Hard-disk manufacturer Seagate to cut more than 2,000 China jobs – reports
US hard-disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technology will lay off more than 2,000 Chinese workers as it shutters a factory in eastern China, reports said Saturday, prompting anger among employees. The...
View ArticleChina’s ban on domestic ivory trade is huge, but the battle isn’t won
By Ross Harvey, South African Institute of International Affairs China has published a notice that the processing and sale of ivory and ivory products “will be stopped by December 31, 2017”. China’s...
View ArticleThe importance of being possessive: A run-in with Hang Seng Bank
I hesitate to write this story because even now, though it happened to me, I can hardly believe it is true. Still it did happen. I am not making this up, OK? The other day I found on my desk a cheque...
View ArticleWho will stop Hong Kong’s coming Cultural Revolution?
Let me narrate the development of protests in Hong Kong since the pro-democracy Occupy protests of 2014. I wrote about what was happening at the time. Now in 2017, as Hong Kong’s imminent Cultural...
View ArticleVideo: Where will they go? To Kwa Wan’s unique culture threatened by...
By Maggie Suen, Verena Tse, Ryan Li, Cindy Gu For years, To Kwa Wan was a working-class residential and commercial urban area in Kowloon. Many of the buildings are relatively low-rise due to the...
View ArticleChinese wonder if smog is blackening their lungs, as it is high-speed trains
By Jack Hu China welcomed 2017 with a thick, lasting smog, souring many people’s mood for the new year. Public discontent over the severe pollution hanging over northern China for nearly two weeks has...
View Article‘There is only one China in the world’: Beijing warns Donald Trump Taiwan...
Beijing on Saturday warned the US that the One China policy was non-negotiable, after Donald Trump suggested he could abandon the decades-old diplomatic principle and boost ties with Taiwan. “It is...
View ArticleIf you can’t beat pollution, cut reporting: Beijing gov’t boosts control over...
For weeks now, cities across China have been shrouded in hazardous clouds of haze. It’s an issue that hits people where it counts. Can their kids breathe normally at school? Is smog knocking precious...
View ArticleJournalists must raise their voices, says prize winner from Afghan news...
When a targeted Taliban suicide bombing cost them seven employees and left 17 others wounded a year ago, TOLO News staff thought many of their colleagues would abandon their posts. But one year on,...
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