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Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:00:11 +0800
Rescuers say two more weeks needed to free miners
Rescuers believe it could take at least another two weeks to free miners trapped underground in eastern China, dashing hopes of an imminent retrieval for a group that has already spent 12 days entombed by an explosion. The increasingly desperate att...

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:08:52 +0800
Beijing launches mass Covid testing
Beijing launched mass Covid-19 testing in parts of the city on Friday, while Shanghai was testing all hospital staff, as the mainland battles the worst outbreak since March 2020. The mainland reported a slight decline in new daily Covid-19 cases on ...

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:13:32 +0800
Swine fever may be caused by illicit vaccines
A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world's largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus. Two new...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:38:33 +0800
China calls for a reset in relations with Washington
China on Thursday congratulated President Joe Biden on his inauguration and called for a reset in relations between Beijing and Washington, as the new administration brought an end to the fractious term of Donald Trump. Beijing also said it welcomed...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:20:32 +0800
Rescuers drilling new shafts to free trapped miners
Rescuers in China were drilling new shafts on Thursday to reach gold miners who have been trapped underground for 11 days after an explosion, including one they hope to use to bring the survivors to safety. A total of 22 workers were stuck undergrou...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:25:21 +0800
HK people should get China Covid jabs: Wuhan doctor
A Wuhan doctor who was among the first to be infected with Covid-19 a year ago has called on Hong Kong people to put politics aside and take China-made vaccines, even as he accused mainland authorities of trying to cover up the pandemic at its onset....

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:42:02 +0800
Taiwan-Biden ties off to strong start with invite
Taiwan's ties with its most important global backer the United States are off to a strong start under President Joe Biden's government, after Taipei's de facto ambassador attended an inauguration for the first time with an official invitation. Forme...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:20:52 +0800
China to impose virus testing on new year travellers
The mainland plans to impose strict Covid testing requirements during the Lunar New Year holiday season, when tens of millions of people are expected to travel, as it battles the worst wave of new infections since March 2020. Millions of residents i...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:10:24 +0800
Twitter locks China account over post on Xinjiang
Twitter says it has locked the account of China's US embassy for a tweet that defended Beijing's policies in the Xinjiang region, which the US social media platform said violated the firm's policy against "dehumanisation". The Chinese Embassy accoun...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:48:24 +0800
Beijing hoping vaccines can win hearts of Taiwanese
Beijing is touting a state programme that gives Taiwanese on the mainland priority for Covid-19 vaccines, prompting concern within Taiwan's government which sees it as the latest mainland tool to win over the island's population. Beijing is making t...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:37:06 +0800
Biden administration blasts China's latest sanctions
China's move to sanction former Trump administration officials was "unproductive and cynical", a spokeswoman for President Joe Biden's National Security Council has said, urging Americans from both parties to condemn the action. Around the time Bide...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:33:39 +0800
China sanctions Trump officials over 'crazy moves'
China is sanctioning more than two dozen officials and members of former president Donald Trump's cabinet, including his secretary of state Mike Pompeo, for violating the country's "sovereignty", its foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The move came...

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:18:22 +0800
Beijing partially locked down, reports UK variant
Beijing health officials on Wednesday said two cases of Covid-19 found in the capital were the highly-transmissible UK variant of the virus, as five neighbourhoods were locked down in the south of the city. The cases in Daxing district were "conside...

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:35:00 +0800
Taiwan cancels more events as Covid cases rise
Taiwan has cancelled or postponed more large-scale events after a rare outbreak of domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases connected to a hospital, where the military has been sent to help with disinfection. Taiwan, which has kept the pandemic well ...

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:28:04 +0800
Mainland deploys 16 teams to rescue stricken miners
China has deployed 16 professional rescue teams and dozens of medical personnel to try to save 12 miners trapped underground for 10 days after an explosion in a gold mine in Shandong province, state media reported. A total of 22 miners were left tra...

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:21:42 +0800
Beijing steps up Covid-19 measures over outbreak
Beijing authorities said on Wednesday that they will investigate all individuals who entered the capital from abroad from December 10, after reporting the biggest daily jump in new Covid-19 cases in more than three weeks. The measures come amid what...

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:28:50 +0800
China's Covid outbreak worst since March 2020
The mainland is battling the worst outbreak of Covid-19 since March 2020, with one province posting a record daily rise in cases, as an independent panel reviewing the global pandemic said China could have done more to curb the initial outbreak. Sta...

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:23:13 +0800
Taiwan cancels lantern festival over pandemic
Taiwan on Tuesday cancelled a major festival during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday as it reported four locally transmitted cases of Covid-19, the biggest daily rise in local infections in nearly 11 months. Taiwan, which has kept the pandemic we...

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 03:50:56 +0800
Panel: China, WHO too slow on Covid response
An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial Covid-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health Organisation (WHO) for not declaring an internation...

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:40:11 +0800
Shanghai Disney Resort probes 'Uighur snub'
Walt Disney's resort in Shanghai said on Monday it was investigating after a travel agency apparently refused to let a member of the Uighur Muslim minority use a resort and lodging package sold by a hotel nearby. Screenshots of a conversation betwee...



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