More than 100m visitors traveled to Southeast Asian countries in 2023, reaching 70% of pre-COVID level, following the region's economic recovery and new ... Show more asia.nikkei.com/Business/Travel-Leisure/Visitors-to-ASEAN-hit-100m-in-2023-70-of-pre-COVID-level
Fares fall as Australian air travel returns to pre-Covid capacity, Flight Centre says
theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/13/fares-fall-as-australian-air-travel-returns-to-pre-covid-capacity-flight-centre-says
China uncertainty clouds outlook for luxury sector: Investors are bracing for a steep slowdown in luxury sales when luxury companies report their first quarter ...
reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/china-uncertainty-clouds-outlook-luxury-sector-2024-04-09/
China's big three state-owned airlines are lagging behind as domestic and Asian competitors dramatically improve their bottom lines following the end of ... Show more asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Big-three-Chinese-airlines-extend-losing-streak-as-rivals-rise-after-COVID
China in Africa: Chinese are leaving the continent in droves: The Covid pandemic is to blame for the exodus. But not only.
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Court dismisses Air NZ appeal over Covid compensation to crew: A former Air New Zealand flight attendant who fell ill with Covid-19 while helping people get home ...
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Lunar New Year: China tourism spending tops pre-Covid levels: The figures mark some rare good news for the world's second-largest economy.
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Quick Glance: China's Travel Spending Surpasses Pre-COVID Levels
- Tourism revenues during Lunar New Year surged by 47.3% year-on-year, surpassing 2019 levels.
- Domestic tourism spending reached 632.7 billion yuan, a 47.3% increase from the previous year.
- Domestic trips grew by 34.3% to a total of 474 million.
- International trips reached 13.52 million, 2.8 times higher than the previous year.
China sets 2024 GDP growth target at around 5%, same as last year: China will boost its defence spending by 7.2 per cent, according to an official work report.
channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-2024-gdp-growth-target-defence-spending-4171136
Quick Glance: China Aims for Stable Growth of Around 5%
- China targets economic growth of approximately 5% to transform its development model and reduce wasteful spending.
- Premier Li Qiang delivered his maiden work report at the National People's Congress, emphasizing the need for structural adjustments.
- The government plans to boost growth through increased state investments, a proactive fiscal stance, and a prudent monetary policy.
- China intends to advance technology innovation, lift foreign investment restrictions in manufacturing, and promote self-sufficiency in technology.
China's upbeat industrial output, retail sales tempered by frail property: China's factory output and retail sales beat expectations in the January-February ...
reuters.com/markets/asia/china-jan-feb-industrial-output-retail-sales-beat-expectations-2024-03-18/
EU war alliance: Switzerland should keep its distance. Covid and WHO: The obscure charm of despotism. China Ambassador: Maintain neutrality! Why the SBB is ...
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Hong Kong's flagship airline Cathay Pacific said its net profit hit $1.25 billion in 2023 and the company benefited from a surge in demand following the end of ... Show more www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/cathay-pacific-posts-first-annual-profit-four-years-2024-03-13/
Chinese tourists flock to Southeast Asia as overseas travel bounces back: Chinese travellers flocked to tourist hot-spots across Asia over the Lunar New Year ...
reuters.com/world/china/chinese-tourists-flock-southeast-asia-overseas-travel-bounces-back-2024-02-20/
Macau’s Economy Rebounds in 2023 with Tourism Revival: In 2023, Macau's GDP surged by 80.5% due to lifted COVID restrictions and tourism recovery ...
riotimesonline.com/macaus-economy-rebounds-in-2023-with-tourism-revival/
Cheap Cars Are Dead: With cars like the Nissan Versa and Mitsubishi Mirage bound to be discontinued, the sub-$20,000 car is officially dead.
motor1.com/features/710453/cheap-cars-dead/
China: Is lack of growth endangering political stability?: The Chinese Communist Party seems to believe that, given its power, and control apparatus to be able ...
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China's oil demand growth could halve from pre-Covid levels as property, auto sectors struggle
cnbc.com/2024/02/28/chinas-oil-demand-growth-could-halve-from-pre-covid-levels.html
Cost-conscious Chinese tourists skip Australia for visa-free countries in Southeast Asia
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Gravitas Highlights | Long Covid: Why Indians are more affected than the ChineseWatch full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qSew_lb7g #Gravitas #Covid #India #LongCovid
China Economy: FDI Slumps to Lowest Since 1993 With $33 Billion Added in 2023: Foreign businesses’ direct investment into China last year increased by the lowest ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-18/foreign-direct-investment-into-china-slumps-to-worst-in-30-years
Paid articlePaid Hong Kong Records Most Chinese New Year Tourists Since Pre-Covid: Chinese tourists tapped a lengthy national holiday to travel to Hong Kong ...
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HSBC’s Tucker Talks Up China’s Outlook After Exit From Covid: HSBC Holdings Plc Chairman Mark Tucker talked up the prospects for China’s economy ...
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Bloomberg New Economy: Cutting China Out of Biotech Unifies US Parties: Four years after Covid-19 first appeared in China, Washington is assembling a plan to ...
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China to show off homegrown airliner at Singapore air show amid supply crunch: Singapore will play host to Asia's biggest air show next week for the first time ...
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China’s Chronic Zero COVID Trauma: More than a year after China scrapped its zero-COVID policy, it has become clear that most analysts underestimated the adverse ...
thediplomat.com/2024/02/chinas-chronic-zero-covid-trauma/
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China's population falls for second straight year as births drop despite end of one-child policy
abc.net.au/news/2024-01-18/chinese-population-falls-second-year-covid-19-one-child-policy/103361562
Tourism booms for China’s ice sculpture city Harbin in post-Covid revival: When Anson Li and his postgraduate friends were planning a winter break,
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Roger Bate: A pandemic treaty will double down on all the bad ideas from COVID-19
chicagotribune.com/2024/02/02/ct-opinion-pandemic-treaty-world-health-organization/
Evergrande: How the crisis continues to weigh on China's economy: After the end of the strict Corona policy, China's economy has regained strength ...
wiwo.de/finanzen/immobilien/immobilien-wie-evergrande-chinas-wirtschaft-weiter-belastet/29634970.html
Hong Kong GDP Growth Disappoints in 2023 on Slow Recovery: Hong Kong’s economy grew at a slower-than-expected pace last year, underscoring the challenges facing ...
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Paid articlePaid Weak economy, COVID rampage likely shrank China's population again in 2023: China's population likely dropped for a second consecutive year in 2023 due to a ...
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Hong Kong’s tourism numbers to return to pre-Covid levels by end of 2025, trailing Macau and other Greater Bay Area cities, new platform forecasts
scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3249797/hong-kongs-tourism-numbers-return-pre-covid-levels-end-2025-trailing-macau-and-other-greater-bay
Swatch Group Sales Miss Record as Strong Franc Dents Results
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/swatch-group-sales-miss-record-as-china-rebound-lags
‘Strangers started telling me to go home’: why foreigners who endured China’s Covid lockdowns now say they’ve had enough
scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3248369/strangers-started-telling-me-go-home-why-foreigners-who-endured-chinas-covid-lockdowns-now-say
Quick Glance: Foreigners Leaving China After Covid Lockdowns
- Foreigners who stayed in China during strict Covid controls decided to leave last year due to increasing hostility and fears of repeated lockdown experiences.
- The number of foreign residents in Shanghai fell by over 20% to 164,000 and by 40% in Beijing to 63,000 in the decade leading up to November 2020.
- The stories of foreigners leaving in recent years suggest that China will struggle to attract individuals and companies from abroad.
- Individual departures of foreigners are driven by a weak economy, compliance risks, and geopolitical tensions, affecting the departure of businesses.
China Set to Reach 2023 Growth Goal as Focus Shifts to New Year: China’s set to publish the last major data dump for 2023, capping a difficult year after its ...
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Chinese tourists slow to return to France following the Covid-19 pandemic: The drop in visitor numbers comes as a result of delays in obtaining visas ...
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China hid COVID-19 details weeks before it became pandemic, US documents show: China hid COVID-19 details weeks before it became pandemic, US documents show
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China's economic growth exceeds government target: By catching up at the end of the year, the Chinese economy slightly exceeded the government's official growth ...
finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/besserung-zum-jahresende-chinas-wirtschaftwachstum-uebertrifft-regierungsziel-13182522
China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a record low birth rate and a wave of COVID deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a ... Show more reut.rs/3vHOKB6
China’s Xi Jinping hails ‘resilient’ economy in bullish New Year speech: President Xi Jinping said Sunday the Chinese economy had grown "more resilient and ...
hongkongfp.com/2024/01/01/chinas-xi-jinping-hails-resilient-economy-in-bullish-new-year-speech/
Can China get its economic miracle back on track in 2024?: China's disappointing post-COVID recovery has raised significant doubts about the foundations of its ...
reuters.com/markets/asia/can-china-get-its-economic-miracle-back-track-2024-2023-12-18/
Thermo Fisher: Downturn In Pharma And Biotech And Weak China Growth; Initiate With 'Hold'
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Paid articlePaid Nepal to destroy 4 million doses of China's Sinovac Covid vaccines as it's not approved for booster shots
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A year after China ended its harsh COVID policies, it's struggling to rebound: A year ago, China lifted its draconian COVID restrictions. Many expected the ...
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China New Year Holiday Travelers Reach Pre-Covid Levels: China recorded over 1.72 million inbound and outbound trips per day during the three-day new year’s ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-02/china-new-year-holiday-travelers-reach-pre-covid-levels
Paid articlePaid #WIONRewind2023 | The year China saw many historic events
Its economy struggled, the country moved past its 'zero-COVID' policy and Xi Jin Ping got a third term in ... Show more wionews.com/videos
Cathay Pacific Cancels Some Year-End Flights Over Pilot Illness: Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. canceled some year-end flights as a precaution after illness ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-28/cathay-pacific-cancels-some-year-end-flights-over-pilot-illness
Paid articlePaid China banks step up sales of bad loans as consumer defaults rise: Chinese banks are putting bad loans up for sale at a record pace, as regulators push for faster ...
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China’s economy is suffering from long covid: Revealing gloom on the streets of an ordinary Chinese city
economist.com/china/2023/11/30/chinas-economy-is-suffering-from-long-covid
#WIONRewind2023 | The year China saw many historic events
Its economy struggled, the country moved past its 'zero-COVID' policy and Xi Jin Ping got a third term in ... Show more wionews.com/videos
China’s middle class does not ‘dare to spend’ until post-Covid economy shows clear signs of recovery
scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3246222/chinas-middle-class-does-not-dare-spend-until-post-covid-economy-shows-clear-signs-recovery
China’s CSI 300 Index Caps Longest Weekly Losing Streak Since 2012: Chinese stocks look poised to end 2023 on a dismal note, belying investors’ high expectations ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-22/china-s-csi-300-index-caps-longest-weekly-losing-streak-since-2012
Can China get its economic miracle back on track in 2024?: China's disappointing post-COVID recovery has raised significant doubts about the foundations of its ...
reuters.com/markets/asia/can-china-get-its-economic-miracle-back-track-2024-2023-12-18/
Japan’s Exports Slip in New Sign Economic Recovery After Covid Is Sputtering: Japan’s exports slipped lower for the first time in three months in November ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-19/japan-s-exports-slip-in-fresh-sign-recovery-is-sputtering
Pfizer Covid Boosters Aren't Strong Enough Against Omicron: Pfizer is struggling because not enough people are getting annual Covid shots ...
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Paid articlePaid How Hong Kong Fell Behind in 2023, With Stocks and IPOs Down, Housing Slowdown: It was supposed to be the year Hong Kong rebounded onto the world stage ...
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Retail sales remain sluggish in China, as world’s second-largest economy confronts ‘difficulties and challenges’
hongkongfp.com/2023/12/15/retail-sales-remain-sluggish-in-china-as-worlds-second-largest-economy-confronts-difficulties-and-challenges/
Mysterious outbreak of "undiagnosed pneumonia" in China | Tiroler Tageszeitung Online
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What China's economy has to do with record gold prices: Gold prices have touched new highs in recent weeks.
axios.com/2023/12/14/gold-prices-record-highs-china
UK COVID inquiry: Boris Johnson says he underestimated threat from virus: British former prime minister Boris Johnson gave his most explicit apology for his ...
reuters.com/world/uk/former-pm-boris-johnson-defend-record-conduct-uk-covid-inquiry-2023-12-06/
Quick Glance: Legacy of Boris Johnson: Impact of Covid Inquiry
- After this week’s Covid inquiry, all doubts about Boris Johnson’s political career are put to rest.
- Hugo Keith KC, counsel to the Covid inquiry, meticulously revealed the former British prime minister's numerous failures.
- During the pandemic, Johnson's negligence, laziness, and systematic deceit, coupled with his repeated boasting of fictitious achievements, are exposed.
- It is inevitable that Johnson will face being shunned after the Covid inquiry.
China's economy is heading deeper into deflation: It could drag down other parts of the global economy with it.
axios.com/2023/12/12/china-economy-deflation-inflation-consumer-prices
Spike in respiratory illnesses in children sparks alarm, but WHO says data not unexpected
oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2023/12/12/spike-in-respiratory-illnesses-in-china-isnt-unexpected-who-says/71879643007/
China’s Weak Trade Data Signals More Economic Pain to Come: China’s imports unexpectedly shrank in November from a Covid-hit period a year ago ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-07/china-s-exports-expand-from-covid-hit-period-a-year-ago
Paid articlePaid Global Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels to Hit Record Peak in 2023: Emissions will be 1.1% higher than in 2022, scientists estimate, despite cuts made by some ...
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Quick Glance: Rise in Fossil Fuel Emissions Revealed in New Report
- Carbon dioxide emissions from oil, gas and coal rose by 1 percent in 2023, as announced at the U.N. climate summit.
- Carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels is expected to rise by 1.1 percent in 2023 compared with 2022, as found in an extensive peer-reviewed analysis published this week.
- Researchers from the Global Carbon Project presented the results at the global climate talks in Dubai, where world leaders are reviewing progress toward the international goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures.
- Fossil fuel emissions have declined in 26 countries that had significant economic growth at the same time over the past decade, including Brazil, Japan, much of the European Union, South Africa and the United States.
Zero-COVID’s Long Tail | by Nancy Qian - Project Syndicate: Nancy Qian considers the lasting economic and social effects of China’s three years of draconian ...
project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-zero-covid-policy-lasting-economic-social-costs-by-nancy-qian-1-2023-11
Global factory inventories up 30% in 4 years as China slows: TOKYO -- Big manufacturers worldwide are struggling to chip away at inventories that accumulated ...
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Paid articlePaid China Job Crisis Pushes Young City Workers to Rural Areas: Gong Chengqiang used to make 200,000 yuan ($28,000) a year in Hangzhou in a tech company before it ...
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After Covid Zero, No Trust for Beijing on Outbreaks: Next China: Hello, this is Allen Wan in Shanghai.
bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-12-01/after-covid-zero-no-trust-for-beijing-on-outbreaks-next-china
China’s economy is suffering from long covid: Revealing gloom on the streets of an ordinary Chinese city
economist.com/china/2023/11/30/chinas-economy-is-suffering-from-long-covid
Mysterious child pneumonia cases spike in parts of Europe as COVID-like surge continues in China
nypost.com/2023/11/29/news/child-pneumonia-cases-spike-in-netherlands-as-surge-in-china/
ByteDance fires hundreds, slashes games arm in major retreat: The pullback is part of post-Covid gaming strategies after failing to gain market share from ...
freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2023/11/27/bytedance-fires-hundreds-slashes-games-arm-in-major-retreat/
Quick Glance: ByteDance Shifts Focus from Gaming
- Chinese tech giant ByteDance is pulling away from video gaming, resulting in hundreds of job cuts.
- The Beijing-based company will shut down Nuverse, its video game studios unit, next month to focus on core businesses.
- ByteDance is also looking for a buyer for Moonton, a video game studio it acquired in 2021 known for 'Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.'
- A ByteDance spokesperson confirmed the difficult decision to restructure its gaming business following a recent review.
Asia Techonomics: The flood of exports from China looms: China's leaders want to become less dependent on the real estate sector. Large overcapacities are now ...
handelsblatt.com/meinung/kolumnen/asia-techonomics-die-exportflut-aus-china-droht/29530842.html
What To Know About Rapidly Spreading ‘Pirola’ Covid Variant BA.2.86—And If Vaccines Offer Protection
forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2023/11/28/what-to-know-about-rapidly-spreading-pirola-covid-variant-ba286-and-if-vaccines-offer-protection/
Illness Surge in China Is Not From a Novel Pathogen, Data Suggests: The W.H.O. had requested detailed information about a reported surge in respiratory illnesses ...
nytimes.com/2023/11/23/world/asia/who-china-respiratory-children.html
Quick Glance: WHO Seeks Details on China's Mystery Outbreak
- The WHO has requested more information from China regarding an outbreak of respiratory illness and clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children.
- Since mid-October, northern China reported an increase in influenza-like illnesses compared with the previous three years.
- The WHO has made an official request to China for additional information and laboratory results from the reported outbreaks among children.
- In the meantime, it has recommended Chinese communities take preventative measures including vaccination, wearing masks, keeping a distance from sick people, staying at home when ill, and regular hand-washing.
What we know so far about surging respiratory illnesses in China: Paris, France Cases of respiratory illnesses have been surging in northern China ...
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#BangkokPost : For three years, China's zero-Covid policy consistently received high-profile media coverage from the Chinese and the international press ... Show more #opinion #China #Covid #Health #business www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2693679/
The surge of respiratory illnesses in China has raised concerns in the international community. Health Usec. Eric Tayag noted that the initial cases were also ... Show more #ANCHeadstart
India is closely monitoring Chinas influenza outbreak amid mild Covid scare: India is closely monitoring Chinas influenza outbreak amid mild Covid scare
wionews.com/india-news/india-is-closely-monitoring-chinas-influenza-outbreak-amid-mild-covid-scare-662356
India: Centre asks states, UTs to be on alert after Chinas influenza outbreak: India: Centre asks states, UTs to be on alert after Chinas influenza outbreak
wionews.com/india-news/india-centre-asks-states-uts-to-be-on-alert-after-chinas-influenza-outbreak-663041
China: Another pneumonia epidemic alarms WHO nearly four years since Covid was first detected
wionews.com/world/china-another-pneumonia-epidemic-alarms-who-nearly-four-years-since-covid-was-first-detected-661753
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