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Zhao's historic snooker title sparks talk of China world domination
AFP, Published on 09/05/2025
» BEIJING — Zhao Xintong's historic World Snooker Championship title is set to spur the game to even greater heights in China and sparked predictions the country could come to dominate the sport.
Coffins, fear and desperation: the Covid frontline in 10 pictures
AFP, Published on 22/01/2021
» PARIS - The coronavirus pandemic has shattered economies, left more than two million dead and paralysed lives. Vaccination drives are now trying to bring hope of a new dawn.
Vaccination efforts boosted, WHO to probe Covid origins in China
AFP, Published on 11/01/2021
» LONDON - Vaccination efforts were boosted Monday as BioNTech planned millions more doses than expected this year and mass inoculation sites opened across England while the world neared two million pandemic deaths a year since the first fatality was recorded.
Year on from first Covid-19 death, Wuhan basks in recovery
AFP, Published on 11/01/2021
» WUHAN, China: One year ago, China announced the first death from a new virus in Wuhan -- 12 months later, Covid-19 has claimed 1.9 million lives in an unrelenting march across the world.
Rookie Champ keeps lead at PGA Sanderson Farms event
AFP, Published on 27/10/2018
» JACKSON, United States: Chinese-American teen Norman Xiong fired a five-under par 67 Friday to seize a share of the lead after the second round of the US PGA Tour's Sanderson Farms Championship.
Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens
AFP, Published on 29/08/2018
» BEIJING: The Chinese kindergarten children giggled as they worked to solve puzzles assigned by their new teaching assistant: a roundish, short educator with a screen for a face.