The United States Department of State issued an advisory against travel to China, due to the impact of arbitrary law enforcement and COVID-19-related restrictions.
If you have sold or transferred all your shares in China Life Insurance Company Limited, you should at once hand this circular and the accompanying proxy form, the reply slip for the Annual General Meeting and, if applicable, the 2021 Annual Report to the purchaser or transferee or to the bank, stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was.
(PNA file photo) MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has turned down a plea by a former central bank official being sought for extradition by the Hong Kong government for bribery charges. In a resolution dated April 5, the CA upheld its 2021 ruling against Juan Antonio Munoz, the former treasury head of the defunct Central Bank of the Philippines, a precursor of the present Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region authorities wanted Munoz extradited to face charges of receiving illegal payments in 1994 while doing business with Moccatta Hong Kong, a subsidiary of the Standard Chartered Bank. The Supreme Court has ruled in 2016 that Munoz may be extradited to face charges of seven counts of "conspiracy to defraud." Munoz is also charged with "accepting an advantage as an agent." In its ruling, the CA, which denied Munoz's motion for reconsideration for lack of merit, said the SC had already sustained the granting of the extradition and
The U.S. government has ordered all non-emergency staff at its Shanghai consulate and their families to leave the city due to a surge in Covid cases and lockdowns.
The Fox News host on Monday night discussed the situation in Shanghai, warning that the repression within the Chinese city was giving ideas to authoritarians inside the United States.