... sks,” the central bank chief added. The comments came as a private industry survey suggested that Japan’s factory activity contracted at the sharpest pace in seven years in February, heightening worri ...More
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Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, said it has started testing its proposed “e-krona”, taking the world’s least cash-dependent country a step closer to creating the first central bank digital curren ...More
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... ng Kong's central business district, owning numerous Grade-A commercial buildings including iconic properties such as Landmark, Charter House, Exchange Square and Alexandra House. Now, its big bet in ...More
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... ed across central China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, might be asking: "When is our turn to be brought home?" Among the Hongkongers trapped in Hubei are 10 confirm ...More
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... cials and central bankers from the world’s 20 largest economies (G20) in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Saturday and Sunday. China said on Wednesday that it is not sending senior central bank and finan ...More
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... ve in the central bank’s medium-term lending rate on Monday as policymakers sought to ease the drag to businesses from the coronavirus outbreak. The LPR is a lending reference rate set monthly by 18 b ...More
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The coronavirus outbreak has created conflicts between central and local government officials in China. One major point of contention is the pace of resumption of work at businesses that were ordered ...More
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While the government has started evacuating hundreds of Hong Kong passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, thousands of Hong Kong citizens stranded in central China's ...More
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... ed in the central city of Daegu. On Wednesday, Shincheonji Church posted a statement on its website confirming that 10 of its members were infected by a woman who had attended services. -- Contact us ...More
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... nk of the central bank’s inflation target, the report noted. "Participants generally saw the distribution of risks to the outlook for economic activity as somewhat more favorable than at the previous ...More
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... ed in the central Hubei province late last year. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in a blog post that China’s economy will bounce back quickly if the disruptions ...More
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... y for the central authorities to announce the postponement of the “two sessions”, their worries have lifted. On the other hand, some local NPC and CPPCC delegates complained that the Liaison Office ha ...More
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... ce in the central-eastern part of China. Much of the world now links that area with the infection. But the virus does not target any particular ethnic group or nationality – it can hit all human being ...More
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... y Hall in Central on Feb. 9 for about an hour. They were all wearing face masks at the time, but still, authorities were trying to trace her contacts to see whether they have symptoms, Chuang said. Th ...More
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... e party’s Central Committee. The five entities’ US operations will have to disclose their personnel rosters and hiring and firing decisions and register properties in the United States that they rent ...More
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... se beyond central Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan. The WHO’s Mike Ryan said China had success with “putting out the fire” first in Hubei and ensuring that people returning to Beijing from the Lu ...More
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... apital of central China's Hubei province and the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak. According to the press release, the target beneficiaries of the face masks include low-income patients and their ca ...More
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... al of the central Hubei province. As in the case of Li’s death, there was confusion on the Chinese internet about Liu’s condition on Monday night. The Communist Party propaganda department of the Hube ...More
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... European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has warned that a cyberattack on European financial markets could cost US$645 billion. And security officials have expressed similar concerns about t ...More
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