The Northern Metropolis development strategy proposed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor in her Policy Address last year has become a hot topic, with much of the discussion focusing on whether it can be transformed into a growth engine for Hong Kong’s future development. With the formation of a patriots-only Legislative Council under the […]
Amid the turmoil of the latest omicron outbreak, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has opened additional community isolation centers to provide caregiving for the COVID-19-positive elderly with mild conditions. Simultaneously, arrangements were announced for limited operations for subsidized welfare services, including daycare centers and home-based care. Although additional formal caregiving for the infected […]
Editor's Note: Four decades of reform and opening-up have not only turned China into the world's second-largest economy but also changed its people's way of life. A veteran journalist with China Daily takes a look at Chinese people's changing attitude toward gifts. The Chinese people are finding it increasingly difficult to prepare gifts for friends […]
(LI MIN / CHINA DAILY) The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict is expected to further rock global food markets. Global grain and food prices have already been rising, with the prices of wheat, corn and soybean surging at a rapid pace, because the conflict has affected food production and supply chains. Also, wheat futures prices on the […]
After two years of human devastation, the world is learning to live with COVID-19 while trying to balance the protection of public health and livelihoods. For countries in Asia and the Pacific, this is challenging not only because national coffers are heavily strained by record public spending to mitigate pandemic suffering, but also due to […]
Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 leave a makeshift hospital converted from Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing in Shanghai, China, April 9, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The dynamic clearing policy China has adopted is a scientific approach to fighting the novel coronavirus that is in line with its national conditions. With the […]
To prevent the Ukraine crisis from worsening further and causing more humanitarian suffering, members of the world community should be doing their utmost to push for dialogue between the two belligerent parties so they can reach a negotiated solution. The United States and its allies are doing just the opposite, however. They are constantly adding […]
An employee readies packages ordered on e-commerce platforms at a logistics center in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, in December. (WANG CHUN / FOR CHINA DAILY) The central authorities on Sunday released a guideline on accelerating the building of a unified domestic market that is open, highly efficient, rules-based, and fair for all competitors. The document, jointly […]
HONG KONG, April 12, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) – XanPay is proud to announce AsiaVape has partnered with them to enable Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) for its consumers across Asia; simplifying cross-border payment acceptance, enabling them to access nearly a billion consumers who use these APMs. In Southeast Asia, where most of AsiaVape’s customer’s reside, alternative payment methods are […]
Former security chief and chief secretary for administration Mr John Lee Ka-chiu is a very strong candidate, not because he has held a variety of jobs in the government so he knows the ins and outs of the government better than anyone else, but because he has demonstrated strong leadership, devotion and a sharp sense […]
Since the very early stages of the introduction of the internet, parents have been worried about how the ubiquity of online pornography will impact their children. Though the idea is not supported by data (estimates suggest that only about 4 percent of the 1 million most-visited sites are sex-related), it is not difficult to understand […]
The US Federal Reserve has been resorting to drastic measures, including cutting interest rates to zero and launching unlimited quantitative easing, to revive the US economy following the COVID-19 pandemic. Since these measures have, among other things, led to the continuous rise in inflation in the United States, the Fed has to raise interest rates […]
The coming election of the next chief executive (CE) will have the most long-term ramifications on the future prosperity and stability of Hong Kong in this precarious time when Hong Kong is caught in the middle of the Sino-US rivalry. It should be understood that without stability, it is hard for prosperity to take hold […]
A man walks past the US Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) A lot has changed since December last year, as inflation, job growth and wages have roared ahead at a faster pace than the US Federal Reserve expected. Indeed, if not for the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its uncertain ramifications […]
Editor's note: The US Federal Reserve makes decisions with the sole aim of boosting the US economy. By doing so, the Fed disrupts the international financial systems and causes immense harm to developing countries, including Asia's emerging economies. Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily. (MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY) The […]
The United States only pays lip service to human rights. When it comes to the crunch, it is pious words that are forthcoming not practical deeds. This is exactly the case with regard to the refugees fleeing the fighting in Ukraine. It goes without saying that Washington should not shirk its responsibility for the Ukrainian […]
Photo taken on April 9, 2022 shows the exterior view of a makeshift hospital converted from the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) in East China's Shanghai. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The goal of the country's COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control efforts is that they should have the maximum effect at the minimum cost of lives […]
With the international community in danger of separating along the fault line of drastically different visions of the world order, the geopolitical landscape may become more difficult for Beijing to navigate without timely, efficient strategic communication to mitigate, if not dispel, increasing strategic distrust. Since the start of Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, Beijing […]
According to political scientist Ma Ngok, Hong Kong’s chief executive in theory exercises greater power domestically than popularly elected presidents in 33 countries. But there is a great gap between theory and practice. For a long period in the past 25 years, the Legislative Council has acted in a way that put far greater constraints […]
From Beijing’s perspective, the next five years are crucial for the successful implementation of “one country, two systems” and Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability. This is because Hong Kong is bound to confront a plethora of grim challenges coming from inside and outside which would pose severe tests for both Beijing and the Hong Kong […]
A man wears a face mask as he walks in Piccadilly Circus, in London on Oct 19, 2021. (ALBERTO PEZZALI / AP) We’re living in two realities: one in which people have returned to living life as if COVID is over, and the other in which we are approaching record levels of infections, with an […]
The Chinese economy has been growing rapidly over the past decades. The country’s per capita GDP reached $12,551 in 2021, approaching the threshold for a high-income country, which, as set by the World Bank and the United Nations, stands at $12,695. While aiming for high-quality development in the next stage, the country should stimulate innovation, […]
Sustainable development is the soul of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, which celebrated its sixth anniversary on March 23. From economic development to public health, from agricultural cooperation to international poverty reduction, from water resources to the digital economy, and from green development to education cooperation, Lancang-Mekong Cooperation has made substantial achievements, and the Lancang-Mekong Sustainable Development Zone […]
The Saindak Copper-Gold Mine is the first large-scale modern non-ferrous mine in Pakistan. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) China’s historical relations with Muslims date back to the time of the Islamic Khilafah, or Caliphate, in which the ancient Silk Road was a key factor, and the revival of historical links between them today under the […]
Ambassador Xue Bing, the newly appointed Chinese envoy for the Horn of Africa, has concluded his inaugural visit to the region, a trip that took him to Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda and Somalia. The diplomat’s mission was meant to gauge the reception for China’s proposed outlook on peace and development in Horn of […]
Climate change is impacting every part of the world now. Last year saw a record number of climate-induced weather disasters — from forest fires, droughts and heat waves to floods in Europe and China — that affected more than 3.4 billion people, or 40 percent of the global population. The need for real, lasting climate […]
The African Union Summit held in Ethiopia in February this year declared 2022 the Year of Nutrition, shining a much-needed spotlight on an issue that has long troubled the continent. Malnutrition is a big challenge for Africa, where many people do not have enough food or do not take the right amounts of the correct […]
When Russia announced the discovery of 26 bio-laboratories in Ukraine and said these were aided and operated by the US Department of Defense, many astute observers globally would naturally have realized that the United States was back at its old game. Instead of answering questions about those laboratories, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was […]
It was interesting to watch the White House desperately trying to undo what its master had said — that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power”. Earlier, Hunter Biden, son of the US president, was revealed to be involved in Ukrainian biological laboratories. On March 25 — the day before President Joe Biden, in […]
Josep Borrell, vice-president of the European Commission and high representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, was not only undiplomatic but wrong in calling the China-EU Summit on April 1 a "dialogue of the deaf" when addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. A career politician, Borrell seems to have just […]