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China punishes dozens of Xi’an officials as city grapples with COVID-19 lockdown
Dozens of officials have been punished over a virus outbreak in the locked-down city of Xi’an, China’s disciplinary body said Friday -- the latest ... Coronavirus -
Beijing seals off mall, housing compounds after COVID-19 flare-up
Beijing sealed off a large downtown mall and locked down several residential communities Thursday in response to a recent COVID-19 flare-up, as the ... Coronavirus -
China rejects US report on origins of COVID-19 as ‘political and false’
Beijing lashed out against a US intelligence review into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, calling it “political and false” while urging ... Coronavirus -
China kills three house cats that tested positive for coronavirus
Authorities in a city in the north of China have killed three house cats that tested positive for COVID-19, according to a local media ... Coronavirus -
Chinese cities roll out mass testing for millions amid surge in COVID-19 cases
Chinese cities rolled out mass testing of millions of people and imposed fresh travel restrictions as health authorities battled Sunday to contain the ... Coronavirus -
China logs 76 new COVID-19 cases, highest daily rise since January
China on Monday reported 76 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily rise since January, including 40 domestic transmissions prompting authorities to ... Coronavirus -
Britain’s MI5 chief warns of Russian and Chinese spies
Britain’s top domestic spymaster cautioned the population on Wednesday to treat the threat of spying from Russia and China as vigilantly as terrorism, ... World News -
Pentagon says China’s offensive space technology is ‘on the march’
China is making sizable, long-term investments in weapons designed to jam or destroy satellites as the nation seeks to rapidly narrow the gap in space ... World News -
Nike shares lose out as Chinese sneaker rivals gain after Xinjiang cotton boycott
A wave of patriotic buying fueled by the Xinjiang cotton controversy is helping shares of Chinese sportswear makers outperform global peers.Chinese ... Financial Markets -
China, Russia extend friendship treaty, hail close ties
The leaders of China and Russia on Monday announced the extension of a 20-year-old friendship treaty, hailing increasingly close ties and the ... World News -
UK opens special visa route for Hong Kong residents to become British citizens
Hong Kong residents can apply from Sunday for a new visa offering them an opportunity to become British citizens after Beijing’s imposition of a ... World News -
China’s President Xi warns Davos virtual forum against ‘new cold war’
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum Monday against starting a “new Cold War,” and urged global unity in ... Coronavirus -
China sanctions Pompeo, other members in Trump’s cabinet for violating ‘sovereignty’
China is sanctioning more than two dozen officials and members of former president Donald Trump’s cabinet, including his secretary of state Mike ... World News -
A lotus, not a Chinese dragon: India state Gujarat changes name of fruit
The government in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat has decided to change the name of dragon fruit as it feels the original ... Variety -
Coronavirus: China defends COVID-19 response after criticism by experts
China defended its handling of the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday but said it would “strive to do better” after independent experts criticized the speed ... Coronavirus -
Rescuers detect signs of life from 22 trapped miners in east China
Rescuers detected signs of life Sunday from 22 gold miners trapped underground in east China, a week after the workers were cut off by an explosion, ... World News -
Coronavirus: China builds hospital in 5 days after surge in COVID-19 cases
China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to ... Coronavirus -
Coronavirus: Serbia gets Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine
Serbia became one of the first European countries to receive a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday when one million doses of a jab produced by ... Coronavirus -
Coronavirus: Brazil researchers report modest 50.4 pct efficacy for China’s CoronaVac
A coronavirus vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac showed “general efficacy” of 50.4 percent in a late-stage trial in Brazil, the company’s local ... Coronavirus -
Coronavirus: Over half a million under lockdown as Beijing COVID-19 outbreak spreads
More than half a million people were placed under lockdown in Beijing on Monday as the government imposed strict measures to stamp out a handful of ... Coronavirus -
Hong Kong protest-related website HKChronicles says users’ access blocked
A Hong Kong website that publishes material mainly related to anti-government protests in 2019 said its users’ access had been blocked by the city’s ... Digital -
UK rebukes China for ‘grievous attack’ on Hong Kong’s rights, freedoms
Britain on Wednesday rebuked China for the mass arrest of politicians and activists in Hong Kong which it said was a grievous attack on the rights of ... World News -
Coronavirus: China’s CNBG has supplied three million COVID-19 vaccine doses to UAE
United Arab Emirates (UAE) has received a total of three million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China National Biotec Group (CNBG), the company said on ... Coronavirus -
Turkey dismisses fears of Muslim Uighur deportations to China
Turkey on Wednesday brushed aside fears that a new extradition treaty with China would result in Ankara deporting Muslim Uighurs en masse.About 20 ... Middle East -
Over half of Chinese adults now overweight: Report
More than half of adults in China are now overweight, official figures showed Wednesday, with increasingly sedentary lifestyles among the country’s ... Healthy Living -
Coronavirus: Morocco to kick off mass COVID-19 vaccination plan with Chinese drug
Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, aiming to vaccinate 80 percent of its adults in an operation starting this month ... Coronavirus -
Police claim runaway Hong Kong pro-democracy politician probed for security crime
A Hong Kong pro-democracy politician who fled overseas is being investigated for national security crimes, police said Sunday, confirming they have ... World News -
23 killed in coal mine accident in China’s Chongqing
Twenty-three people died after being trapped in a mine in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, ... World News -
China drafts rules on mobile apps’ collection of personal data
China unveiled draft guidelines on Tuesday seeking to limit the scope of mobile apps’ collection of personal data in the latest attempt to curb the ... World News -
NATO must focus more on challenge of rising China, says a report
NATO must think harder about how to handle China and its military rise, though Russia will remain its main adversary during this decade, according to ... World News