According to the author, the Communist Party realized that major economic and social distress would fracture the social contract if the country remains under the zero covid policy. And as a result, the zero COVID was jettisoned.
The spike of targeting hatred towards female journalists, human rights researchers and analysts of Asian descent may just be the result of a campaign run by China reported Voice of America (VOA)
Online trading platforms with easy registration and accessibility have spiked the number of investors in the domestic markets. The pattern was that the foreign investors or foreign institutional investors were selling the equities and these stocks were being bought by the domestic retail inv
In its annual report, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) said Pakistan security forces lost at least 282 personnel during 2022 in attacks that included IED ambushes, suicide attacks, and raids on security posts, mostly in the Pakistan-Afghan border regions.
The Chinese manufacturing sector saw a sizeable contraction in December along with a spike in cases of Covid-19 in the country as the workforce is prevented from going to work, The Global Times reported.
One of the most prominent trends during 2022 was the jump in retail investors. This spike in number was also due to the spawn of online trading platforms which may be apps in many cases that seem to stick to investors' imagination.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said that the global body remains concerned over the evolving situation in China as the COVID-19 infections witness a new spike in the country after curbs were eased.
In a new set of restrictions amid a spike in covid infections in China, the United States (US) will require all visitors from China to present a negative Covid-19 test result before boarding a flight to the country, CNN reported on Wednesday.
This comes after the Centre directed the states to conduct mock drills at all COVID hospitals as part of precautionary measures to check the preparedness of medical facilities in case of a spike in domestic COVID cases.
On December 26, around 4,23,000 domestic passengers travelled in the country that breached the pre-Covid high of 4,20,000. On December 24, the number of domestic travellers who took to flight was 4,35,500.
China's Zhejiang province, a manufacturing hub is recording around a million new COVID-19 cases in a single day and the situation has sparked concerns among people regarding its impact on supply chains, Nikkei Asia reported.