China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival struggles to shake off weak consumer spending

Ten people have been arrested for selling counterfeit concert tickets to shows in Hong Kong, including concerts by Korean boy band BigBang, swindling victims out of at least HK$360,000 (US$46,150) through online ticket scams and fake storefronts. Police said on Thursday that the counterfeits were almost identical to genuine tickets and hard to spot as fakes with the naked eye, but were made of rougher paper, had duller printing and lacked the genuine tickets’ laser-emitting corner labels. In an.

Welcome to the China Issue Bloomberg.com

Beyond profits: Why China’s social planning will outpace US tech drive Friends of Socialist China

Myanmar Needs a China-Critical Policy, Not an Anti-China Policy The Diplomat – Asia-Pacific Current Affairs Magazine