Category: Business
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics briefing: the show must go on
Today in a nutshell: Daiki Hashimoto won the men’s all-round gymnastics for the hosts, Latvia and Fiji struck team success, Australia had a huge medal haul in the rowing, but a lot of minds were still focussed on Simone Biles. Tomorrow’s key moments: There’s the prospect of more hard-fought swimming finals, the BMX racing gets…
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Joe Biden is determined that China should not displace America
A MERICA MUST focus on “blunting Chinese power and order and building the foundations for US power and order”. That, at least, is the message of a recent book by Rush Doshi, until recently a scholar at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank in Washington, DC . “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American…
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COVID or not, ‘the desire to eat wildlife’ continues in Asia
Countries in the region moved to ban the sale and consumption of wildlife after COVID-19 emerged, but coronavirus remains rampant and so does the trade. Continuing attempts to curb the sale of wild animals and their meat have failed to engender change at wet markets in the Asia Pacific, even as the region struggles to…
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Pakistan lost another regional heritage to commercialization
PESHAWAR: Some years ago Pakistan boasted Hindu temples, which was a cultural loss to the local Hindu people who resides there and now Pakistan has lost another cultural heritage, which dated back to 2,000 years. As one of South Asia’s most ancient cities, Peshawar boasts a rich cultural and religious heritage that stretches back to…
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US warns investors over risks of doing business in Hong Kong
The administration of United States President Joe Biden published an advisory warning Friday that China’s push to exert more control over Hong Kong threatens the rule of law and endangers employee data. The Biden administration warned investors about the risks of doing business in Hong Kong, issuing an advisory that said China’s push to exert…
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Eswatini protests: ‘we are fighting a liberation struggle’
Authorities in Eswatini have promised a “national dialogue” in an attempt to avert further unrest after dozens died and hundreds of businesses were burned down in weeks of protest in Africa’s only remaining absolute monarchy. The move has been greeted with scepticism by opposition leaders and analysts, with fears of further violence in the landlocked…
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‘The pressure is unbearable’: final days of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
On Wednesday morning, the Apple Daily reporter Angel Kwan was at a government press conference for the Hong Kong census when her phone started buzzing with notifications. Six days earlier, hundreds of police had raided her workplace, arrested her bosses and seized dozens of computers. On Monday, the company board had said it would have…
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Ferocious birth-control policies in Xinjiang are racially targeted
W HEN CONFRONTED with uncomfortable facts, China’s usual response comes in two parts. First it tries denial and obfuscation. Should that not work, officials attack the motives of foreign critics. Arguments over Xinjiang, a far-western region that China runs with an iron fist, have reached this dangerous stage. Listen to this story Your browser does…
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Didi tumbles after mega IPO as China unveils new cyber probe
The surprise probe by China’s internet regulator piles on the scrutiny of Didi over concerns ranging from antitrust issues to data security. Didi Global Inc. tumbled Friday after China said it’s starting a cybersecurity review of the ride-hailing company just two days after it pulled off one of the biggest U.S. stock market debuts of…
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No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world
In the years after it was founded in 1999, the Swedish video game company Paradox Interactive quietly built a reputation for developing some of the best, and most hardcore, strategy games on the market. “Deep, endless, complex, unyielding games,” is how Shams Jorjani, the company’s chief business development officer, describes Paradox’s offerings. Most of its…