BEIJING: The southern Chinese city of Zhuhai suspended public bus routes on Saturday after announcing it had detected at least seven cases of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant there and warning residents not to leave the city. The coastal city of Zhuhai, which borders the gambling hub Macau, said late Friday Omicron had been … Read more
TIANJIN – North China’s Tianjin Municipality will launch the third round of citywide nucleic acid testing at 7 a.m. Saturday, said the municipal epidemic prevention and control headquarters. The mass testing is scheduled to be completed in about 24 hours, it added. The municipality of 13.9 million people that neighbors Beijing has conducted two rounds … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Malaysia reported another 3,198 COVID-19 infections as of midnight Wednesday, bringing the national total to 2,795,233, according to the health ministry. Another 303 new cases are imported, with 2,895 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Fifteen more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll … Read more
BEIJING – The number of new energy cars registered in China reached 7.84 million in 2021, up more than 59 percent year on year, data from the Ministry of Public Security showed Tuesday. The figure represents 2.6 percent of the total number of cars in the country, said the ministry, adding that China has seen … Read more
BEIJING – China on Tuesday unveiled new guidelines to ease pressures on foreign trade companies and keep the country’s exports and imports stable. The country will further open up the economy and carry out cross-cyclical adjustments to support medium, small and micro-sized foreign trade companies, and guarantee their orders and stabilize expectations, according to the … Read more
BEIJING – China has been subject to a new wave of nagging criticism by some foreign media over its zero-COVID approach after the highly contagious Omicron variant slipped through its defensive line in Tianjin, an international port city in north China. While every anti-epidemic strategy is dynamic and by no means impervious to change, China’s people-centred … Read more
BEIJING: Five million residents of a central Chinese city started home confinement Tuesday in a new lockdown to curb the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to state media. Beijing is on high alert for new outbreaks as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics next month, sticking to a … Read more
BEIJING: One of China’s biggest tutoring firms has said it shed tens of thousands of staff last year, revealing the extent of damage to the multibillion-dollar sector as Beijing cracks down on private education. China imposed new rules on tutoring companies in 2021, to force them to go non-profit as part of a series of … Read more
BEIJING: China reported more cases of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant on Monday, with authorities on high alert over flare-ups in major cities just weeks ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The emergence of the fast-spreading variant is yet another test of China’s zero Covid strategy, with authorities already battling several outbreaks — including … Read more
BEIJING – On New Year’s eve, President Xi Jinping delivered his 2022 New Year address through China Media Group and the Internet. My greetings to you all. The year 2022 is approaching. From Beijing, I extend New Year wishes to all of you! The past year has been a year of exceptional significance. We have … Read more
BEIJING: The Chinese capital Beijing is striving to notch a year-on-year GDP growth of over 5 per cent this year, local authorities said on Thursday. The city also aims at maintaining its consumer price index (CPI) increase within 3 per cent, compared with the previous year. The targets were unveiled in the government work report … Read more
BEIJING – Beijing made a breakthrough in its air pollution treatment as the city reached the national air quality standard, local authorities said Tuesday. The city’s average concentration of PM2.5 was 33 micrograms per cubic meter in 2021, the lowest level since records began in 2013, Yu Jianhua, deputy director of the Beijing municipal ecology … Read more
BEIJING – Municipal parks in Beijing received around 660,000 visitors during the three-day New Year holiday, with stringent COVID-19 precautions in place, local authorities said. The 11 municipal parks and the Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture saw 659,900 visits during the holiday that started on Jan. 1, a rise of about 52.7 percent … Read more
China on Monday unveiled two shortened negative lists for foreign investment, as part of efforts to further open up the economy and promote high-quality economic development. This marks the fifth consecutive year that the world’s second largest economy has revised its national negative list and pilot free trade zone (FTZ) negative list. The number of … Read more
BEIJING: The Beijing Winter Olympics will be spread over three zones and merge new venues with existing ones from the 2008 Games, including the “Bird’s Nest” stadium. With one month to go, AFP Sport looks at where the Olympics will take place: Beijing The 80,000-seater “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium — whose cross-hatched steel girders produce a nest-like … Read more
BEIJING: The Beijing Winter Olympics begin one month on Tuesday with diplomatic boycotts, the coronavirus and the fate of Peng Shuai all hanging heavy over the Games. The Chinese capital on February 4-20 will become the first host of a Winter and Summer Olympics, having staged the Games in 2008, seen then as a coming-out party for … Read more
BEIJING: Getting wine, chocolate, and coffee into China could get even harder from Saturday, with new import restrictions, adding fresh hurdles for the foreign companies bringing products into the world’s largest market for food and drink. Chinese consumers bought $108 billion worth of imported produce in 2020, with that number set to grow for 2021 as … Read more
BEIJING: Manufacturing activity in China edged up in December, official data showed Friday, beating expectations as the price of commodities eased and despite sporadic closures due to Covid outbreaks. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key gauge of manufacturing activity, in the world’s second biggest economy rose to 50.3, remaining above the 50-point mark separating growth … Read more
BEIJING: Footballers playing in China’s national team should remove any existing tattoos and are “strictly prohibited” from getting any new ones, the country’s sports administration body has said. The sport has found itself in the crosshairs of the Communist Party’s purity drive in recent years, and players on the national football team routinely cover their … Read more
BEIJING: Chinese web users slammed billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday after Beijing said its space station took evasive action to avoid hitting two of his SpaceX satellites, dealing a blow to the tycoon’s reputation in a country that has embraced his Tesla electric cars. China’s Tiangong space station was forced to take “preventive collision avoidance control” … Read more
BEIJING: Beijing has tightened the rules on overseas listings by Chinese firms in a series of new regulations that increase scrutiny of companies seeking to raise funds on foreign stock markets. China has stepped up scrutiny of major overseas listings after a controversial New York IPO by ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing went ahead this year, despite … Read more
BEIJING: February’s Beijing Winter Olympics look set to be the strictest mass sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic. AFP Sport looks at what measures athletes and others can expect to face in the “bubble” and how that compares to last summer’s virus-delayed Tokyo Games. What is the ‘closed loop’? China, where the virus emerged towards the end … Read more
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — Major countries must shoulder their responsibilities, take the lead to provide COVID-19 vaccines for low-and middle-income countries, and help them foster production capacity as the Omicron variant is rapidly spreading around the globe, said Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang on Tuesday. “As the Omicron variant is rapidly … Read more
HONG KONG: The Hong Kong’s strict adherence to a zero-Covid strategy is damaging the hub’s aviation industry and “killing” Cathay Pacific, a major shareholder in the city’s home carrier told local media. Following Beijing’s lead, Hong Kong has maintained some of the world’s strictest quarantine measures and travel curbs, which has kept the city coronavirus-free … Read more
BEIJING: Chief representative of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) in China, Shaikh Muhammad Shariq, has said that his bank is committed to provide maximum banking facilitation to the Chinese businessmen during the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The NBP has provided maximum banking facilitation during the first phase of CPEC and is … Read more
HONG KONG: Chinese real estate firm Shimao Group’s share price plunged to its lowest level in a decade on Tuesday, adding to the concerns over the country’s heavily indebted property sector. The Chinese property firms have struggled in the wake of Beijing’s drive last year to curb excessive debt in the real estate sector, as well … Read more
SHANGHAI, Dec 14, 2021 (AFP) – State-owned China Mobile has received approval to list publicly in Shanghai, documents showed, nearly a year after it was delisted in the United States along with two other Chinese telecom giants as tensions between Beijing and Washington soared. China Mobile plans to issue up to 845.7 million shares, according to … Read more
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese and British scientists mapped out how humans’ interneurons, a pivotal type of neuron that enables advanced human activities, develop in infancy, providing clues for the treatment of mental and developmental issues. The study, published on Friday in the journal Science, reported two populations of precursor human interneurons with features … Read more
