NEW YORK — The Chinese fintech conglomerate Ant Group, known for its digital payments and other online financial services, has just been stopped in its tracks, after Chinese regulators suspended its simultaneous public listing, originally scheduled for November 5, on the Hong Kon

NEW YORK — American voters, who represent about 4 per cent of the world’s population, will soon elect a president whose climate policies will affect not only everyone on Earth today, but also future generations.

NEW YORK — Shortly after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order effectively banning the Chinese-owned social-media app TikTok, he issued a second order prohibiting “any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person...

NEW YORK — Following US President Donald Trump’s vow to block US access to TikTok, the popular short-video app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has been in frantic talks with Microsoft, presumably to sell its subsidiary quickly before the ban goes into effect.Of course, it is

NEW YORK – Back in January, I predicted that the spread of the new COVID-19 coronavirus in China would reach a turning point by the second or third week of February.

NEW YORK — The panic generated by the new coronavirus, 2019-nCov, which originated in Wuhan, one of China’s largest cities and a major domestic transport hub, reminds many of the fear and uncertainty at the peak of the 2003 SARS crisis.

NEW YORK — Opponents of globalisation constantly point to the uneven impact of open trade.

CANBERRA — As Australia heads toward a federal election on Saturday, the national debate on cutting carbon dioxide emissions is heating up. Yet the discussion highlights the limits of what Australia or any other individual country can do to combat global warming.

NEW YORK — China is about to slash the employer contribution rate to the social-security fund from 18-20 per cent, with some variation across regions, to 16 per cent, and cut the value-added tax (VAT) rate from 16 per cent to 13 per cent, for most enterprises.