When the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s largest bank by asset size, started to auction 657 million yuan (US$101.5 million) of its non-performing assets in six tranches on Monday, it drew strong interest from bad loan dispos...
Japan has announced plans to develop a new generation of diplomats and experts with the skills required to head international bodies, amid fears it is losing out to China and South Korea – whose citizens have been considered for top roles in the United...
The Japanese government has requested China not to subject Japanese citizens entering the country to anal Covid-19 tests after receiving complaints of “psychological distress” from some of them, the top government spokesman said Monday.Chief Cabinet Se...
One dreams of Hong Kong street food, but in a nightmare finds himself cornered by authorities in the city’s airport.A fellow activist mourns a grandmother whose Hong Kong grave she may never visit.And a teenager wonders shyly whether the friend he left...
Emergency services were called to local beauty spot Ardreigh Lock outside Athy.
Soon after Joe Biden was elected US president, Beijing began talking up the possibility of renegotiating the so-called phase one trade deal it agreed with Washington last year, but observers say that might be easier said than done.Chinese Foreign Minis...
The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper has hit back at a motion passed by the Canadian parliament last week that said Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang constituted genocide, claiming that the label applied to Canada’s past treatment of its own i...