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Taiwan detects Chinese warships, planes around island after drills end
AFP, Published on 11/04/2023
» TAIPEI - Chinese warships and aircraft were still operating around Taiwan on Tuesday, the island's defence ministry said, a day after Beijing declared an end to its massive war games.
China ends Taiwan war games aimed at 'sealing off' island
Published on 10/04/2023
» China declared it had "successfully completed" three days of war games around Taiwan on Monday, capping a show of force that saw it simulate targeted strikes and practise a blockade of the self-ruled island.
China jails 2 prominent human rights lawyers for over 10 years
Published on 10/04/2023
» Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for over a decade, an advocacy group and one of the men's wives said Monday.
China launches three days of military drills in Taiwan Strait
AFP, Published on 08/04/2023
» BEIJING: China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday, in what it called a "stern warning" to the self-ruled island's government following a meeting between its president and the US House speaker.
China sends warships and aircraft around Taiwan for second day
AFP, Published on 07/04/2023
» TAIPEI - China sent warships and aircraft near Taiwan for a second day on Friday, Taipei said, after President Tsai Ing-wen angered Beijing by meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Durian from China? Hainan gears up for first harvest of SE Asia's 'king of fruits'
South China Morning Post, Published on 19/03/2023
» China is gearing up for the harvest of its first domestic durian crop this summer after more than four years of cultivation, although it is not expected to challenge Southeast Asia's stranglehold on sales of the pungent smelling fruit.
Regions in US, China most at risk for climate damage: report
AFP, Published on 20/02/2023
» PARIS: Major industrial and economic centres in China and the United States are among the most vulnerable regions in the world to the increasingly destructive power of climate change-driven weather extremes, according to a comprehensive analysis Monday.
Chinese doctors avoid the C-word
Published on 17/01/2023
» BEIJING: During a busy shift at the height of Beijing’s Covid wave, a physician at a private hospital saw a printed notice in the emergency department: doctors should “try not to” write Covid-induced respiratory failure on death certificates.
China population: Cities unveil new childbirth incentives
South China Morning Post, Published on 12/01/2023
» BEIJING: With China on track to record its first population decline in more than six decades, cities across the country have announced new cash incentives to encourage couples to have more children.
'Total mess' in China's rural east as Covid wave hits hard
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» BENGBU (CHINA): Exhausted doctors working overtime, tests and treatments nowhere to be found, and under-resourced clinics inundated with patients -- in Anhui, one of east China's poorest provinces, Covid-19 hit hard.