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World welcomes 2023 and leaves a stormy year behind
Published on 01/01/2023
» The world welcomed the new year with a packed party in Times Square and fireworks soaring above European capitals, while hoping for an end to the war in Ukraine and a return to post-Covid normality in Asia.
Chinese city seeing half a million Covid cases a day
AFP, Published on 24/12/2022
» Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgement that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics.
Chinese cities relax testing rules as zero-Covid policy eases
AFP, Published on 05/12/2022
» BEIJING: Businesses reopened and testing requirements were relaxed in Beijing and other Chinese cities on Monday as the country tentatively eases out of a strict zero-Covid policy that sparked nationwide protests.
Xi's 'Chinese Dream' flickers in one Beijing neighbourhood
AFP, Published on 04/10/2022
» BEIJING: Wu has staked out his patch of the Chinese Dream. Married with a second child on the way, he has a Beijing apartment and a car paid for by a tech job with a comfortable salary.
China says no touching foreigners skin-to-skin after monkeypox case
Published on 19/09/2022
» A top Chinese health official warned people against having skin-to-skin contact with foreigners to avoid contracting monkeypox, spurring a backlash among the country’s dwindling expatriate community.
Chinese police rescue 150 cats headed for dinner tables
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» Nearly 150 cats bound for slaughterhouses have been rescued by police in eastern China, an international animal welfare organisation said.
China spokeswoman's Taiwan restaurant tweet sparks ridicule online
Published on 08/08/2022
» A senior Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman has prompted a storm of ridicule online, after a late-night tweet where she used restaurant listings to assert Beijing's claim over Taiwan.
Why is China's Uighur population shrinking?
Oped, Published on 22/07/2022
» After becoming the Communist Party of China's (CPC's) chief of Xinjiang province in 2016, Chen Quanguo oversaw a security crackdown that led to a sharp drop in births. Some observers accused China's leadership of committing genocide against the province's mostly Muslim Uighur population through forced sterilisation and abortion. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi dismissed the allegations as "fake news", arguing that Xinjiang's Uighur population had grown steadily to 12.7 million in 2018, an increase of 25% from 2010 -- and higher than the 14% increase in the province's total population.
ITI projects B18bn sales in revival
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 11/07/2022
» Italthai Industrial Co (ITI), a distributor of heavy machinery, expects to benefit from the economic recovery, projecting a value for construction and agriculture industry of 18 billion baht this year.
Citi joins Man Group and PineBridge as bullish on China stocks
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/07/2022
» The trickle of positive calls on Chinese equities has turned into a flood as a recent easing of coronavirus curbs and pledges of more stimulus help revive sentiment.