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China: Businessmen, who criticised govt COVID-19 response, could face 25 y
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): Chinese businessmen Sun Dawu, who has been vocal in criticising Chinese authorities about its handling of the COVID-19, could face 25 years in prison if convicted on a range of charges against him.
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Chinese state media threatens Australia with missile strikes
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): Chinese state-media has threatened Australia with retaliatory ballistic missile strikes if Canberra gets involved in a potential military conflict over Taiwan.
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China blames 'abrupt' withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan for surge i
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): China has blamed the United States' "abrupt announcement of complete withdrawal of forces" for the succession of explosive attacks throughout Afghanistan, saying the step has worsened the security situation and has threatened peace and stability as well as peop
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Upcoming UN meet on Uyghur crackdown upsets China
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): Fuming over an upcoming UN video conference on Beijing's crackdown on the Uyghur Muslims, China has called on members of the United Nations not to attend the event, saying it "is based on sheer lies and political bias".
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China's population reaches 1.41 billion, grows by 5.38 pc in 10 years
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): China's population has grown by 5.38 percent over the last 10 years to reach the 1.41 billion mark, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said in a statement.
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'Stop hyping up Taiwan-related issues', China tells US
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): Opposing the growing calls for Taiwan's participation as an observer at World Health Assembly (WHA), China attacked the United States on Monday for supporting Taipei's bid at the table of WHO's decision-making body.
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Sania Mirza opens up on her battle with depression after 2008 Olympics
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): India tennis star Sania Mirza has opened up on her battle with depression and how she had issues with mental health after she had to pull out of the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
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Monuments to Soviet soldiers in China remain in good condition - Consul Ge
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Most of the monuments dedicated to the Soviet soldiers who died liberating China from the Japanese occupation during the Second World War are well-preserved, Russian Consul General in Harbin Vladimir Oshchepkov has told Sputnik.
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Chinese lawyer involved in Hong Kong fugitives' case barred from leaving c
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 10 (ANI): A lawyer in mainland China, who was deregistered after taking up the case of one of the Hong Kong fugitives captured while trying to flee to Taiwan, has been barred from leaving the country to the United States on national security grounds.
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European researchers raise alarm over China's attempts to suppress critici
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], May 10 (ANI): Some of Europe's China researchers have raised alarm over the repeated efforts of Chinese organisations to stifle criticism as Beijing seeks to aggressively crackdown on findings that cast the country in an unflattering light.
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China, Indonesia hold joint naval exercises near Jakarta
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 9 (ANI): Amid tensions in the South China Sea, China and Indonesia conducted joint naval exercises near Jakarta, Beijing said on Sunday.
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Chinese scientists discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses 5 years befor
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 9 (ANI): A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a "new era of genetic weapons" that could be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleash
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