Hong Kong on Friday unveiled a draft security bill proposing up to life imprisonment for offences such as “insurrection” and “treason.”
United Airlines launches Morocco, Colombia flights, beefs up China service
Major airlines are chasing a rebound in international travel, whose revenue has grown faster than domestic travel.
Southeast Asia’s smartphone market is booming so far this year as China remains sluggish, research says
Smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia continued a resurgence at the start of 2024, contrasting to a lull in other regions.
China’s top securities regulator vows to ‘strictly’ crack down on market manipulators
Ensuring fairness, especially in a market dominated by smaller investors, is the regulator’s core task, said Wu Qing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
Debate heats up as Singapore prime minister says exclusive Taylor Swift deal isn’t ‘unfriendly’
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday the country’s closed-door deal with Taylor Swift’s promoters is “not unfriendly” to nearby countries.
China may have to resort to a tried-and-tested tactic to power its ‘new leap forward’
President Xi Jinping wants new technologies to propel China’s future growth, but Beijing may have to tap on infrastructure spending to hit its 2024 growth target.
Will Nikkei’s record-breaking rally sustain even as Japan’s economy sputters?
Japan’s Nikkei stock index has been on a record-breaking spree, but the country’s ailing economy has experts divided over this sustainability of this rally.
Yale’s Stephen Roach says China may have run out of imaginative solutions to its tough problems
China has not held its “Third Plenum” meeting that was expected to take place last year, which could be a sign that is is struggling to address its challenges.
China sets GDP 2024 target of ‘around 5%,’ plans to issue ‘ultra-long’ special bonds for major projects
The targets for GDP and other economic indicators were published as part of the opening of the National People’s Congress annual meeting.
China says military spending growth in 2024 to stay the same as last year at 7.2%
Beijing vowed to “resolutely oppose separatist activities aimed at ‘Taiwan independence’ and external interference.”