Antisemitism in the US is on the rise – what do US senators and Israeli ministers have to say about it? Save your seat In Hanoi and Beijing, they’re talking about Israel’s public broadcasting crisis, or more accurately why the crisis should not be a pretext for holding new elections. Reporters traveling in Vietnam with President Reuven Rivlin and in China with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were more inclined to report on the broadcasting dilemma and possible election crisis than on bilateral relations.
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Key retailer stocks suffer extended loss…
Stocks of major retailers and their affiliates with business ties to China continued to plunge early Monday morning, as Beijing has intensified its measures against South Korea in what appears to be retaliation for the deployment of an advanced US anti-missile battery. Shares of retail giant Lotte Group affiliates were hammered, with Lotte Shopping Co.
Chinese Retaliation Over Antimissile System Has South Korea Worried
Signs that China is orchestrating a corporate boycott against South Korean companies are raising fears here that Beijing is widening its offensive against Seoul’s missile-defense plans.
Chinese Retaliation Over Antimissile System Has South Korea Worried
Signs that China is orchestrating a corporate boycott against South Korean companies are raising fears here that Beijing is widening its offensive against Seoul’s missile-defense plans.
China’s ‘unofficial’ sanctions rattle South Korea
South Korean businesses were rattled Friday by signs that the deployment of a controversial U.S. missile system in the country could spark a travel boycott by China. The government in Seoul said it believed Chinese authorities had told travel agencies in Beijing to stop selling trips to South Korea, intensifying fears of a trade war between the neighbors.
$500 Hong Kong-Vancouver direct flights on offer in March
Jordan Cheung remembers every place he went when he spent a summer visiting his sister in Vancouver – Stanley Park, the seawall, Lake Louisea . Years later, Cheung is just the traveller he hopes to convince to fly direct from Hong Kong to Vancouver on Hong Kong Airlines.
So what is the “One China” policy?
The countries fell out over Trump’s questioning of the “One China” policy, which has governed the Chinese relationship with Taiwan for 37 years. What is the ‘One China’ policy? The countries fell out over Trump’s questioning of the “One China” policy, which has governed the Chinese relationship with Taiwan for 37 years.
So what is the “One China” policy?
The countries fell out over Trump’s questioning of the “One China” policy, which has governed the Chinese relationship with Taiwan for 37 years. What is the ‘One China’ policy? The countries fell out over Trump’s questioning of the “One China” policy, which has governed the Chinese relationship with Taiwan for 37 years.
Marry a foreigner: One way to avoid Spring Festival dilemma
BEIJING: The annual argument over whose family to spend the Lunar New Year with has become a modern tradition for married couples in China. But it’s one that Qiu Feilan will be spared because her husband is a foreigner whose family does not celebrate the most important holiday for Chinese people around the world.
China, Philippines to roll out $3.7B in cooperation projects
State media cite a senior Chinese official as saying China and the Philippines have agreed on $3.7 billion worth of projects to boost cooperation. The official Xinhua News Agency cited Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng as saying after a Monday meeting with a Cabinet delegation from the Philippines that the projects are aimed at “improving people’s living standards.”
Wa State Suffers as Fewer Chinese Come to Party
In a remote casino in northeastern Burma, China’s pervasive campaign against graft has taken its toll. Hundreds of local traders and farmers place petty bets as low as 10 cents, outnumbering a few Chinese who were once the VIPs of a gambling hall decorated with chandeliers and Renaissance-style paintings.
Uruguay Highlights Importance Of China For Latin America
The President of the House of Representatives of Uruguay, Gerardo Amarilla, visiting here today, has highlighted the importance China has for his country, which is the main trade partner, and for Latin America in general. In a meeting with Ibero-American diplomatic representatives, journalists and intellectuals, he stated that Uruguay and China have much to grow together, ‘they complement each other and have unlimited potentiality, which can and will be exploited in favour of the development of both peoples.’
Taiwan president to transit Houston, San Francisco next month
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will transit through Houston and San Francisco during her January visit to allies in Latin American countries, her office said on Friday, a move certain to anger mainland China which a day earlier urged the United States to block a stopover. Tsai is transiting in the US on her way to and from visiting Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador.
China plans to land probes on far side of moon, Mars by 2020
In this Nov. 18, 2016, file photo released by Xinhua News Agency, ground crew check on the re-entry capsule of Shenzhou 11 spacecraft, which brought back a pair of Chinese astronauts from a monthlong stay aboard China’s space station, after it landed in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
A promotional flyer for WHAM!’s Beijing concert in 1985. File photo
But now, prompted by the death of George Michael to recall that time, I can see that the concert I attended was more than just a musical first, it was a symbol of the changes that were setting China on the road to the country it is today. ) had started the ball rolling in the late 1970s by opening the country to foreign trade and bringing in the idea of entrepreneurism, and the period from late 1984 to 1986 was an interesting time to be in the Chinese capital as it felt as if Deng’s ideas had started to really gather pace.