Tag Archives: China

China’s largest state-owned banks operating in Hong Kong are taking tentative steps to comply with US sanctions imposed on city officials, and are trying to protect their access to major dollar financing and foreign networks. Large lenders with operations in the US included Bank of China Ltd., China Construction Bank …

Taipei, Taiwan – Two Chinese jets flew briefly across the “median line” of Taiwan Street – the de facto border between China and Taiwan – on Monday morning in what has been a busy year in military exercises across the Strait. While the jets signaled Beijing’s displeasure with U.S. Secretary …

A man in his 20s has died of bubonic plague in New Mexico, state health authorities confirmed Friday. His death came only a few days after another case of plague, in the man in his 60s, this year the first was diagnosed in the state. The two men lived more …

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, owner of Apple Daily of Hong Kong, and pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow, have been released on bail after being arrested as part of a collapse under a new security law introduced by Beijing. Lai was released in the early hours of Wednesday, flanked by his lawyers, …