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Fireworks, flowers in Wuhan for Lunar New Year but grief lingers
AFP, Published on 22/01/2023
» WUHAN (CHINA) - Three years after a once-mysterious virus plunged the Chinese city of Wuhan into a terrifying lockdown, residents are celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit with fireworks, flowers and offerings to the loved ones they have lost to Covid-19.
Beijing crematoriums strain under Covid wave
AFP, Published on 16/12/2022
» BEIJING: Workers at Beijing crematoriums said Friday they are overwhelmed as China faces a surge in Covid cases that authorities warn could hit its underdeveloped rural hinterland during upcoming public holidays.
'Hopeless': Chinese homebuyers run out of patience with developers
AFP, Published on 12/08/2022
» BEIJING - Newly married and with his first child on the way, auto worker Wang wanted to move into the apartment he bought in Wuhan three years ago but those hopes were dashed by China's ballooning property crisis.
Gotta bounce: Some spiders catapult away after sex to avoid death
AFP, Published on 26/04/2022
» WASHINGTON: Sometimes there are pretty valid reasons for leaving right after sex.
21 dead as torrential rainfall batters central China
AFP, Published on 13/08/2021
» BEIJING - At least 21 people died as heavy downpours struck central China's Hubei province, authorities said Friday, weeks after record floods wreaked havoc and killed hundreds in a neighbouring province.
Fire at China martial arts school kills 18, mainly children
AFP, Published on 25/06/2021
» BEIJING: At least 18 people died and 16 were injured in a fire at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of Friday, according to a local government statement.
Masks off, mortarboards on for mass graduation in Wuhan
AFP, Published on 15/06/2021
» BEIJING: A huge red banner welcomed more than 11,000 students in Wuhan for a massive graduation ceremony over a year after the city was battered by the first global outbreak of Covid-19.
WHO team to start Wuhan virus probe under global glare
AFP, Published on 28/01/2021
» WUHAN (CHINA) - A team of experts from the World Health Organization left quarantine in Wuhan on Thursday to begin a heavily scrutinised probe into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, after Washington urged a "robust and clear" investigation.
Wuhan next-of-kin say China silencing them as WHO visits
AFP, Published on 27/01/2021
» WUHAN, China: Relatives of Wuhan's coronavirus dead on Wednesday said Chinese authorities have deleted their social media group and are pressuring them to keep quiet while a World Health Organization team is in the city to investigate the pandemic's origins.
Pride and caution in Wuhan on lockdown anniversary
AFP, Published on 23/01/2021
» WUHAN (CHINA) - Exactly one year after it thrust the word "lockdown" into the global conversation, Wuhan passed the anniversary on Saturday with a mix of pride at emerging from Covid-19's grip and caution over a possible relapse.