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Chinese banks stumble on Beijing's consumer lending push
Yahoo Finance
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese banks are struggling to comply with new Beijing guidelines to boost consumer credit as they reel from a surge of defaults on personal loans and have a hard time finding households in good financial shape that want to...
China offers to help resolve Thailand, Cambodia border dispute
The Gazette - Colorado
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China urged Cambodia and Thailand to resolve their border dispute through friendly dialogue, offering to play a constructive role by upholding an "objective and fair" position, its foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
China's Economy Likely Grew 5.2% In Q2 Despite Trade War: AFP Poll
International Business Times
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July 11, 2025
China's economy is expected to have expanded more than five percent in the second quarter thanks to strong exports, analysts say, but they warned Donald Trump's trade war could cause a sharp slowdown in the final six months. The world's...
China fighting multi-front battle to sustain economic growth
Hurriyet Daily News
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BEIJING The Chinese economy is fighting a multi-front battle to sustain growth, a challenge made more difficult by the U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign. The world's second-largest economy is expected to have expanded more than 5...
China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars
The Register
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China’s largest car rental operator, Car Inc., now rents autonomous cars. The company, also known as “Zuche”, is using cars from Chinese tech giant Baidu for the service. China’s government let Baidu’s “Apollo” cars hit the road in 2021, albeit in...
Chinese premier returns to Beijing after official visit to Egypt
China Internet Information Center
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BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang returned to Beijing on Friday aboard a chartered plane after concluding an official visit to Egypt. Li was seen off from the airport by the Egyptian Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade...
China’s yuan inches higher on firmer PBOC guidance even as dollar rises
Business Recorder
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July 11, 2025
SHANGHAI: China’s yuan inched higher against the dollar on Friday, as the central bank set a much stronger guidance fix, in what investors interpreted as an official sign to keep the currency stable following US President Donald Trump’s new wave...
China consolidates poverty alleviation achievements in five-year transitional period: report
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- China has made continuous efforts to consolidate and expand its poverty alleviation achievements in a five-year transitional period after the country, in February 2021, solemnly declared a complete victory in...
China crackdown on gay erotica stifles rare outlet for LGBTQ expression
Global Village Space
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July 11, 2025
Chinese women who publish homoerotica online say they are being threatened with fines and jail time, as increasing enforcement of vague obscenity charges targets a rare space for LGBTQ identity and feminism. In recent months, Chinese police have...
China dismisses UK's $800m 'Chinese spying' probe claim as 'smear' and 'groundless accusation'
Global Times
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun. Photo: Chinese Foreign Ministry When asked to comment on a UK report which alleged that Chinese spying has risen in recent years and Foreign Minister David Lammy has told parliament that his...
China urges US to stop sending wrong signals to separatist forces advocating 'Xizang independence' following Rubio's birthday greeting to 14th Dalai Lama
Global Times
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Chinese FM spokesperson Mao Ning In response to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's latest birthday greeting to the 14th Dalai Lama and relevant remarks on Xizang-related affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday...
China, Malaysia to implement mutual visa-free policy agreement on Jul 17
People's Daily Online
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China and Malaysia will implement a mutual visa-free policy agreement beginning July 17, 2025, according to an announcement published Thursday on a consular services account affiliated with China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Under the agreement,...
China's Chang'e-7 to carry a seismograph, 2026 launch targeted
CGTN
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China's Chang'e-7 lunar mission, expected to launch around 2026, will be equipped with a seismograph to study moonquakes and probe the lunar interior, according to Wu Fuyuan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a leading...
Chinese FM spokesperson responds to French intelligence claims regarding Chinese embassies sowing doubts over Rafale jets
Global Times
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Chinese FM spokesperson responds to French intelligence claims regarding Chinese embassies sowing doubts over Rafale jets By Global Times Published: Jul 07, 2025 04:49 PM Chinese FM spokesperson Mao Ning In response to a reporter's question about...
China: Work injury insurance programme to cover new occupations
Asia Insurance Review
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China has expanded its occupational injury insurance programme to cover more workers engaged in new forms of employment according to a news report by news agency Xinhua. The ministry of human resources and social security said in a statement that...
China blows up 300 dams, shuts hydropower stations to save Yangtze River habitat
South China Morning Post
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July 11, 2025
China has demolished 300 dams and shut down most of the small hydropower stations on a major tributary of the upper Yangtze River to safeguard fish populations as part of an effort to restore the ecology of Asia’s longest waterway. According to a...
China's exports likely provided strong support to the economy in the second quarter but analysts were cautious about the outlook for the final six months of the year
KTBS 3 - Louisiana
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July 11, 2025
China's economy is expected to have expanded more than five percent in the second quarter thanks to strong exports, analysts say, but they warned Donald Trump's trade war could cause a sharp slowdown in the final six months.
China enforces unified reporting and sales in non-auto insurance sector
Asia Insurance Review
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China's financial regulator is stepping up efforts to rein in disorderly competition in the non-auto insurance market, issuing a draft circular aimed at enforcing stricter adherence to pre-approved policy terms and pricing-known as the 'unified...
China's export growth expected to edge up in June amid delicate truce with US: Reuters poll
Yahoo Finance
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By Ethan Wang and Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China's export growth likely edged higher in June, buoyed by exporters rushing to front-load shipments on fears that a fragile trade truce with the United States could unravel and see President Donald...
China's Patience Wears Thin With EU Over Medical Device Row
MENAFN
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July 11, 2025
Latest stories China's gold hoarding: a bad omen for the dollar It's time for a US Indo-Pacific reset Setting the pace: The future of regenerative agriculture in China “There is no fundamental conflict between China and the EU, but rather...