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COVID-19 origin: New life to Wuhan lab-leak theory
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Eighteen months since China reported the first patient with Covid-19 like symptoms, the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread like wildfire over the world claiming the lives of over 35 lakh people and infecting over 16.8 crore in more than 180 countries.
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Chinese skyscrapers pose high risk to public safety
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 26 (ANI): One of the Chinese high-rise building in SEG Plaza started to tremble last week posing hish risk to public safety that has led to waning of Beijing's enthusiasm for skyscrapers.
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China to expand top office in Hong Kong with national security and propaga
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, May 25 (ANI): As the Chinese government continues to reform Hong Kong's legislative process, Beijing's top office overseeing the city's affairs will be expanded to create two new departments covering national security and propaganda in the communist country's bid to win the "ideol
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Amid US operations in S. China Sea, PLA warplanes rain down thousands of m
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): As Beijing's assertiveness continues to grow in the South China Sea despite international pressure, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Monday announced that it recently conducted a live-fire exercise in the sea, where warplanes rained down thousands of munit
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'Isolated incidents' won't affect cooperation: China after Lithuania pulls
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): After Lithuania decided to opt out of Beijing's '17+1' grouping, China on Monday said such 'isolated incidents' will not affect its cooperation with Central and Eastern European countries.
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China's rising assertiveness made it impossible for Philippines' Duterte t
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Manila [Philippines], May 25 (ANI): China's rising assertiveness in the South China Sea and challenges to the Philippines' internationally recognized maritime claims have made it practically impossible for President Rodrigo Duterte to advance his Beijing-leaning foreign policy agenda, Asia T
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Disused copper mine in southwest China becomes focus of calls for thorough
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): A disused copper mine in the outskirts of a village deep in the mountains of southwest China has become the centre of attention for escalating calls for a more thorough probe into whether the COVID-19 pandemic could have stemmed from a Chinese laboratory.
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Five killed in boat accident in northeast China
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Five people have been confirmed dead and four others remain missing after a fishing boat capsized and sank in a river in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province Saturday, local authorities said Tuesday.
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China lauds Pakistan PM Imran Khan's remarks on CPEC project
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): China on Tuesday said it appreciated Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's recent remarks on how the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project will bring economic progress not only to Pakistan but to the entire region.
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Congo seeks cobalt mine deals review, jeopardises China's aim of leading g
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi said that he wants to review a number of deals struck with foreign mining companies in a move that could have an impact on China's ambitions to become the world's leading manufacturer of elec
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PLA aims to roam the world
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, May 25 (ANI): The year 2008 was a seminal one for the Chinese military, as in December the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) dispatched a naval task force to the Gulf of Aden on what has turned out to be continuous presence. It was a watershed, as China proceeded to establish t
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Jack Ma to step down as head of business school he founded, amid clampdown
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, May 25 (ANI): Chinese billionaire Jack Ma will be stepping down as the President of Hupan, an elite business school he founded, suggesting a further retreat from public life by Beijing's most prominent entrepreneur in the face of government pressure on the tech industry.
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