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US, China deepen media row as Donald Trump revokes Xinhua journalist’s visaAmerica has revoked the visa of a Chinese journalist working for Xinhua. This move follows Beijing's decision to expel a New York Times rep...
China's Xi may visit North Korea as early as next week: ReportChinese President Xi Jinping might visit North Korea next week. This visit could see him mediating between US President Donald Trump and No...
Some Beijing travelers asked to wear COVID monitoring bracelets, sparking outcryAccording to posts published on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning on microblogging platform Weibo, some Beijing residents returning to...
Beijing to reopen schools, Shanghai declares victory over COVIDBeijing shut its schools in early May and asked students to move to online learning amid a spike in locally transmitted COVID cases. Senior...
Beijing in 'race against time' to contain COVID surgeThe flare-up means millions of people are facing mandatory testing and thousands are under targeted lockdowns, just days after the city sta...
'Race against time' for Beijing to contain COVID surgeThe surge in cases means millions of people are facing mandatory testing and thousands are under targeted lockdowns.
COVID-19: Virus cluster at nightclub sets off new Beijing clampdownA total of 166 cases have been linked to the Heaven Supermarket club in the downtown Gongti nightlife area after an infected person visited...
Beijing, Shanghai ease Covid restrictions as outbreaks fadeThe lockdowns and other restrictions under China's "zero-COVID" strategy have increasingly frustrated residents as they see other countries...
Beijing ramps up COVID quarantine, Shanghai residents decry uneven rulesEven as China's drastic attempts to eradicate COVID entirely - its "zero-COVID" approach - bite into prospects for the world's second-bigge...
Thousands of Covid-negative Beijing residents sent to quarantineBeijing has been battling its worst outbreak since the pandemic started. The Omicron variant has infected over 1,300 since late April, lead...
Downtown Beijing goes quiet as zero-Covid policy smothers capitalBeijing residents fear they may soon find themselves in the grip of the same draconian measures that have trapped most of Shanghai's 25 mil...
As Beijing Covid outbreak proves stubborn, mass tests becoming routineMost of the 25 million people in the commercial hub of Shanghai, China's most populous city, had been confined to their housing compounds f...
Setback for Shanghai's COVID battle; Beijing focusses on mass testingShanghai residents breathed a sigh of relief at the weekend on news that no cases had been confirmed outside quarantine areas for two days,...
Beijing shuts dine-in services for holidays to stem outbreakRestaurants in Beijing have been ordered to close dine-in services over the May holidays as the Chinese capital grapples with a COVID-19 ou...
COVID-hit Beijing increases curbs, fears Shanghai-like miseryAs Beijing rolled out three rounds of mass testing this week across a number of districts, it locked down a number of residential compounds...
Beijing Covid spike prompts mass testing, panic buyingChina is already trying to contain a wave of infections in its biggest city Shanghai, which has been almost entirely locked down for weeks ...
Beijing on alert after COVID-19 cases discovered in schoolCity officials suspended classes in the school for a week following the positive test results on Friday. The Chinese capital also reported ...