The People’s Bank of China, is making improvements in the supervision of the financial institutions, that carry systemic importance in China’s financial system. The People’s Bank Of China is aiming to improve supervision, prevent systemic risks, and maintain performance of the financial system. An astronomical science base was opened called the Ngari Observatory, located in Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region…. Read more »
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has called the South Korean Supreme Court ruling extremely regrettable and totally unacceptable. South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate Korean men who say they were forced to work in factories in Japan during World War Two. Kono said in his statement on Thursday that the ruling obviously… Read more »
Xie said Trump’s decision to withdraw hurt the confidence and resolution of many other countries, but its impact was now beginning to wane, and China’s own commitments to clean, low-carbon development were unbending. China has already met a target to cut carbon intensity – the amount of CO2 emissions per unit of economic growth – by 40-45 percent from 2005… Read more »
HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) – China’s genetically-edited embryos are crying out to regulators. Shocking claims by a scientist who says he altered the genes of twin girls born in November have sparked a firestorm. Clearer guidelines are needed. He Jiankui, a Stanford-trained researcher, stunned the world when he claimed that he had successfully edited babies’ genomes in attempt to make… Read more »
The government of Papua New Guinea is under fire for its lack of attention to a tuberculosis epidemic. The deadly disease affects one in 250 citizens and spreading. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) says PNG is in the top ten for countries most affected by tuberculosis. Specifically, the Western Province’s capital city of Daru has been declared a… Read more »
The Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically-edited babies defended the highly controversial procedure Wednesday, but announced a halt to the trial following an international outcry. He Jiankui told a packed Hong Kong biomedical conference he was “proud” to have successfully altered the DNA of twin girls born to an HIV-positive father, an apparent medical breakthrough. But details of… Read more »
In recent online videos, geneticist He Jiankui defended his recent achievement of embryonic gene editing, which he used on baby twin girls infected with HIV to protect them from the development of AIDS. This experimentation has caused alarm throughout the Chinese scientific community after investigations suggest that its ethical approval may have been forged. In an open letter, over 100… Read more »
Concerns are growing about the spread of tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where more than one in 250 people are believed to have been infected by the disease. Providing treatment for the curable bacterial infection that most often affects the lungs, also known as TB, is especially hard in rural PNG, where access and transport to medical facilities is a major… Read more »
US President Donald Trump has said he expected to raise punitive tariff rates on hundreds of billions in Chinese imports as early as January 1, 2019. Just days before a planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump also vowed to put tariffs on all remaining imports from China if the two sides failed to reach a deal, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump… Read more »
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the testing of a “newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon”, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday, in a move that will raise the temperature over denuclearisation talks. It marked the first official report of a weapons test by North Korea since it began a delicate diplomatic process with Washington over its nuclear and missile programme. “Kim Jong Un…… Read more »