The rings spend a lot of time quietly in the background — on the ice at speedskating, curling and figure skating competitions. Ice makers applied a cutout of the rings to the track at Beijing…
Monthly Archives For February 2022
China’s Bilibili to Hire More Staff After Employee Death Stokes Overtime Debate
China’s Bilibili Inc said late on Tuesday it would hire 1,000 new content moderators and more closely monitor the health of its workers, after the death of an employee prompted accusations that it was …
Blinken to meet Pacific islands leaders balancing China and west
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Fiji on Saturday to reassure Pacific island leaders that Washington and its allies are committed to providing security and COVID vaccines, as China …
China’s local govts issued 3.58 trln yuan of special bonds in 2021 – finance ministry
China’s net local government special bond issuance in 2021 was 3.58 trillion yuan ($562.82 billion), the Ministry of Finance said in an online notice on Wednesday. We apologize, but this video has …
China Fell Short of Trump Trade-Deal Purchase Promises
China came up more than one-third short of its purchase commitments for goods in the trade deal that the world’s second-largest economy reached with the U.S. during the Trump administration.Most Read …
China reports 73 new local, 37 imported Covid-19 infections
China on Tuesday recorded 73 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday. Tuesday also saw seven provincial-level regions reporting 37 imported COVID-19 cases, …
China Suffers Few Obvious Losses as Host Country During COVID
China’s strategy is all but sure to squelch any spread of COVID-19 by plugging as many transmission channels as possible, Swartzberg said. Us-vs-them mentality China, where COVID-19 was first reported …
Covid News Live: China non-committal on timeline for return of Indian students
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that Beijing wants an orderly return of the students as per the safety protocols of Covid-19.
Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise
China’s vast region of Xinjiang has hit the headlines as a centre of massive alleged human rights abuses, but Beijing is keen it gets recognition for another reason — as a top winter sports …
Is that a nuclear plant? Behind the Beijing Olympics Big Air Shougang stadium
The old steel mill next to the big air jump moved its operations more than 15 years ago — before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Beijing Olympics organiser says 5 new COVID cases detected among personnel on Feb 8
Winter Olympics Organizing Committee said on Wednesday that a total of five new COVID-19 cases were detected among games-related personnel on Feb. 8.
Another race, another heartbreak, as Mikaela Shiffrin fails to finish slalom in Beijing
Mikaela Shiffrin’s pain was emotional, not physical — at least as far as anyone knew — but the effect was the same. She dropped her poles, wrapped her arms around her knees and buried her…
Bank of Japan policymaker says China’s ‘zero-Covid’ curbs may hurt global growth
The remark follows a warning by International Monetary Fund head Kristalina Georgieva that China should reassess its zero-Covid approach to the pandemic.
