Thailand News with a China Business Perspective
Thailand News with a China Business Perspective
New Zealand’s (NZ) trade minister met last week with his Chinese counterpart to finalise details around an “upgrade” to its free trade agreement (FTA), which will come into effect on April 7. NZ’s Damien O’Connor said it was a “significant…
Shackled by her neck and locked up all day in a squalid shack, video footage of a mentally-ill woman imprisoned by her husband has cast a shadow over the festive mood created by Beijing’s Winter Olympics.The woman, surnamed Yang, has…
Beijing’s new digital currency is a tool that could prop up authoritarian regimes around the world, including China, and the Chinese paperless money could also undermine U.S. leadership in finance, warned a global finance professional. “This is a surveillance tool…
U.S. stock and bond markets fell in response to the announcement from the Federal Reserve on Jan. 26 that it will soon raise its benchmark interest rate and end its asset tapering program in early March. The NYSE Composite fell…
China’s domestic box office sales topped 2.3 billion yuan (US$361 million) by day two of the Lunar New Year on Wednesday, despite rising ticket prices and sporadic coronavirus outbreaks forcing cinemas to close in some parts of the country.Sales totalled…
A rising number of Chinese companies listed on Wall Street are under pressure to be cut off from U.S. capital markets due to poor performance and non-compliance with listing standards. Beijing-based MMTec, Inc. announced on Jan. 28 that it got…
News Analysis While the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks in the developed world are preparing to curb high inflation by winding down pandemic stimulus and raising interest rates, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is attempting to stimulate China’s economy,…
The world’s income and wealth inequality is said to have reached an “alarming” level two years into a global pandemic that has killed at least 5.5 million people.The disparity has proved particularly challenging for Asian countries, forcing Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok…
News Analysis As China prepares for the muted Lunar New Year celebrations due to Omicron, it faces its largest challenges to economic growth. With 2022 the Communist Party version of an election year—a time when growth is typically boosted and…
