Showing 1 - 10 of 33
Thailand's last hunter-gatherers seek land rights
AFP, Published on 22/11/2025
» PA BON (THAILAND) - Deep in a Thai forest a young man sprints through the undergrowth, blowpipe in hand, before pumping a poisoned dart at a monkey.
‘Companions’ ease pain of China’s busy, bewildering hospitals
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» BEIJING - At a bustling Beijing hospital, Tian Yigui hands over some of his elderly wife’s paperwork to Meng Jia, a “patient companion” hired to help navigate China’s stretched and bureaucratic healthcare system.
Trade war casts pall as China's leaders meet
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» BEIJING - China's leadership is gathering at the largest political event of the year on Tuesday, seeking a response to US President Donald Trump's latest salvo of tariffs targeting an already sluggish Chinese economy.
Yellen to discuss US-China ties, global economic outlook in Beijing
AFP, Published on 07/07/2023
» BEIJING - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday to cap a packed day of talks with officials and businesses in Beijing, as Washington seeks to steady the tense relationship between the world's top two economies.
Groves wins wet Giro stage as dog unseats Evenepoel
AFP, Published on 11/05/2023
» SALERNO (ITALY) - Australian Kaden Groves won a ferocious sprint at the end of a rain-soaked and crash-filled fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday as Andreas Leknessund retained the overall lead and favourite Remco Evenepoel fell twice.
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.
Giant legs of Vietnam's 'dragon chicken' a Lunar New Year delicacy
AFP, Published on 17/01/2023
» On a farm close to Hanoi, Le Van Hien picks out the best bird among his flock of "dragon chickens" -- a breed with legs as thick as a brick that can fetch up to US$2,000 a head.
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.
China's ex-Covid patients live under 'dark shadow' of stigma
AFP, Published on 11/08/2022
» BEIJING - When Zuo tested positive for Covid-19 while working as a cleaner in one of Shanghai's largest quarantine centres, she hoped it wouldn't be long before she could pick up the mop and start earning again.
Relief, caution in Beijing as city lifts Covid dine-in curbs
AFP, Published on 07/06/2022
» BEIJING - After staying home for more than a month, Chen Chunmei joined a long line of customers at a popular Beijing restaurant where diners tucked into massive bowls of crayfish following an easing of Covid restrictions in the Chinese capital.