6 d. ago Chinese man loses in chess then analyses game for 4 hours in rain

A man lost a match of Chinese chess, then proceeded to review the game for about four hours amid heavy rain in northern China’s Hebei province.

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8 d. ago In under three hours, China’s bullet trains whisk travelers back 1,200 years in time

In under three hours, China’s bullet trains whisk travelers back 1,200 years in time  CNN

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8 d. ago Air China Passengers Spend 13 Hours in Siberia After Engine Trouble

Air China Passengers Spend 13 Hours in Siberia After Engine Trouble  Business Insider

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8 d. ago New US consul general Julie Eadeh arrives in Hong Kong to take up post

Julie Eadeh, the new US consul general for Hong Kong and Macau, has arrived in the city, the US diplomatic service said on Wednesday afternoon. The US consulate general posted on social media that it was “pleased to announce that Julie Eadeh has arrived in Hong Kong, succeeding consul general Greg May, who left Hong Kong last month”. The confirmation came just hours after the South China Morning Post reported her imminent arrival. It also reported in July that Eadeh, a career diplomat who served...

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1 week ago Beijing accuses US of holding Chinese students in ‘small, dark rooms’ for over 70 hours

Beijing accuses US of holding Chinese students in ‘small, dark rooms’ for over 70 hours  South China Morning Post

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1 week ago At record high, China says July electricity use rivals Asean’s annual total

China’s electricity consumption surpassed the 1 trillion kilowatt-hour mark in July, energy authorities said, as scorching heatwaves pushed demand to levels equivalent to the annual usage of all Asean nations combined. Power usage in the country rose 8.6 per cent year on year to reach a historic high of 1.02 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), according to data released by China’s National Energy Administration on Thursday. The level was more than double that of a decade ago and comparable to the...

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2 w. ago China firm slammed for praise of overtime; 1 worker logs 160 extra hours in a month

A company in China has landed itself in hot water for praising employees who work extra hours after it emerged that the longest overtime total for one employee was 160 hours in a month. On August 6, the Yisai e-commerce Company in Shanghai issued a notice of commendation for the overtime performances of its staff. The document soon went viral on mainland social media, the China Youth Daily reported. “After gathering the data of our workers’ clock-off times at the entrance guard system, we found...

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2 w. ago China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday  theregister.com

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3 w. ago Three hours onstage, and an economy moves: Inside China’s concert boom

Three hours onstage, and an economy moves: Inside China’s concert boom  KrASIA

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3 w. ago US, China tariff truce extended; Nvidia deal confirmed: SCMP daily highlights

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Citing China’s ‘significant steps’, Trump extends US tariff truce US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending by 90 days the US’s tariff truce with China, removing the risk of an immediate escalation hours before the ceasefire was set to expire, but leaving trade relations fragile. 2. Trump confirms ‘unprecedented’ deal to let Nvidia...

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3 w. ago China tariffs delayed again, hours before sharp increase was to take hold

China tariffs delayed again, hours before sharp increase was to take hold  The Washington Post

Economics

3 w. ago Citing ‘significant steps’, Trump extends US tariff truce with China

US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order extending by 90 days the US’s tariff truce with China, removing the risk of an immediate escalation hours before the ceasefire was set to expire, but leaving trade relations fragile. In the order released Monday night, Trump said that he took the action because Beijing had taken “significant steps” towards “remedying non-reciprocal trade arrangements and addressing the concerns of the United States relating to economic and national...

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3 w. ago Citing China’s ‘significant steps’, Trump extends US tariff truce

US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order extending by 90 days the US’s tariff truce with China, removing the risk of an immediate escalation hours before the ceasefire was set to expire, but leaving trade relations fragile. In the order released Monday night, Trump said that he took the action because Beijing had taken “significant steps” towards “remedying non-reciprocal trade arrangements and addressing the concerns of the United States relating to economic and national...

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