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Sri Lankan plaque scripted in Chinese evokes fury, concern over omission o
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 25 (ANI): Concerns over the elevation of Chinese languages over official languages of Sri Lanka have emerged after a plaque made to declare the opening of a Chinese-gifted Smart Library of Attorney General's (AG) Department was scripted in Sinhalese, English and Chin
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Import vaccines to ramp up vaccination against COVID-19, says Dr Gagandeep
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): India should get more COVID-19 vaccine doses through import but globally there is a vaccine shortage and the option with the government is to buy Russian or Chinese vaccines, says Dr Gagandeep Kang, a top virologist.
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Evidence of COVID-19 originating from Chinese lab continues to grow: Forme
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [China], May 25 (ANI): The former head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday said that circumstantial evidence of COVID-19 originating in a lab in China's Wuhan continues to grow as researchers are yet to prove that the virus jumped from an animal to humans, The H
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Disused copper mine in southwest China becomes focus of calls for thorough
Updated : 5 years, 3 months 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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Swiss Tibetan held 1000-km solo-cycle rally to raise awareness about Chine
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 25 (ANI): A Swiss-Tibetan held a solo cycle rally of 1000 kilometres from Winterthur to Geneva to raise awareness about the violent repression by China in Tibet.
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Evidence suggests leak of coronavirus from Wuhan lab, CCP must be held acc
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 25 (ANI): Every piece of evidence points to a leak of coronavirus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), said US former state secretary Mike Pompeo, adding that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must be held "accountable".
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7 killed in gas leakage incident in Chinese factory
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Sichuan [China], May 25 (ANI): Seven people were suffocated to death following a toxic gas leakage at a food processing factory in China's Sichuan Province.
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PLA aims to roam the world
Updated : 5 years, 3 months 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, 3 months 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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Covid-19: Pakistan to launch locally-made Chinese vaccine from next week
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 25 (ANI): Pakistan's state-run National Institute of Health (NIH) has managed to locally produce the first batch of China-made single-dose coronavirus vaccine CanSino.
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China opposes mention of Taiwan in US, S Korea joint statement
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): China has expressed strong opposition to a mention of Taiwan in a joint statement issued following the in-person summit between US President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in.
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Chinese funding in Africa raises concerns of ability of nations to 'pay ba
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 24 (ANI): As China is funding and building a growing number of government and parliament buildings, police headquarters and more in Africa to cement its relations across the continent, concerns have been raised over the potential of African nations to 'pay back' Beijing.
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