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Fri, 14 May 2021 08:29:41 +0800
Taiwan says no need to raise Covid alert level
Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday that there is no need to raise the island's Covid-19 alert level for the time being and that compared with last year it has more experience and resources to fight the pandemic. While Taiwan has reported j...

Fri, 14 May 2021 08:13:43 +0800
Mainland reports seven Covid cases, two of them local
Mainland China reported seven new Covid-19 cases on May 13, down from nine cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Friday. Two of the new cases were local infections in Anhui province, the National Health Commission said...

Fri, 14 May 2021 03:33:08 +0800
Taiwan says its power back to normal
Tech powerhouse Taiwan resumed power late on Thursday following several hours of phased blackouts islandwide, a problem that briefly impacted major semiconductor firm TSMC. Around 4 million homes were affected on the island of 24 million people afte...

Thu, 13 May 2021 16:05:20 +0800
Blackouts reported across Taiwan after plant outage
A rotational electricity blackout was implemented across Taiwan on Thursday following an outage at a major power plant, the government said. President Tsai Ing-wen called for calm, saying the power supply would be gradually resumed as workers condu...

Thu, 13 May 2021 00:52:17 +0800
UN event turns spotlight on plight of Uyghurs
Dozens of countries raised awareness about China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang at a meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday, angering Beijing, which had lobbied member states to stay away from what it described as an anti-China event. ...

Wed, 12 May 2021 16:17:29 +0800
Hainan teams intentionally score own goals to lose
Two Chinese football teams purposely scored own goals to try to lose a farcical match in what has been described as "an unbelievable" scene and "a smear" on the game. Widely shared footage of the game between the over-35 sides showed them strolling...

Wed, 12 May 2021 11:41:31 +0800
Taiwan may raise Covid alert level in coming days
Taiwan may raise its Covid-19 alert level in the "coming days", Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday, according to the official Central News Agency, which would lead to the closure of shops dealing in non-essential items as infections ri...

Wed, 12 May 2021 09:13:41 +0800
'Central govt should offer 1mn yuan for each newborn'
A Chinese professor has urged the government to offer parents 1 million yuan (US$156,000) for each newborn child in a bid to shore up the country's declining birth rate, sparking a debate on social media about the soaring costs of raising children. ...

Tue, 11 May 2021 14:52:39 +0800
Two plead guilty in China over sensitive web archive
Two amateur computer coders pleaded guilty Tuesday to “stirring up trouble and picking quarrels" in a case that highlighted a growing Chinese government crackdown on online activity. Chen Mei, 28, and Cai Wei, 27, created an online archive that st...

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:43:54 +0800
Hangzhou safari park conceals leopards' escape
Authorities in eastern China used drones and hunting dogs to search for the last of three leopards that escaped from a safari park, which faced strong public criticism for concealing the breakout for more than two weeks. The leopards escaped from H...

Tue, 11 May 2021 11:06:11 +0800
China's population grows to 1.41 billion: Beijing
China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on Tuesday, Beijing said. The growth of 5.4 percent since the last census in 2010 reflects fears of a looming demographic crisis amid an ageing...

Tue, 11 May 2021 10:04:35 +0800
Beijing urges UN members to boycott summit on Uyghurs
China on Monday urged the United States, Germany and Britain to cancel an upcoming video conference on Beijing's crackdown on the Uyghur Muslim minority, and called on other UN members not to attend the event. At least one million Uyghurs and people...

Tue, 11 May 2021 09:46:47 +0800
Taipei still pushing for seat at WHO summit
Taiwan will fight to the end for an invitation to a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this month, its foreign ministry said on Monday, but China said there was no room for compromise. The rich-nation Group of Seven (G7) has called for Taiwan t...

Mon, 10 May 2021 20:59:21 +0800
Beijing defends handling of rocket that fell to Earth
Beijing defended its handling of a rocket booster that burned up over the Indian Ocean and said Monday it was unfairly being held to different standards than the US and other space programs. The administrator of the American space agency and others...

Mon, 10 May 2021 12:21:03 +0800
China to set up Covid separation line on Everest peak
China will set up a "separation line" on the peak of Mount Everest to avoid possible Covid-19 infections by climbers from virus-hit Nepal, state media reported, after dozens were taken ill from the summit's base camp. While the virus first emerged i...

Mon, 10 May 2021 12:00:56 +0800
Mothers demand answers, 13 years after Sichuan quake
It's been 13 years since the massive Sichuan earthquake that killed thousands of children, and most of their parents have now given up any hope of getting justice. But despite repeated detentions and beatings by mainland authorities, at least two m...

Sun, 09 May 2021 16:57:08 +0800
Mainland duo to be tried over sensitive web archive
Two men who have been held in custody for allegedly backing up sensitive articles from the internet are expected to be brought before a court in Beijing on Tuesday. The two volunteers, Chen Mei and Cai Wei – working for the website called "Termin...

Sun, 09 May 2021 11:39:12 +0800
Plummeting Chinese rocket burns up over ocean
A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the national space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. Officials in Beiji...

Fri, 07 May 2021 17:38:04 +0800
China says 'extremely low' risk from rocket debris
China said on Friday the risk of damage from a rocket falling back to Earth was "extremely low", after the United States warned it could crash down onto an inhabited area. Military experts in the US expect the body of the Long March 5B rocket, which...

Fri, 07 May 2021 16:27:21 +0800
Taiwan rations water amid worsening drought
Some households in Taiwan are going without running water two days a week after a months-long drought dried up the island's reservoirs and a popular tourist lake. Authorities are drilling extra wells and using military planes to dump cloud-seeding ...



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