Shanghai Is Hit by Strongest Typhoon in Decades and Comes to a Standstill
Typhoon Bebinca, the strongest storm to hit Shanghai since 1949, made landfall on Monday, bringing the financial hub to a virtual standstill.
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Is Vietnam losing its appeal for China’s manufacturers bypassing US tariffs?
With China long established as the world’s factory, the United States has led a push to divert manufacturing and supply chains away from the world’s second-largest economy. In this three-part series, we look at whether the so-called China plus one strategy is working for the world’s manufacturers.
China investigators suspect construction work caused fire that killed 16 people in shopping mall
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese investigators suspect construction work sparked a fire that caused 16 deaths in a shopping mall in the southwestern city of Zigong. The fire broke out around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and took almost 10 hours to be extinguished, state media reported.
Outrage in Japan as ‘indoctrination’ blamed for stabbings of woman, child in China
The woman, who has not been identified but is in her 30s, and her preschool age son were apparently attacked on Monday along with a Chinese woman as they waited for a bus to her other child’s Japanese school in the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu province.