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One dies in big pileup on foggy Chinese bridge in Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou

One person was killed on Wednesday when more than 200 vehicles collided. Social media shows automobiles and trucks stacked on Zhengxin Huanghe bridge. In Zhengzhou, China, severe fog sometimes reduced visibility to 200 meters. One person was killed on Wednesday when more than 200 vehicles collided on a bridge in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou … Read more

Zhengzhou, China’s iPhone factory, ends Covid lockdown

iPhone

A five-day Covid shutdown in Zhengzhou, central China has been lifted, providing much-needed relief for Apple. Zhengzhou is the location of the largest iPhone manufacturing in the world. The complex is owned by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn and employs over 200,000 people. A five-day Covid shutdown in Zhengzhou, central China, the location of the largest … Read more

Chinese media reports angry protests at Zhengzhou iPhone factory

angry protests at Zhengzhou iPhone factory

Protests have broken out at the largest iPhone manufacturing in the world in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Foxconn, a manufacturer, declared that it would cooperate with local authorities and employees to stop further violence. The plant was shut down last month due to an increase in Covid cases which led several employees to leave … Read more

Anger over allegations that baby dies because care was delayed

Anger over allegations that baby dies because care was delayed

A man in Zhengzhou said that paramedics refused to visit his four-month-old baby because she was vomiting and having diarrhoea. China is dealing with a significant wave of the virus, with more than 20,000 cases reported every day. An investigation is being conducted. Online outrage has been quite strong in response to reports that a … Read more

China’s Henan reports 73 new COVID-19 local infections

China's Henan

ZHENGZHOU, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Central China’s Henan Province reported 64 new locally transmitted COVID-19 confirmed cases and nine local asymptomatic carriers on Wednesday, the provincial health commission said Thursday. Fifty of the new confirmed cases were reported in the province’s Xuchang City, while the provincial capital Zhengzhou has most of the new asymptomatic cases. … Read more

World’s earliest coin workshop found 

ZHENGZHOU: The world’s oldest coin minting workshop dating back about 2,500 years ago has been uncovered in central China’s Henan Province. Using radiocarbon dating, Chinese archaeologists have confirmed that a bronzeware casting workshop at the ruins of Guanzhuang in Xingyang City, the western part of the provincial capital Zhengzhou, Henan, had begun to mint standardized … Read more