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  • China’s Bridge to North Korea Opens 3 Years After it Was Built

     

    Source: scmp.comChina and North Korea have finally opened a border bridge built between the two countries in 2016, in a potential boost to the North’s economy as Beijing tries to balance its concerns about its neighbour against ongoing international pressure for it to denuclearise.A border checkpoint and bridge connecting the Chinese city of Jian with North Korea’s Manpo were open on Monday, following three years of delays since they were built.Four buses crossed the border from North Korea in

  • Man up on Your Health : It’s Time for You to Get A Checkup

     

    The International Women's Day has passed, and men's health gains increasing concern from society. Due to the traditional concepts, people lack attention on men's health problems, and the psychological pressure on men and the health costs they pay are often ignored by society.Nowadays, under the life pressure, shouldering family responsibilities, more and more men are graduately losing the wealth of health. In order to make a living, many men are forced to choose an unhealthy lifestyl

  • Sleeping Chinese Man Robbed of $1,800: Facial Recognition Fail

     

    Source: scmp.comA facial recognition system failed to protect a Chinese man from a pair of sneak thieves who managed to unlock his phone while he was sleeping and steal his life savings of more 12,000 yuan (US$1,800), according to a local television news report.The man from Zhejiang province, identified only as Yuan, contacted the police on Tuesday after noticing the money had disappeared from his bank account, the report said.Following an investigation, officers charged Yuan’s two roommates wi

  • Another Passenger Arrested for Throwing Coins at Plane's Engine

     

    Source: newsbreakinglive.comXia was detained for endangering passenger safety for 10 days in Wuhan, while his wife continued to Urumqi with their daughter.The engine of an aircraft would be severely damaged or even destroyed if a coin is sucked into it, according to a professor at Civil Aviation University of China cited by China Daily in a previous report.'The engine could tremble, lose speed and even stop in mid-air if a coin were sucked into its core,' he said. 'That would put all

  • China's Reserves, The Worlds Largest Rises Further

     

    Source: thestar.comChina's foreign exchange reserves rose for a fifth straight month in March, with the increase exceeding expectations, as growing optimism about the prospects for a U.S.-China trade deal offset concerns over slowing economic growth.Chinese reserves, the world's largest, rose by nearly $9 billion in March to $3.099 trillion, its highest since August last year, central bank data showed on Sunday.Economists polled by Reuters had expected reserves would rise $5 billion to $

  • China Refuses to Give up ‘Developing Country’ Status at WTO

     

    Source: scmp.comChina will refuse to give up the “special and differential treatment” it enjoys as a developing nation at the World Trade Organisation, in a rebuke to a US proposal that would pare back the privileges China and other nations enjoy on trade.China is categorised as a developing country at the Geneva-based institution, which affords it “special and differential treatment”. This enables China to provide subsidies in agriculture and set higher barriers to market entry than more de

  • What Caused 25,000 Vietnamese Migrants to ‘Disappear’ in Taiwan?

     

    Source: scmp.comIn 2011, Maitook out a loan of US$6,300 – more than 10 times her annual salary at a factory producing chips for Samsung phones in northernVietnam. For that money, a broker found her a job at an electronics factory in Taichung in centralTaiwan.She left behind her two sons and husband, a farmer nearly blind in one eye, because the broker told her that with overtime she could earn US$1,000 per month.But no one told her about all the fees, taxes and living costs she would face; that

  • Chinese Workers Freed from Big Brother Style Monitoring

     

    Source: thestar.comA company in eastern China which used smart bracelets to monitor its sanitation workers while they were on the job has dumped the policy after a public outcry.Nanjing West River Environmental Services in Jiangsu province started requiring some of its workers to wear the smart bracelets in March.The devices sent out alerts saying “please continue working, add oil!” if there was no movement from the wearer for more than 20 minutes.The phrase “add oil” is a popular Chinese ex

  • China Told to Back Off From Disputed Island

     

    Source:thestar.comManila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned Beijing to back off from a disputed island in the South China Sea, warning of possible military action if China “touches” it amid rising tensions over the key waterway.Duterte, aiming to attract trade and investment from the Asian superpower, has mostly withheld his early criticism of Beijing’s expansive claims to the sea – a point of regional contention because trillions of dollars of goods pass through it.But as the

  • Over Concerns, Hong Kong Introduces Revised Extradition Laws

     

    Hong Kong introduced revised extradition laws before the legislature Wednesday despite concerns they would allow suspects to be sent to face torture and unfair trials in mainland China.The amended Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance were heard before the Legislative Council and now head toward passage at a later date.Business, legal, human rights and journalists groups have expressed concern over the proposed changes, saying they will damage

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