Many Chinese internet users learned of the tragedy from standardized state media reports some eight hours later.
Monthly Archives For April 2023
China wants the dollar’s dominance to fade – and the US should defend its reserve currency status, Biden nominee says
Lawmakers should vote to raise the debt ceiling to protect the greenback’s reserve currency status, Jared Bernstein said Tuesday.
Tesla Cybertruck gets competition from China’s Cyberp!ckup
The Great Wall Motor Cyberp!ckup unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show is a 6×6 plug-in hybrid pickup that’s set to go on sale in the region soon.
As EV costs tumble in China, an export wave builds
Elon Musk has said the only thing holding back electric vehicle (EV) sales is their price. Companies like BYD are solving that problem in China – and getting ready to solve it for the world.…
Wall Street turns even more bullish on China’s economy as the end of zero COVID boosts growth
JPMorgan, Citi, and UBS are all betting that a bounceback in consumer spending will boost growth after Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policies.
Via Airbus deals, Macron provides China new means of war against US
French President Emmanuel Macron used his recent state visit to China to throw gasoline on fiery tensions between the West and the Middle Kingdom.
Video shows people using tied bedsheets to escape from a Beijing hospital fire
Dramatic cellphone video showed people using tied bedsheets to climb down the walls to escape smoke and flames after a fire broke out at a Beijing hospital.
Twelve people arrested over Beijing hospital fire that killed 29
Director of Changfeng hospital among those detained after deadliest fire in China’s capital since 2002 …
Fire kills more than two dozen patients in Beijing hospital
The death toll rose on Wednesday to 29, all but three of them patients, in one of the Chinese capital’s deadliest fires in two decades.
Fire in Beijing hospital kills 29. Its president is in custody.
Police detained 12, including construction workers, over the Changfeng Hospital fire. Video appeared to show patients escaping through windows using bedsheets.
Construction work sparked Beijing hospital fire that killed 29 people, officials say
Chinese police have detained 12 people over a hospital fire that killed 29 people, mostly elderly in-patients, in Beijing Tuesday, one of the deadliest fires in the Chinese capital in recent years.
Death toll in Beijing hospital fire rises to 29; cause under investigation
The death toll from a fire at a Beijing hospital rose to 29, with authorities suspecting that welding sparks from construction work caused the blaze.
Beijing hospital fire death toll rises to 29 as dozen people detained
The blaze at a private hospital forced dozens to evacuate and prompted some of those who were trapped to escape from windows using bedsheets tied together.
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