Ace Security Desk – HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced prominent activist Joshua Wong to 10 more years in prison Thursday under a Beijing-imposed national security law, in a case that critics say underscores the crackdown on the city’s once-thriving pro-democracy movement. Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years in prison […]
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Ace Business Desk – In the heart of London’s financial district, tucked between the Bank of England headquarters and London Bridge, is one of the world’s most influential institutions. The majestic neoclassical building is hard to miss, but few passersby would recognize the ancient coin-inspired logo of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China by […]
Ace Business Desk – China’s Communist Party began its fifth “plenum” on Monday, a four-day meeting of its highest-ranking members, “targeting concrete measures for ‘full and rigorous party self-governance’”, reports Reuters. It says Chinese president Xi Jinping was briefed at the plenum on a draft document that “addressed the challenges the party faced, including growing […]
Ace Breaking News – In short: Kim Jong Un has visited Chinese border city Dandong via the newly opened Yalu River bridge. Beijing and Pyongyang have agreed to expand trade and personnel exchanges after a major logistics bottleneck after years of delays: Reuters News Agency reports: Published: Sun 25 Oct 2026 at 7:12am China remains […]
Ace Business Desk – China has “proposed export controls on 12 technologies used to make solar equipment”, as well as on some fully-assembled solar technologies, reports Reuters Colleen Howe The newswire adds that the restrictions would be placed on technology “used to make some thin wafers, perovskite and tandem solar cells, as well as large-scale […]
Ace Business Desk – In short: China-linked investors are defying federal government orders to divest from a Perth-based rare earths company. Northern Minerals is seen as a key player in efforts by both the US and Australia to break China’s stranglehold on the critical minerals supply chain: By foreign affairs correspondent Stephen Dziedzic Published: Wed 14 […]
Ace News Desk – Protecting the ‘guardians’ of China’s coast with Recent environmental inspections to provinces including Guangdong and Guangxi in southern China flagged challenges with “inadequate” protection of mangroves. In this issue, Carbon Brief examines what challenges China faces in protecting its mangrove forests. The most recent set of China’s environmental inspections concluded at the end of September. The inspections […]
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