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Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:59:03 +0800UK must correct its mistake over CGTN: Beijing
China is "firmly opposed" to Britain's decision to revoke the licence of state broadcaster CGTN, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
A ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told a news briefing that Beijing urges the United Kingdom to "correct its mista...
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:26:20 +0800China reports fewest virus cases in over a month
China reported the fewest new Covid-19 cases in over a month, official data showed on Friday, suggesting that the latest wave of the disease is subsiding ahead of the key Lunar New Year holiday period set to begin next week.
The National Health Comm...
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:16:40 +0800UK revokes CGTN's licence; China blasts BBC
Britain's media regulator, Ofcom, said on Thursday that it has revoked China Global Television Network's (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK
In a statement, the regulator also said it expected to shortly conclude separate sanctions proceedings aga...
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 17:22:52 +0800Guyana calls off opening of Taiwanese mission
Guyana on Thursday abruptly terminated an agreement with Taiwan to open an office in the South American country, hours after Beijing urged Georgetown to "correct their mistake."
Taiwan's foreign ministry earlier on Thursday said it had signed an agr...
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:21:36 +0800Mainland's coronavirus total rises slightly
The central government reported 30 new Covid-19 cases on the mainland on February 3, official data showed on Thursday, up slightly from 25 cases a day earlier.
The National Health Commission said in a statement that 17 of the new cases were locally ...
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:35:17 +0800Washington 'disturbed' by latest report on Xinjiang
The United States is "deeply disturbed" by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed t...
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:20:50 +0800No change to 'one-China' policy, Washington says
The US State Department said on Wednesday its support of a "one-China" policy over Taiwan has not changed.
A statement issued by the Biden administration on January 23, its first Saturday in office, expressing strong support for Taiwan in the face o...
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:36:29 +0800WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab
A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organisation on Wednesday visited a major virus research laboratory in China's central city of Wuhan, seeking clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Driving through thick morning ...
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:30:27 +0800Covid cases in China fall to one-month low
China reported the fewest number of new Covid-19 cases for a single day in more than a month, official data showed on Wednesday, the latest indication that the current wave of the disease is subsiding ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday break.
A tot...
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:43:10 +0800Another lawyer for HK detainees struck off
Mainland authorities have revoked the licence of a lawyer who was engaged by the family of one of the 12 Hongkongers arrested and detained in Shenzhen while allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan.
Ren Quanniu was appointed by the relatives of Wong Wai-y...
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:14:55 +0800Mainland police arrest 80 over fake vaccines
Mainland police arrested more than 80 people and confiscated over 3,000 fake doses of Covid-19 vaccine as part of a campaign to combat vaccine-related crimes, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The suspects had been carrying out the ruse since at le...
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:54:32 +0800WHO investigators visit disease control centre
A World Health Organisation-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic on Monday visited the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Hubei provinces, where the outbreak emerged in late 2019.
The group of independent experts spe...
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:57:23 +0800China launches carbon emissions trading scheme
China launched a carbon trading system on Monday designed to drive down emissions, as the world's biggest polluter takes steps towards decarbonising its economy by 2060.
The scheme lets provincial governments set pollution caps for big-power busines...
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 01:42:40 +0800China suspends most foreign travel from Canada
China has temporarily blocked entry to foreign nationals travelling from Canada, even those with current residency permits, the Chinese embassy in Ottawa said.
"In view of the current Covid-19 situation and the need of epidemic prevention and contro...
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:48:56 +0800WHO team visits Wuhan market to probe Covid origins
A World Health Organisation-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the new coronavirus was initially detected.
The team...
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 23:08:30 +0800China starts up first Hualong One nuclear reactor
China National Nuclear Corporation said its first nuclear power unit that uses Hualong One, a third-generation nuclear reactor, started commercial operations on Saturday.
The reactor, located in the city of Fuqing city in China’s southeastern Fuji...
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:27:03 +0800WHO team visits Wuhan hospital
The World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of Covid-19 during a mission that has been tightly controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital on Saturday in the central city of Wuhan that treated early coronavirus patients.
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Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:37:46 +0800Canadian court refuses to relax Meng's bail terms
A Canadian judge on Friday rejected Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's request to relax her bail conditions as she fights against extradition to the US on fraud and conspiracy charges.
British Columbia Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke ruled that th...
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:15:25 +0800Disgraced ex-banker Lai Xiaomin executed
China on Friday executed a former top banker accused of taking US$260 million worth of bribes, other forms of corruption and bigamy, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of Huarong – one of China's largest state-contro...
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:56:13 +0800WHO experts poised to start Wuhan fieldwork
Experts from the World Health Organization met Chinese officials on Friday ahead of their first site visits in Wuhan for a coronavirus origins probe which will take in a food market presumed to be "ground zero" of the pandemic.
The fieldwork was set...