Category: China
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Alibaba benefits as it trades listing status in Hong Kong to tap mainland Chinese funding.
Alibaba Group Holding said it would switch its listing status in Hong Kong, in a technical move that qualifies the technology behemoth to sell shares to mainland China’s 220 million stock investors. The Hangzhou-based company, whose shares had been listed in New York since 2014 and in Hong Kong since 2019, will convert into a dual-primary listing status on…
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China adopts the United Nations’ suggestions to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America.
It’s been a little over a decade since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative, a global program to improve relations with Latin America and other developing regions through trillions of dollars in investment in infrastructure and energy projects. But China hasn’t always carried out those projects in a responsible way, sparking outcry about their…
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Shein exposes child labor incidents as it increases supplier audits.
Fast fashion retailer Shein found two cases of child labour at its suppliers last year, it said in its 2023 sustainability report, as it stepped up audits of manufacturers in China to assuage criticisms of its low-cost business model ahead of a planned flotation. Shein said in the report yesterday it had suspended orders from…
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Shein uncovers child labor incidents at suppliers.
Chinese fast fashion giant Shein says it found two cases of child labour in its supply chain last year as it tightens scrutiny of the companies that make the clothes it sells. The firm says it temporarily suspended orders from the suppliers involved and did not resume business with them until they had stepped up…
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Harvard law researcher calls China’s Uyghur policy a “racialized atrocity crime.”
The Chinese government has imposed 4.4 million years of cumulative imprisonment on ethnic Uyghurs in its far-western Xinjiang region, a new report has found. The report, titled Uyghur Race as the Enemy and published by the Yale Macmillan Center’s Genocide Studies Program, finds high rates of incarceration are part of “racialised atrocity crimes” occurring in China against…
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The ‘Campaign for Uyghur’ demands for international responsibility for China’s human rights violations.
On the fifth annual International Day of Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, Campaign for Uyghur’s Founder and Executive Director, Rushan Abbas took part in a webinar entitled “Prisoners of Conscience: Violence and Detention and Violence in Detention. Rushan gave a harrowing account of the Uyghur Genocide against the Muslim Uyghur…
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Hundreds of Uyghur scientists are imprisoned in China, according to a rights group.
Index on Censorship, an organization that promotes freedom of expression globally, is featuring the silencing of scientists and science around the world in the next issue of its publication. One country where scientists and intellectuals, especially those who are Uyghur, have disappeared over the years is China. In recent years, the Uyghur rights organization Uyghur…
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A critical look at China’s future
As Xi Jinping tightens his grip on power in China, the world watches with bated breath, wondering what the future holds for this global superpower. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi’s leadership has taken a dangerous turn, reverting to a one-man dictatorship reminiscent of the darkest days of Mao Zedong’s rule. This shift threatens…
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US Tibet ambassador meets Dalai Lama and maintains support.
New York, Aug 22 : In a significant diplomatic move, US Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, Uzra Zeya, met Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who underwent successful knee replacement surgery, to convey President Joe Biden’s wishes and reaffirmed commitment to advancing the human rights of Tibetans. At the meeting in New York, she discussed…
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US official meets Dalai Lama to address Chinese ‘human rights crimes within Tibet’
Dalai Lama on Wednesday (Aug 21) met a Biden administration official in New York City as the India-based Tibetan spiritual leader continues with his effort for Tibetan self-rule decades after China took territorial control over 1.2 million sq km of landmass neighbouring India. “On August 21, 2024, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and…