•Convicted millionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai Beijing said today it has lodged “solemn representations” with countries that condemned the 20-year prison sentence given to Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai for national security crimes. Countries including the United States, Britain and Australia have spoken out against yesterday’s senten...
•Condoms and contraceptives China has imposed a 13 per cent value-added tax on condoms, contraceptive drugs and devices as part of renewed efforts to reverse the country’s declining birth rate. The policy, which took effect from yesterday, Thursday, January 1, 2026, brings to an end more than three decades of tax exemptions on contraceptive pr...
•A screen displaying a stock market index graphs and the word “Tariffs” written in the colours of the US flag, in Paris China said today it would place temporary duties on “certain dairy products” imported from the European Union, marking the latest salvo in a trade spat that spans from food to electric vehicles. The […]
•China’s flag China will impose a 13% value-added tax (VAT) on condoms and other contraceptives from January 1, ending an exemption in place since the nationwide VAT system was introduced in 1993. The change, included in a VAT law passed in 2024 to modernise the tax regime, comes as Beijing intensifies efforts to raise its […]
•China flag China executed a former executive of a top state-controlled asset management firm for corruption today, state media reported. Bai Tianhui, the ex-general manager of China Huarong International Holdings (CHIH), was found guilty of accepting more than $156 million while offering favourable treatment in the acquisition and financing o...
•Macron French President Emmanuel Macron said he has threatened China with tariffs if Beijing fails to take steps to reduce its massive trade surplus with the EU, in remarks published yesterday. “I told them that if they don’t react, we Europeans will be forced to take strong measures in the coming months,” Macron told business […]...
•Nigeria and China flags Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Yu Dunhai, met with Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and ongoing cooperation between the two countries. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chinese Embassy in Abuja. Dunhai said, “Through the joint efforts of both sides, the C...
•Shehu Sani Nigeria must accept help from global powers — including the United States and China — as the country’s internal security crisis stretches into a fifteenth year without a decisive victory over terrorists and bandits, Senator Shehu Sani has said. Speaking shortly after a one-day high-level security summit he convened yesterday in Abu...
•Containers stacked up at the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port in Phnom Penh China said today it would suspend for one year “special port fees” on US vessels “simultaneously” with Washington’s pause on levies targeting Chinese ships, as a fragile trade truce between the superpowers continues to take shape. The United States and China have been [&h...
•Adeboye, Tinubu and Trump Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to take the threat by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump lightly, urging him to plead with Trump to give Nigeria 100 days to end insurgency in […]
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