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S. China’s fi rst Philippines cruise line to sailShekou Prince Bay Cruise Homeport will usher in the fi rst six-day-fi ve-night Philippine line in South China on Aug. 27

City to build extremesports park

Shenzhen is planning to build an extreme sports park as extreme sports are gaining popularity in the city

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China’s top cybersecurity and education authorities have vowed to build four to six world-class cybersecurity schools within 10 years, as part of efforts to realize the nation’s goal of becoming a strong Internet power

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More than 150 Iranian current and former BBC staff and contributors have been barred from major fi nancial transactions in Iran, an Iranian court order showed, in a fresh step against foreign media seen as hostile to Tehran

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China made an astonishing comeback Tuesday to advance to the quarterfi nals of the FIBA Asia Cup after beating Syria 81-79

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Pink will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, MTV’s highest honor, at the Video Music Awards (VMAs) later this month

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UEFA Player of the Year shortlist unveiledGianluigi Buffon, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were named on the shortlist for the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award

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£ TAIWANESE CREW TO SERVE XIAMEN AIRLINES FLIGHTS

Flight attendants from Taiwan pose for a photo at a ceremony held by the Xiamen Airlines to welcome the new employees in Xiamen, Fujian Province, yesterday. They are among the fi rst group of 35 Taiwanese fl ight attendants who will serve on planes of the airline in December after a three-month training. China News Service

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CHINA IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST CHINA IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST CREDITOR ONCE AGAINCREDITOR ONCE AGAIN

CHINA reclaimed its position as the world’s largest holder of U.S. Treasury securities in June after nine months, the latest data from the U.S. Treasury Depart-ment showed Tuesday.

China’s holdings of U.S. Trea-suries increased by US$44.3 bil-lion in June, the fi fth consecutive monthly rise, with the total hold-ings up to US$1.1465 trillion.

Japan, which overtook China as the largest holder of U.S. Treasuries last October, cut its holdings by US$20.5 billion to US$1.0908 trillion in June.

By the end of June, the overall foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose to US$6.1713 tril-lion from US$6.1236 trillion in the previous month.

The rise of China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries comes as

pressure from China’s capital outfl ows eased and the Chinese currency strengthened.

China was dumping U.S. Trea-suries in 2016 so that it could buy its own currency — the yuan — to counter downward pres-sure caused by a huge outfl ow of cash from its economy.

Since early this year, however, its holdings of U.S. debt have steadily ticked up.

China’s foreign exchange reserves rose for a sixth con-secutive month in July, reaching US$3.081 trillion.

“They may have reshuffl ed their portfolio a little bit and sold a few things. Maybe they think the dollar is attractive now and they increased those [Treasuries] holdings,” said Kevin Lai, chief economist for Asia ex-Japan at

Daiwa Capital Markets in Hong Kong.

The overall increase in reserves was due to weakness in the dollar, which has helped push up the value of nondollar cur-rencies in its holdings, China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange said last week.

Indeed, the People’s Bank of China remains a net seller of foreign currency, though net

sales narrowed sharply to 4.647 billion yuan (US$694.93 million) in July, according to central bank data yesterday.

The recent increase in U.S. Treasury holdings possibly also refl ects an incentive to buy U.S.-dollar denominated assets amid rising U.S. interest rates. The pullback in the dollar allowed for a relatively cheaper entry point. (SD-Agencies)