China’s top scientist Wu Yiling’s wealth declined by $2 billion after shares of his company, Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical, plunged 35% in the past two weeks. The company’s stock fell after the …
Monthly Archives For April 2022
China: Anger mounts among locked-down Shanghai residents as city reports more COVID deaths
The city, battling China’s biggest coronavirus outbreak so far, reported 12 new COVID-19 deaths on Friday, up from 11 a day before.
India says China must be treated as equal creditor when restructuring Sri Lanka debt
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she told the IMF and World Bank that ‘all creditors must be treated equally and with transparency’.
Shanghai COVID-19 death toll rises by 12, all unvaccinated
China’s major financial hub of Shanghai reported 12 new COVID-19-related deaths on Friday, up from 11 the previous day, the municipal health commission said Saturday.
Beijing on alert after COVID-19 cases discovered in school
Beijing is on alert after 10 middle school students tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, in what city officials said was an initial round of testing. City officials suspended classes in the school …
Bookings for rural homestays in Beijing boom for May Day holidays amid continued COVID-19 outbreaks throughout China
Bookings for rural homestays in multiple districts in Beijing have surged for the approaching five-day May Day holidays as local residents are encouraged to stay within the city amid the resurgence of …
Fast, precise, too tough? Lockdowns risk stalling China’s economy
Strict response to virus buckles supply chains, hits consumers and sends unemployment soaring …
China logs 2,971 new Covid cases in a day, of which 2,736 in Shanghai
Besides Shanghai, the rest of the local cases were reported in 16 other provincial-level regions including 136 in the northeastern province of Jilin, and six in Beijing …
Coronavirus: China’s consumption expected to be ‘dismal’ over Labour Day holiday as Omicron wave rolls on
Analysts have made gloomy predictions for consumption in China over the Labour Day holiday, as health fears and Covid-19 restrictions weigh on domestic travel.
Coronavirus: Hong Kong struggles with fire hazard over growing mountain of dumped foam boxes barred from mainland China
Reusable boxes not allowed to be taken across border with mainland China over fears of coronavirus cases among truck drivers Three fires reported since February as thousands of discarded foam boxes …
US warns Solomon Islands against China military base as Australian MPs trade blame
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg refuses to say when Australia first knew of pact between Solomon Islands and China …
How Crypto Is Failing Spectacularly to Greenwash Itself
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty“Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin.” That’s how one Twitter user described the …
China must raise air quality standards as smog persists -task force
China should raise air quality standards as persistent smog continues to have a severe public health impact despite recent improvements, a state-funded task force said.
