Hong Kong police have arrested a former pro-democracy member of the city’s District Council and prison welfare activist — amid calls for a boycott of… Read More »Police arrest former opposition councilor amid call to boycott poll
KEY TAKEAWAYS The rise in Treasury yields led to a rise in mortgage rates, which resulted in a selloff in homebuilder stocks If Apple’s stock… Read More »In this Market, Think Supply and Demand; Is Apple a Buy on this Dip?
Andrea Binder is a Freigeist fellow and research group leader at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and the author… Read More »BRICS hypocrisy on offshore reform
Seeking to promote its rosy narrative about the peace and prosperity enjoyed by majority-Muslim Uyghurs in the far-western region of Xinjiang, China earlier this month… Read More »Major Muslim group buys into China’s narrative of happy Uyghurs in a stable Xinjiang
The market’s worsening breadth and the lack of a robust bounce on 8/18/23, even as bond yields reversed course after their runaway freight train climb… Read More »Bonds Toy with Secular Bear Market — Was That the Top in Housing Stocks? Maybe Yes, Maybe No.
Tenzin Younten wanted Tibetans living in the diaspora in Darjeeling, India, to speak in their native language. So, the 19-year-old rapper wrote a song about… Read More »Tibetan rappers gain popularity among diaspora with songs about ethnic identity
Ordos, China – A Japanese entrepreneur who once taught in a school in China’s Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region has spent the past two decades helping… Read More »Former teacher tackles desertification in China’s Inner Mongolia
Just a few hundred people of Chinese heritage still live in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown. Many have been pushed out to cheaper and safer areas. Noah… Read More »In Chinatowns across the U.S., tradition and history collide with luxury development
The Micron Technology Inc. offices in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. Micron, the US … [+] chipmaker that’s facing a cybersecurity review by… Read More »Micron Probe May Hurt China’s Efforts To Attract Foreign Investment
The “Harry Potter” series once cast a spell over an entire generation of young readers and moviegoers, but now that the global franchise’s most anticipated… Read More »Hogwarts versus transgender rights, Blizzard versus Beijing
