As tariffs put trade between China and the US in peril, Chinese businesses ponder the futureEscalating tariffs between the U.S. and China are pushing businesses to the brink, threatening decades-long trade ties. A Chinese exporter,...
13 Apr, 2025, 10.53 AM IST
'The tsunami is coming': China's global exports are just getting startedWhile China focuses on industrial expansion, domestic consumer spending remains weak due to a housing market crash and limited social safet...
09 Apr, 2025, 07.00 PM IST
Facing budget crunches, Chinese tax collectors descend on companiesChinese authorities embarked on a crackdown to recover decades-old unpaid taxes from companies and individuals to address significant budge...
08 Aug, 2024, 12.39 PM IST
Who will pay for the Baltimore bridge collapse?After the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, President Biden pledged the federal government's full funding for rebuilding. Lia...
07 Apr, 2024, 02.50 PM IST
As China looks to broker Gaza peace, antisemitism surges onlineEven as China seeks to turn down the temperature diplomatically, a surge of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment is proliferating across...
29 Oct, 2023, 10.25 AM IST
Blue Whale Challenge and other 'games' of deathThe lethal game has allegedly claimed over 130 deaths so far, with multiple teen suicides in India.
02 Jun, 2023, 12.51 PM IST
In China, doctors say they are discouraged from citing COVID on death certificatesSix doctors at public hospitals across China told Reuters they had either received similar oral instructions discouraging them from attribu...
17 Jan, 2023, 02.37 PM IST
This is what happens when globalization breaks downThe largest multinational retailers like Amazon and Walmart have responded to the convulsions in the supply chain by chartering their own c...
01 Apr, 2022, 09.49 AM IST
Medical students studying in China University seeks physical training in India, Delhi HC issues noticeThe Petitioners, 147 students of medicine in the Ningbo University (China) states that they returned to India in early 2020 (January to Mar...
10 Feb, 2022, 02.55 PM IST
Global supply chain is in a crisis. Here are the issuesEmerging countries have faced a sudden surge in demand for their raw materials as economies reopen and recover from the Covid pandemic.
15 Oct, 2021, 11.58 AM IST
As China boomed, it didn’t take climate change into account. Now it must.China has always had floods, but as Kong Feng, then a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, wrote in 2019, the floodin...
27 Jul, 2021, 09.42 AM IST
China's disenchanted youth 'lie flat' to cope with modern lifeGround down by the sapping realities of modern city life, China's youth are "lying flat", the latest buzzword for those tapping out of a cu...
03 Jun, 2021, 01.30 PM IST
Coronavirus outbreak drives demand for China’s online grocersIt’s an unexpected windfall for grocery delivery services that have perennially struggled with the logistics of transporting perishables li...
11 Feb, 2020, 02.26 PM IST
Ex-teen soldier hatches millions from Chinese egg futuresA remarkable rags-to-riches journey achieved in part by dominating one of the most obscure corners of China's unruly financial markets: egg...
03 Aug, 2015, 10.53 AM IST
Easing the law on container transshipment will reduce freight rates & boost shippingEasing the law on container transshipment in coastal waters will reduce freight rates and boost shipping
06 Sep, 2012, 08.35 AM IST
China Inc's succession problem: Entrepreneurs unsure if children can cope with business model demandsThe lack of abilities and experience among the next generation worries entrepreneurs.
24 Apr, 2011, 05.08 AM IST
- Chinese cities streets ahead of ours
Chinese govt may be seen as totalitarian & corrupt but it is highly efficient in providing urban infrastructure. Weekly Gainers: BSE (A, B,...
20 Jun, 2009, 06.30 PM IST