Judge Says Flip Phone And Restricted Laptop May Still Be Too Lenient For Bail Measures

Topline A federal District Court judge in New York said Friday he was not satisfied with a proposal from prosecutors to restrict former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s internet use while the disgraced...

House Unanimously Approves Bill To Declassify Intelligence On Wuhan Lab

Topline The House of Representatives voted unanimously Friday morning on a bill to declassify intelligence information on the origin of Covid-19, following two reports suggesting the deadly virus orig...

FBI Director Says Covid Likely Spread From Wuhan Lab

Topline FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News on Tuesday he believes the Covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, backing up recent reports that two federal ...

China Responds To Lab Leak Report—Says U.S. Is ‘Politicizing’ Search For Covid Origins

Topline Beijing on Monday rejected reports that the U.S. Department of Energy has determined the Covid-19 pandemic was most likely the result of an accidental leak from a Chinese lab, accusing the U.S...

How The Covid Lab Leak Origin Story Went From ‘Conspiracy Theory’ To Government Debate

Topline The U.S. Energy Department reportedly became the second government agency Sunday to conclude the coronavirus probably leaked from a lab rather than jumping from animals to humans naturally, a ...

China’s Baidu Expands Driverless Taxi Operationality in Wuhan

Baidu rolled out its full-driverless robotaxis ride at about the same rate as the other ride-hailing services in August. Chinese multinational technology Baidu has expanded its ride-hailing platform A...

Italy Orders Covid Tests For China Arrivals, U.S. Weighs Rules

China’s Covid wave and plans to allow more outbound travel are creating worries among global health … [+] officials about the possible spread of new variants. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloo...

Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Group “Very Concerned” After BBC Journalist Detained By Police

Police officers stand guard during a protest in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Protests … [+] against Covid restrictions spread across China on Sunday as citizens took to the streets...

Wuhan City Shelves NFT Plans Amid Growing Uncertainty In China

China stands among the top jurisdictions with solid opposition to crypto assets and NFT culture. The region shook the crypto space in 2021 with restrictive measures on crypto mining. It pronounced a c...

Wuhan omits NFTs from metaverse plan amid regulatory uncertainty in China

The Chinese city of Wuhan had reportedly shelved its aspirational nonfungible tokens (NFTs) plans amid growing regulatory uncertainty around the crypto and Web3 technologies in the country. Wuhan firs...

Coronavirus Likely Emerged In Wuhan Market, New Studies Find

Topline A pair of studies suggest the coronavirus originally jumped from animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, not a laboratory. Two studies find that coronavirus stemmed from the Huanan Market in W...

China’s Oil Demand Is Tumbling the Most Since Wuhan Lockdown

(Bloomberg) — China is heading for the largest oil demand shock since the early days of the pandemic as the nation’s efforts to tame a rapidly spreading virus hobbles vast swathes of the economy...

Jessica Wang Named CEO At Hong Kong Billionaire Vincent Lo’s Flagship Shui On Land

Shui On Land is the developer of Shanghai’s iconic Xintandi nightlife and commercial district. … [+] (Photo by Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Shui On Land, the ...