China
How China’s growing gig economy has left a generation adrift
For all of December, Li Yun spent her weekends pretending to be a dentist or a flight attendant. She wasn’t an actor, nor was she beginning a career in medicine or aviation. She was working as a non-p...
Middle East war jolts oil, dollar gains, Asia tech winners emerge
Geopolitics vs. economics - Middle East conflict drives oil prices and stagflation fears; the safe-haven dollar rises, challenging gold.
Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai decides against appealing 20-year sentence
This ends a marathon legal battle that has become a source of friction in China’s relations with the West
Pfizer secures China nod for obesity drug as generics loom
Pfizer now enters a field dominated by multinational rivals
China boosts defence spending by 7% in drive to modernise by 2035
It is stepping up deployments across East Asia and purging top brass to tackle graft
China’s top chip bosses urge supportive policies to create ‘China’s ASML’
The country faces bottlenecks in EDA and basic materials, along with EUV machines
China tells top refiners to halt diesel and petrol exports
Across Asia, the country ranks third for seaborne exports, behind South Korea and Singapore
China to inject 300 billion yuan into state banks, deepen reform of state financial firms
Chinese lenders have faced rising bad loans tied to struggling real estate developers and cash-strapped local governments
China touts high-tech push as rivalry with US intensifies
It set its economic growth target for 2026 at 4.5 to 5 per cent
China sends special envoy to Middle East for ‘mediation efforts’
The Trump administration has not given any public indication it’s prepared to turn to Beijing for mediating the Iran war
