4 d. ago US Clears Path for Nvidia to Sell H200s to China Via New Rule

US Clears Path for Nvidia to Sell H200s to China Via New Rule  Bloomberg.com

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1 week ago Beijing puts 2 more serving Taiwanese cabinet ministers on sanctions list

Beijing has added Taiwan’s interior minister and education minister to its sanctions list of “stubborn Taiwan independence figures” for behaviours it said undermined cross-strait relations and promoted Taiwan independence. Chen Binhua, spokesman for Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), said at a press conference on Wednesday that the interior minister Liu Shyh-fang and education minister Cheng Ying-yao had been designated as “stubborn Taiwan independence figures”. Liu and Cheng are cabinet...

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1 week ago Beijing puts 2 more Taiwanese cabinet ministers on sanctions list

Beijing has added Taiwan’s interior minister and education minister to its sanctions list of “stubborn Taiwan independence figures” for behaviour it said undermined cross-strait relations and promoted Taiwan independence. Chen Binhua, spokesman for Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), said on Wednesday that Interior Minister Liu Shyh-fang and Education Minister Cheng Ying-yao had been designated as “stubborn Taiwan independence figures”. Liu and Cheng are cabinet members in William Lai...

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3 w. ago Clip of 3 hikers scaling slope at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park goes viral

A video circulating online showing hikers scaling a section of a mountain connected to Hong Kong’s Ocean Park has prompted safety concerns. The video from December 23, which appears to have been taken from a cable car at the park, shows three hikers climbing along a giant seahorse carved into the side of Brick Hill. The identities of the hikers and how they accessed the slope were not immediately clear. The side of the mountain appeared rugged and steep with no clear path. At least one of the...

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3 w. ago Japan's Cabinet approves record defense budget aiming to deter China as tensions grow

Japan's Cabinet approves record defense budget aiming to deter China as tensions grow  PBS

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3 w. ago Cabinet aims to tighten rules on lawmaker, civil servant China visits

Cabinet aims to tighten rules on lawmaker, civil servant China visits  Focus Taiwan

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3 w. ago China’s cabinet clears path for VAT law to take effect next month

The State Council has approved draft regulations for implementing China’s new value-added tax (VAT) law, which is aimed at governing the country’s largest source of tax revenue and set to come into effect early next year. The regulations, released for public consultation in August and approved on Friday, give detailed rules for enforcing the VAT law. Approval by the cabinet signals the regulations are moving closer to finalisation ahead of the law’s expected implementation. The VAT law was...

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