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Rights group urges China to release 'Bridge Man' Peng Lifa on second anniv
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded the immediate release of Peng Lifa, the man who unfurled banners critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his stringent "Zero-Covid" policy on Beijing's Sitong Bridge two years ago.
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Xi Jinping's governance mistakes look set to continue
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
In years past, Xi assessed that China was enjoying a "period of strategic opportunity", allowing him to focus on domestic development. However, Xi reported to the 20th Party Congress in 2022 that the nation had entered a period in which "strategic opportunities coexist with risks and chal
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Yearender 2023: China battles winter respiratory infection surge amid COVI
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared in November that the increase in hospitalizations in China is linked to regular winter diseases rather than new pathogens.
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Impact of COVID-19 far from over as families in China still grapple with t
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Families inside and outside of China are still dealing with the trauma from the first Covid wave even though China has declared the second wave to be over, US-based broadcaster, NBC News reported.
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China's economic recovery loses steam as factory production contracts furt
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The index, which mainly covers larger businesses and state-owned companies, was at its lowest level since December, CNN Business reported. Beijing scrapped most of its pandemic restrictions early that month, effectively ending its three-year-long zero-Covid policy.
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China witnesses fresh wave of Covid cases from XBB variants
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
According to official media sources, quoted by The Washington Post, leading Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan on Monday said that two new vaccinations for the XBB omicron subvariants (including XBB. 1.9.1, XBB. 1.5, and XBB. 1.16) have been given preliminary approval.
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Shares of Chinese Pharma companies spike amid sharp increase in COVID infe
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Amid a spike in COVID-19 infections in China, the shares of the Chinese pharmaceutical countries have also seen a massive increase in their values on Wednesday, Hong Kong-based The Standard reported.
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China demographic crisis: One child policy backfires; rising living costs
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
China's demographic crisis continue to deepen as the country's population planning initiative One Child Policy, which earlier forced families to have one child under its umbrella has now severely backfired, leading to population decline.
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China cuts medical benefits for seniors due to cash shortage
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The demonstrations, dubbed by Chinese media as a "grey hair movement," are another rare rebuke for authorities after widespread protests gripped the country in November against Covid lockdowns.
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India looking to produce electronic items that defy Western model of 'use
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to SCMP, India is also set to benefit from China's 'trust deficit' arising from zero-COVID policy that disrupted supply chains and prompted firms like Apple and Foxconn to look elsewhere.
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Chinese city suggests lockdowns for flu, faces criticism on social media
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A Chinese city has received negative feedback on social media after saying it might consider using lockdowns in the case of an influenza outbreak, CNN reported.
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China: Arrest of youngsters, who took part in white paper protests, contin
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Many of the protesters who took part in the November 2022 street demonstrations in China against President Xi Jinping's "Zero-Covid" policy are no longer alive. Not only the public memory of these events is fading, but it's possible that the protests themselves may be forgotten in China as a
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