Month: December 2021

Advertisement Taiwan has relied heavily on migrant workers who make huge contributions in the manufacturing and electronic sectors. While these workers are helping sustain the growth of Taiwan’s economy, their rights and dignity often take second place after company profits. In general, migrant workers have faced enduring physical and emotional stress while the infrastructure for addressing their concerns remains limited and often difficult to access. There have been complaints about migrant workers being forced to stay in overcrowded dormitories with insufficient facilities and almost no private space, exposing them to…

CICC mainly relied on documents provided by Lenovo, the regulator said. “Related procedures and the evidence obtained were insufficient to support the disclosure, and [the bank] did not completely and accurately evaluate the [business] nature of the issuer on whether it is of scientific and technological innovation,” CSRC said. China’s regulators tightened the rules for IPOs on the Star Market in April, raising the bar for firms to prove their technology credentials. Technology firms, including those involved in information systems and advanced manufacturing equipment will be fast-tracked for approvals. Regulators…

The match organisers, the National Youth Campus Football League, said in a statement at the time: “Athletes at all stages shall not have tattoos, dye their hair, wear weird hairstyles, or wear any accessories, otherwise they will be ineligible for the competition.” BBC

On Wednesday morning more than 200 Hong Kong police officers swooped into the office of Stand News to conduct a raid. By the end of the day, one of the few remaining pro-democracy websites in Hong Kong announced it was closing down immediately. Seven people have been arrested and accused of a “conspiracy to publish seditious publications”, while all staff have been dismissed. Authorities claim some of the news website’s articles incited secession, subversion of state power and called for foreign governments to impose sanctions. But critics say it has…

Advertisement The indicators of the real state of the Chinese economy aren’t only found in the debt, growth, and production output statistics released by the Chinese government. Indeed, a defining indicator of China’s economic condition can be found in an unlikely product sector: pearl jewelry. Well-to-do Chinese women have significantly reduced their purchases of expensive saltwater pearl jewelry, imported by small Chinese businesses that cater to this niche market. Many small jewelers are on the verge of going under, if they haven’t already. This trend seems to fly in the…

Dec 29th 2021 NEW YORK IN NOVEMBER 2022 Xi Jinping will have served for ten years as China’s leader. In the coming months, state media will be filled with fawning tributes to his decade in power. Yet they will give little inkling of how he makes decisions or interacts with colleagues. Even more than his predecessors, Mr Xi operates in the shadows. China has published many volumes of excerpts from his speeches. Only recently, however, has a rare leak of secret versions offered a glimpse of how Mr Xi communicates…

Advertisement For nearly two decades, the chief wordsmith in Beijing was Wang Huning. A law professor turned government official, from 2002 Wang led the Central Policy Research Office (CPRO), the Chinese Communist Party’s top think tank, and became a Politburo Standing Committee member in 2017. The extent of Wang’s input into the slogans and policies of the three successive administrations of Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping prompted political scientists Haig Patapan and Wang Yi to write of him as a “Hidden Ruler” in a 2017 article in The…