, including Shen Yi-ming, an air force general who served as the chief of general staff of Taiwan’s armed […]
Continue ReadingFrance Won’t Extradite Carlos Ghosn if He Goes There, Official Says
If the fugitive former automotive executive Carlos Ghosn were to go to France, the authorities there would not extradite him to Japan, a government minister said on Thursday, four days after Mr. Ghosn fled Japan to avoid trial on financial misconduct charges. Mr. Ghosn, the former chief executive of Nissan and Renault, made a stunning […]
Continue ReadingDeadly Flash Floods in Indonesia’s Capital Leave Thousands Homeless
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Flash floods killed at least 30 people and left tens of thousands homeless in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, the authorities said on Thursday after the city’s most intense period of rainfall since record keeping began more than 20 years ago. On Tuesday, parts of the city recorded more than a foot of […]
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