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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:51:42 +0800China empties out military camps at disputed border
China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last summer, satellite images released on Wednesday show.
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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:22:11 +0800China will pay a price for rights abuses, says Biden
China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, US President Joe Biden has warned, responding to queries at a televised event on Beijing's handling of Muslim minorities in its far western region of Xinjiang.
President Xi Jinping has drawn global...
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:41:21 +0800China reports nine Covid-19 cases
China reported nine new coronavirus cases in the mainland for February 14, compared to seven a day earlier, the health commission said on Monday.
Of the cases, eight were imported infections originating overseas, while one case was recorded in Hebei...
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:07:09 +0800Mainland reports eight Covid cases, all imported
China reported eight new coronavirus cases on the mainland for February 12, compared to 12 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Saturday.
All of the new cases were imported infections, the National Health Commission said in a statement...
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 01:40:57 +0800No hypothesis ruled out in Covid probe: WHO
All hypotheses are still open in the World Health Organisation's search for the origins of Covid-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Friday.
A WHO-led mission in China said this week that it was not looking further...
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:25:30 +0800BBC ban angers US, British officials
There's been swift condemnation from both the United States and Britain after Beijing's broadcasting regulator banned BBC World News from Chinese territory for what state media described as "serious content violations".
RTHK has also stopped its li...
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:46:31 +0800RTHK pulls plug on BBC after mainland ban
Beijing's broadcasting regulator said in the early hours of Friday that it's banned BBC World News from Chinese territory for what state media described as "serious content violations" and RTHK has also decided to drop its live relay of the broadcast...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:45:49 +0800New year as festive as ever for those in Wuhan
People thronged the streets of Wuhan this week, as they made final preparations for the Lunar New Year to bring the curtain down on a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic that killed thousands.
The outbreak, which first emerged in Wuhan in late 2...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:05:28 +0800China, India agree to withdraw troops from lake area
China and India have agreed to pull back troops from a bitterly contested lake area high in the western Himalayas, the Indian defence minister said on Thursday, in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border.
Rajnath Singh tol...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:55:05 +0800Taiwan thanks Biden for his support during Xi call
Taiwan's government expressed its thanks to and "admiration" for US President Joe Biden on Thursday after he told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of his concerns about Beijing's pressure against Taipei.
Biden's government, which took office on Ja...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:39:37 +0800Confrontation would be a disaster, Xi tells Biden
Confrontation between China and the United States would be a disaster and the two sides should re-establish the means to avoid misjudgements, President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart Joe Biden in their first telephone call as leaders.
The call o...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:27:42 +0800Tencent executive held 'over links to corruption'
Chinese tech giant Tencent said on Thursday that a company executive is being held by mainland authorities over allegations of 'personal corruption', after a media report said the move was triggered by sharing personal data from its popular WeChat ap...
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:27:23 +0800Tianwen-1 probe enters orbit around Mars
An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth, China's space agency said, in the country's first independent mission to the red planet.
The robotic probe carried out a 15-mi...
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:41:34 +0800Mainland consumer prices drop as spending eases
China's consumer prices fell in January after a brief improvement at the end of last year, as the world's second-biggest economy was hit by the impact of fresh coronavirus outbreaks and decreased travel, official data showed Wednesday.
The consumer ...
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:07:09 +0800WHO experts 'still at loss over Covid transmission'
The World Health Organisation mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the animal source, scientists said on Tuesday.
Experts believe the disease, which has gone on to kill more than 2.3 million people worldw...
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:49:32 +0800Publisher Geng Xiaonan jailed for three years
A Beijing court on Tuesday sentenced prominent publisher Geng Xiaonan to three years in prison after she confessed to conducting "illegal business operations", RTHK has learnt.
According to the live stream of the court proceedings, Geng said she ple...
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:13:11 +0800No baby boom in China as births continue downtrend
The number of newborns in China plummeted 15 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Public Security, with the onset of the novel coronavirus disrupting the economy and weighing on decisions to have a family.
China saw 10.0...
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:29:36 +0800China blocks access to discussion app Clubhouse
A rare uncensored app that had attracted Chinese internet users to freely discuss taboo topics, including the mass detention of Uighurs, democracy protests in Hong Kong and the concept of Taiwanese independence appeared to have been blocked on Monday...
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:16:37 +0800CGTN journalist 'held for supplying state secrets'
An Australian journalist who has been detained for nearly six months in China where she worked for a state-television channel has been formally arrested on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, Canberra and Beijing said on Monday.
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Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:10:36 +0800China reports 14 Covid cases
China reported 14 new mainland Covid-19 cases on February 7, official data showed on Monday, up slightly from a day earlier.
All new cases originated from overseas.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed Co...