Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of its transport network in a major step towards exiting a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing kept up its defences in …
Monthly Archives For May 2022
Thousands of Covid-negative Beijing residents sent to quarantine
Beijing has been battling its worst outbreak since the pandemic started. The Omicron variant has infected over 1,300 since late April, leading city restaurants, schools and tourist attractions to be …
Beijing Quarantines All Residents of Housing Complex: Paper
Authorities in Beijing have sent all residents of a large housing complex into quarantine after a total of 26 cases of Covid were discovered in the compound, Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Tokyo protests to Beijing over East China Sea construction
Japan has lodged an official protest with China after discovering what it claimed were efforts by Beijing to develop gas fields in disputed waters in the …
NBA player Enes Freedom asks for another player to stand with him against NBA’s ties to China
Basketball star Enes Freedom pleaded for a fellow player to join him in taking a stand against the NBA’s connections to communist China Friday on “The Ingraham Angle.” ENES FREEDOM: Human rights …
Real estate rejuvenation may lead China’s economy back to normalcy
Burdened by a resurgence of coronavirus in Shanghai, Beijing and a few other large cities, China’s economy in April reversed its growth trend and slowed down as stricter pandemic control measures, …
Lin-gang strikes $4b deals with 37 firms
The 37 deals worth 27 billion yuan ($4 billion) signed on Friday will bring industrial development and urban construction projects to Lin-gang Special Area of the China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone, …
China’s property crisis: who and what will save the indebted developers in the world’s largest real-estate market?
Sunac, which forked out 43.8 billion yuan in 2017 to help Wanda, defaulted on a US dollar bond last week, and had its rating cut twice by Fitch, deep into junk status R&F, which bought…
Beijing reports 58 confirmed, 12 asymptomatic local COVID-19 cases
Beijing reported 58 new confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 12 local asymptomatic cases on Friday, the Beijing municipal health commission said Saturday.
More cases spark mass testing in Beijing, elsewhere
The fast and stealthy spread of the Omicron variant has required frequent nucleic acid testing drives in COVID-affected regions and regular mass screening in other areas in order to detect new …
National security law: Hong Kong has taken ‘authoritarian turn’ in 2021 under Beijing-imposed legislation, EU says in annual report
China’s foreign ministry office in the city and local authorities hit back at criticism, calling comments ‘unfounded’.
China Bridge Row: India lashes Beijing for ‘illegal occupation of land’
India again called out China amid reports of them building a second bridge on Pangong Tso. The spokesperson for the ministry of external affairs issued an official statement and said that the land on …
Japan PM Kishida calls China’s development in E. China Sea “unacceptable”
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday that he was disappointed in China’s efforts to develop areas in the East China Sea, saying that it was “unacceptable.” …
