The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games are under way, and so are its figure skating competitions — one of the games’ most beloved sports. The rhinestones and cascading chiffon of figure skating …
Monthly Archives For February 2022
Elana Meyers Taylor at the 2022 Olympics: Get to know the Team USA bobsled star at Beijing Games
The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will mark Elana Meyers Taylor’s fourth Olympic Games, but it will be her first as a mother. She also told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday that she tested positive…
At Olympics, Beijing sees a chance to sell world on digital yuan
With a swipe on the turnstile using ski gloves fitted with the latest digital yuan wallet, Shen marked the launch of China’s campaign to promote its central bank digital currencies overseas during the …
China’s belt and road plans face new EU, US competition, but ‘space for cooperation’ remains
China’s financing and investment across the 144 countries under the Belt and Road Initiative was US$59.5 billion last year, in line with the US$60.5 billion in 2020, according to a report by the Green …
India boycotts Beijing Olympics over Chinese PLA torchbearer
India on Thursday announced a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing after a commander involved in 2020 border clashes between the two countries appeared as an Olympic torchbearer in the …
Tracking Coronavirus in China: Latest Case Count
More than 359 people with Olympic credentials, including 102 athletes and team officials, have tested positive for the coronavirus in China, either at the airport on arrival in China or within the …
Across China: Spring Festival celebrated amid targeted COVID-19 control measures
Before the Spring Festival, people across China were in an upbeat mood preparing for the arrival of the Lunar New Year, as targeted COVID-19 control measures were in place to prevent the spread of the…
The Latest: 21 new COVID-19 cases at Beijing Olympics
Organizers say nine more athletes and officials tested positive for COVID-19 in cases confirmed on Thursday … have arrived in Beijing from outside China. Organizers have delayed the start …
The Beijing Games are unlikely to lead to an uncontrolled spread of Covid to the public: Professor
Dale Fisher of the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine says strict rules and the “wall” between the Beijing Olympics and the Chinese public would make a spread of the virus outside the Games…
World leaders: Who’s coming, who isn’t to Beijing Olympics
The U.S., Britain and a handful of others aren’t sending dignitaries to the Beijing Winter Games as part of a diplomatic boycott, but the Chinese capital is still attracting an array of world leaders …
China Unicom: US Revocation of License to Operate in US Not Under Normal Procedure
China Unicom Group issued a statement to respond to the US FCC’s revocation of the license of China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited, under CHINA UNICOM (00762.HK), to operate in the US. The Group …
Pak PM Imran Khan Arrives In China; Aims To Seek Financial Relief On Belt And Road Debts
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to China during the Winter Olympics 2022 largely aims to seek financial relief on Belt and Road debts.
Budget has nothing for jobless, rising China imports go against self-reliance: Amit Mitra
Mitra indicated that the theme of atmanirbharta, which was peppered throughout Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech (with at least seven mentions), lacked credibility, especially since …
