[Analytics] ‘Crisis mode’: Coronavirus disrupts the heart of electronics manufacturing in China
Factories in China, the center of the electronics industry’s supply chain, have been closed for…
China
The People’s Republic of China is an economy of 1.3 billion people. When it joined APEC in 1991, it had a real GDP of USD 906 billion and a per capita GDP of USD 788. Today it is the second-largest economy in the world. By 2016, its real GDP has risen to USD 9.5 trillion, while its per capita GDP increased nine-fold to USD 6,800.
[Analytics] How lethal is the Wuhan virus?
Pathologists, microbiologists and public health experts from the University of Hong Kong have expressed different…
Coronavirus death toll reaches that of Sars as total hits 813 worldwide
BEIJING, Feb 9, 2020, SCMP. New deaths in China caused by the new coronavirus reached…
Its Wuhan plants shut, Honda reports quarterly profit drop
TOKYO, Feb 8, 2020, AP. Japanese automaker Honda reported Friday a nearly 31% dive in…
Panic buying hits Singapore after virus alert raised
SINGAPORE, Feb 8, 2020, AFP. Anxious Singapore shoppers formed long lines at grocery stores on…
HK imposes a quarantine for mainland Chinese
HONG KONG, Feb 8, 2020, AFP. The death toll from China’s coronavirus outbreak soared to…
Australian MP delivers stunning rebuke to UK’s Dominic Raab on Huawei
LONDON, Feb 8, 2020, SMH. A key member of Australia’s Parliamentary intelligence committee has strongly…
China turns to AI, data in fight against coronavirus
BEIJING, Feb 8, 2020, AFP. A man who had travelled to Wuhan – the central…
China’s GDP growth this quarter will be 0 per cent: Top economist Ed Hyman
BEIJING, Feb 8, 2020, CNBC. Evercore ISI Chairman Ed Hyman said he sees no economic…
Xi, Trump discuss coronavirus outbreak, US-China trade
BEIJING, Feb 8, 2020, China Daily. President Xi Jinping urged the United States on Friday…
[Analytics] Flow of Chinese tourists becomes a worrying trickle for Asia
Asian nations have profited handsomely from the impressive growth in tourists from China over the…
Two coal-fired power plant development projects approved in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Feb 7, 2020, The Khmer Times. A 700MW coal-fired power plant, a joint…