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Sandstorm causes severe air pollution, traffic disruptions in Beijing
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 15 (ANI/Sputnik): A strong sandstorm in the Chinese capital led to major traffic disruptions in the city on Monday morning, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
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Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 15 (ANI): During the search for the origin of the novel coronavirus, an international team of scientists have found 24 previously unknown bat coronaviruses, with four of them related to the strain that causes COVID-19, within a 4 km radius in southwestern China.
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Amazon removes China-made Sri Lankan flag doormat
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], March 14 (ANI): Amazon has removed the advertisement of the controversial doormat with the Sri Lankan flag produced by a Chinese firm from its website after Colombo raised the matter with Beijing and the e-commerce company.
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Once oppressed, Xinjiang's Uyghur women take on Chinese government
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 14 (ANI): Uyghur women have found themselves the targets of some of Beijing's cruellest tactics - featuring forced sterilisations and intrauterine devices (IUD) implantations--meant to slash birth rates, which dropped 24 per cent in 2019 in Xinjiang compared with 4.2 p
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Cash-strapped Chinese local governments urged not to 'blindly expand' infr
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 14 (ANI): China's top leadership has issued a warning about the 'heavy debt burden' of some local governments, saying greater monitoring is needed.
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China to conduct trial of two Canadian nationals for alleged espionage
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 14 (ANI): Canadian nationals Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were prosecuted by the procuratorates in China for suspected crimes undermining China's national security, will soon be tried, a source said.
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Japan lambasts Beijing over electoral changes in Hong Kong
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 14 (ANI): Japan has said that it “cannot overlook” the resolution passed by China’s National People’s Congress on Thursday to change the electoral system in Hong Kong, with Tokyo calling the new laws requiring all political candidates to be &ld
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'Chinese Communist Party strategy is turning harmless individuals, communi
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 13 (ANI): China's widespread propaganda, continuous persecution of minorities and return to the cult of personality represent an echo of Mao's rule, says political consultant Kelly Alkhouli and adds that the country's open disdain and demeaning methods have pushed mino
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China non-compliant with joint declaration on Hong Kong: UK
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], March 13 (ANI): The United Kingdom on Saturday said it considers China to be in a "state of ongoing non-compliance" with the Sino-British joint declaration after Beijing approved sweeping changes for tighter control over Hong Kong.
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Arbitrary detentions by Chinese govt instill fear among foreigners against
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Beijing [China], March 13 (ANI): The detention of a handful of foreigners in recent years have instilled a deep fear in some people against visiting China as relations between Beijing and the West worsened.
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Sri Lanka raises concerns with China over doormat using national flag prin
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], March 13 (ANI): After reports of Chinese-made doormats featuring Sri Lanka's national flag being sold online surfaced on social media, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry has raised its concerns with China and had called for a full-scale inquiry into the sale of such doormat
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China summons UK's ambassador over article on press freedom
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 13 (ANI): Beijing has summoned Britain's ambassador to China Caroline Wilson over an article on press freedom, escalating a bitter row between the two countries that has spilled over to the media industry.
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