Fantasia is struggling to cope with the dying real estate in China
On Dec.3, The Paper reported that the leading property developer “Fantasia Group” is experiencing liquidity difficulties. They have officially canceled the transaction in the North China region. This seems to be the last gasp for them. Recently, in his farewell letter on the Internet, Huo Yong, president of the North China ...
‘Humanized Pigs’: The cruel new experiment announced by the Chinese regime to ‘study coronavirus’
Through its propaganda arm Global Times, the Chinese regime announced the development of a process to create "humanized pigs" to then infect them with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) coronavirus and investigate their immune responses, Breitbart reported. As presented by the Chinese media, the controversial experiment is under development at the ...
London High Court: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US
The UK High Court ruled Friday, Dec. 10, that Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to stand trial for espionage. They overturned a lower court ruling earlier this year that blocked his extradition on defense arguments alleging Assange's fragile mental health. However, if subjected to a high-security ...
China again ranked as the country with the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) again labeled China's communist regime as the world's largest jailer of journalists for the third consecutive year. The organization called 2021 "a particularly bleak year for press freedom advocates." As the controversial Winter Olympic Games in Beijing loom and international criticism for the absence of ...
Chinese spokesman: Regime would attack U.S. military if it defends Taiwan
After the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan supported Taiwan by declaring that his country would ensure that a seizure of the island "never happens," an official spokesman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued a strong reaction. The Global Times, which produces the CCP's propaganda, stated that the Chinese army "will ...
Italy: Amazon to pay $1.3 billion for its ‘abusive strategy’ against competitors
The Italian antitrust body, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) fined Amazon $1.3 billion, one of the largest fines in a European country, for abusing its competitors in violation of existing legislation. "The abusive strategy adopted by Amazon is particularly serious, since it is likely to discourage, if not ...
Seven countries officially join a diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
By Dec. 8, Seven countries, including the United States, Lithuania, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Scotland, and New Zealand, had officially announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. 1. The UK Boris Johnson, The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced that Britain would boycott the diplomacy of the Beijing Winter Olympics. They ...
Evergrande to restructure all offshore public bonds amid debt crisis
According to Sound of Hope, China’s debt-laden Evergrande property group plans to restructure its offshore public bonds and private debt. The change was China’s most remarkable asset restructuring of all time. Evergrande announced that it had encountered difficulties paying a $260 million guaranteed offshore bond on Dec. 3. The company still ...
International tribunal: CCP’s top official responsible for Xinjiang ‘genocide’
Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping and other top officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bore primary responsibility for the “genocide, crimes against humanity and torture against Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minority citizens” in Xinjiang—declared the Uighur Tribunal on Thursday, according to Reuters. In recent years, over a million people, ...
Jiangxi official in China arrested for supporting crypto mining
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate reported that Xiao Yi, the former Vice Chairman of the Political Consultative Conference of Jiangxi Province, was suspected of receiving bribes and abusing power on Dec. 7. Investigation files were turned over to prosecutors for review and prosecution. A few days ago, a wanted order was issued. ...
Chinese civil servants going through continuous pay cuts in various provinces and cities
Officials in many provinces and cities in China have continuously received pay-cut announcements this month. The cuts range from 20% to 30%. The first provinces to suffer from the cut were Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, Shanghai. A female civil servant in Zhejiang has filed an online appeal since her annual ...
Unusual signal: State-run newspaper warns of difficult times ahead for China
On the Facebook page of Xie Jinhe, the chairman of Caixin Media, Xie Jinhe discussed the recent comments of Li Daokui in the Hong Kong Economic Review on Dec.4. Economist Li Daokui pointed out that the next few years will be the most challenging period for the Chinese economy since ...
China: November real estate trade sinks to the lowest mark in 10 years
China's Zhongxin Jingwei media posted on Dec. 7 that E-House Real Estate Research Institute has released the New Commercial Housing Transactions Report for November 2021. In November, 40 cities, including big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, sold a total volume ...
Xi Jinping demands inspection of 6 gambling VIP rooms in Macau
The recent arrest of a Macao liquor tycoon, Zhou Zhuohua, on Nov. 27 keeps Macau's gambling industry on its toes. According to Caixin.com, there are 6 VIP rooms in Macau's gaming intermediary industry. In addition to Sun City's involvement in the case, the other five are the Dejin Group of Chen Ronglian and Ji Xiaobo, Sheng Group, Guangdong ...
Leonard, predicted to be the brightest comet of 2021 is ‘behaving’ strangely
Most comets are brightest as they approach the sun at the shortest distance. However, sky lovers will find it hard to capture any comet at that moment because the sun's glare and horizon conceal them. Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) is perhaps an exception to the rule. The 'story' behind Comet Leonard Comet ...
How a missing phone on a flight could precipitate a disaster
There are simple events that might cause tremendous unanticipated outcomes. Such could come from a common incident where a small and thin smartphone slipped away from its owner into a tricky corner, especially during a flight. A passenger on a Qantas flight to Melbourne in 2018 fell into such a situation. His ...
Manzhouli High School sends all teachers and students to watch CCP ‘patriotic movies,’ 114 get COVID-19 disease
A severe COVID-19 pandemic has recently broken out in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, China, according to NTD. Ninety-nine students and 15 teachers were among the 319 confirmed cases in Manzhouli City. A student at Manzhouli Vocational High School told the press that on Nov. 26, the school organized for all its teachers and ...
Chinese-African Cooperation Forum a failure: African leaders do not trust Chinese regime
Dr. Xie Tian, professor at University of South Carolina Aiken, USA, analized this year's Chinese-African Cooperation Forum held in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, a country in West Africa, in an article published in Chinese-language media Da Ji Yuan. Compared to previous times, the scale of this forum was smaller. ...
Former Chief Justice of Dalian Intermediate Court Zhou Yan was involved in 196 unjust cases
According to Minghui.org, while Zhou Yan was in charge as Chief Justice of the Intermediate Court of Dalian City, 196 Falun Gong practitioners were unjustly convicted, of which 52 were sentenced to more than five years in prison. Zhou Yan served as Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee ...
The CCP jails founder of Apple Daily Jimmy Lai along with other human rights activists
Jimmy Lai, the founder of the pro-democracy and anti-communist newspaper Apple Daily, was sentenced to prison by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Journalists Gwyneth Ho and lawyer Chow Hang-tung were also convicted as leading human rights activists in China. A Hong Kong court convicted the three pro-democracy activists on Thursday, Dec. ...
