China

China has extracted a record amount of coal in the past year. A total of 4.5 billion tons of coal was mined, the Chinese statistics office has calculated. That is an increase of 9 percent compared to 2021. Gas production also…
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China imported fewer computer chips last year than a year earlier, China Customs reports. Corona lockdowns and outbreaks in China partly caused the drop of more than 15 percent. As a result, several factories could not run at full…
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European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourová "counts on" the popular short video app TikTok to "make an extra effort to comply with European data protection laws and regain the trust of European regulators". "There should be no…
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Chinese online retailer Alibaba plans to build a logistics distribution centre near Istanbul Airport. The company also plans to build a large data centre near the Turkish capital Ankara. Alibaba president Michael Evans said this in…
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China's reopening after its protracted zero-covid policy is good news for Australia's economy. An economist from the American bank JPMorgan Chase has calculated that Chinese students and tourists could help that country with almost a…
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In China, one celebrity dies after another. As a result, there is a lot of speculation on the largest social media channel, Weibo, about the cause. According to official figures, not a single corona death has occurred in China for weeks,…
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China did not report any new deaths from Covid-19 on Wednesday after changing its method of counting cases, even though the country is experiencing an unprecedented epidemic resurgence. Since 2020, China has imposed strict sanitary…
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China will likely show much less economic growth next year than previously because the corona pandemic and lockdowns are still causing significant disruption. That says the World Bank, which has significantly lowered its growth…
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