Beijing Disciplines Jack Ma’s Ant Group With $1 Billion Fine
Ant Group, the parent company of Alibaba and Alipay, has just been fined nearly $1 billion by state regulators...
China Shifts Focus to Domestic Demand and Green Tech Opportunities Amid Export Downturn
A critical decrease in China's exports — the fastest since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — has underscored...
Chinese ‘Tourist’ Spy Thwarted at UK Parliament Briefing On Hong Kong Dissidents
A purported Chinese Communist Party spy attempting to enter a non-public briefing at the UK House of...
Yellen’s China Visit Fails to ‘Stabilize the Relationship’
News analysis In her recent four-day trip to China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spent over...
NYC Care and Asian American Federation Launch Video Series to Boost Healthcare Access
NEW YORK, New York — On July 12, NYC Health + Hospitals' NYC Care healthcare program launched the "Doctor Public Service Announcement" video series — a collaborative effort with the Asian American Federation (AAF). In...
Yixing Teapots: Tradition, Elegance and Artistry
As my design studio professor Paula Horrigan always stressed, a good design is “simple, elegant and direct.” When it comes to brewing tea, nothing fits the bill better than the traditional Chinese Yixing teapot. Meticulously...
China-based Hackers Breached Secretary Raimondo’s Email Account: Reports
An “adversary based in China” that Microsoft has given the moniker “Storm-0558” has breached the email servers of “approximately” 25 U.S. organizations, including government agencies, Microsoft alerted the public in a July 11 blog post....
Why China’s Youth Unemployment Rate May Be Much Worse Than 20%
Recently, Chinese authorities admitted that the unemployment rate in China for youth aged 16 to 24 exceeded 20 percent. The official numbers indicated that the youth unemployment rate in April 2023, was 20.4 percent, which...
Cisco May Be Sued for Aiding and Abetting CCP’s Persecution of Falun Gong: US Appeals Court
A 12-year-old lawsuit alleging that tech company Cisco assisted the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its suppression of human rights has been revived by decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit...
NYS: Unprecedented Flooding Causes Widespread Damage in Orange, Rockland, and Putnam Counties
On July 10, a total of 25 million people were in flood alert zones in the northeastern United States. In New York State, after a storm system moved northward through Orange county to Rockland county,...
Bank of America Slapped With $250 Million in Fines and Repayments Over Consumer Protection Violations
On July 11, regulatory agencies disclosed that Bank of America — one of the country's leading financial institutions — was found to have violated various consumer protection laws. These breaches included the imposing of duplicate...
John Kerry, US Climate Envoy, to Visit China
After China trips by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen earlier this month, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, is confirmed for a visit to America's...