Six more Hong Kong patients taken to hospital over Wuhan pneumonia fears as number of cases in city rises to 14
HONG KONG, Jan 5, 2019, SCMP. Six more patients have been identified with fever and…
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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.
Protesters slam Chinese traders in Hong Kong border town
HONG KONG, Jan 5, 2020, Reuters. Over a thousand protesters in Hong Kong gathered in…
[Analytics] East vs West battle for SE Asia’s 5G rollout
Chinese telecom giant Huawei predicted in late December that the number of 5G connections worldwide…
Wuhan pneumonia outbreak: Hong Kong steps up response as more cases reported
HONG KONG/KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4, 2020, AP, The Star/Asia New Network. Hong Kong authorities activated…
China insists arbitral ruling is ‘illegal’ amid Indonesia’s protest
MANILA, Jan 4, 2020, PhilStar. China continues to reject the July 2016 ruling of a…
Japan, China, S. Korea step up banking cooperation with ASEAN
TOKYO, Jan 4, 2020, Kyodo. Government-backed development banks of Japan, China and South Korea have…
[Ratings] Top 10 international news by The Korea Herald
1. US-China trade deal On Dec. 13, the US and China reached a partial deal…
Thai stock exchange is a one of Asia’s weakest markets in 2019
BANGKOK, Dec 31, 2019, Bangkok Post. The Stock Exchange of Thailand recorded a small gain…
[Ratings] Top 10 China news events in 2019 by the Xinhua
1. FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW TO BOOST HIGH-LEVEL OPENING UP The second session of the 13th…
[Ratings] Five key developments in South Asia in the 2010s — and What they mean for the 2020s
South Asia, according to a recent IMF study, houses more than a fifth of the…
Indonesia protests China boats in its EEZ
JAKARTA, Dec 31, 2019, Reuters. Indonesia has protested to Beijing over the presence of a…
[Analytics] Modi to further push ‘Make in India’
Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014, his political approaches have shown…