News about China

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 29): Mega coffee shop chain Starbucks has announced it has closed about half of its almost 4,300 outlets in The People’s Republic of China, reported the BBC today.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 29): It is flying around social media faster than the bats which allegedly are the source of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) now spreading across China and the globe – we are talking about fake news on the disease.

SINGAPORE (Jan 28): The city state’s Health Ministry has confirmed today that two more cases of coronavirus infection originating from Wuhan, China have been detected.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 28): The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in China will “will afflict a minimum of tens of thousands of people and will last at least several months”, AFP has reported researchers saying based on “the first available data”.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 28): Scientists at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was reported to have “isolated the novel coronavirus in the environmental samples of a seafood market in Wuhan”.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 28): Hong Kong’s popular actor Louis Koo (pictured) has donated up to RM5.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 28): More than 100 deaths in China have been reported from the coronavirus outbreak, reported Reuters today.

PETALING JAYA: You don’t often see property development companies investing substantial sums in research & development (R&D) but China-based China Vanke Co Ltd (Vanke) has been spending RMB300 million (RM178 million) annually on R&D since 2006, especially on aspects of property development.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 23): LBS Bina Group Bhd has disposed of all its 9.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 23): Malaysia-based café operator OldTown Sdn Bhd should be held responsible for the damages and losses faced by China franchisees amid allegations of contract fraud involving ownership of the OldTown trademark there, franchisee Jiangsu G&L Food & Beverage Management Co Ltd (G&L) claimed today.