ASIA: A Hong Kong court on Friday increased a jail sentence to five years, in line with a China-imposed national security law, for a student who called for independence from China in posts on the Telegram messaging service. He has been in detention since September 2020, after police raided his flat and found a pepper
Spread the lovemore ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 284.64 points or 1.07% to 27,001.98 Shanghai closed Hang Seng increased 252.18 points or 1.07% to 23,802.26 ASX 200 decreased 16.50 points or -0.24% to 6,971.60 Kospi closed SENSEX increased 813.94 points or 1.42% to 58,014.17 Nifty50 […]
Spread the lovemore ASIA: China’s factory activity unexpectedly picked up in November, growing for the first time in three months as the crippling surge in raw material prices and power rationing eased, taking some pressure off the manufacturing sector. The official manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 50.1 in November from 49.2 in October, […]
Spread the love ASIA: Japan’s economy likely shrank over the summer as a Covid surge and supply bottlenecks slammed an already feeble recovery, according to estimates by several economists just two days before the nation goes to the polls. The economy likely contracted by 1.1% on an annualized basis in the three months to September, Yoshiki […]
ASIA: Goldman Sachs cut China's growth forecast to 7.8 percent this year from the previously estimated 8.2 percent, as the world's second largest economy faces