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...
30 May, 2026, 09.43 AM IST
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...
21 May, 2026, 07.30 AM IST
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...
14 Jul, 2022, 06.42 PM IST
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...
25 Jun, 2022, 11.22 AM IST
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...
14 Jun, 2022, 06.17 PM IST
Beijing launches probe into bar blamed for capital's COVID surgeAll the city's bars, nightclubs, karaoke venues, internet cafes and other places of entertainment are being inspected, the paper said, with...
14 Jun, 2022, 01.09 PM IST
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...
13 Jun, 2022, 01.46 PM IST
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...
29 May, 2022, 12.49 PM IST
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...
24 May, 2022, 10.27 AM IST
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...
21 May, 2022, 10.54 AM IST
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...
09 May, 2022, 01.06 PM IST
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...
08 May, 2022, 08.58 AM IST
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,...
02 May, 2022, 11.58 AM IST
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...
30 Apr, 2022, 05.59 PM IST
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...
28 Apr, 2022, 10.47 AM IST
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 ...
25 Apr, 2022, 03.11 PM IST
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 ...
24 Apr, 2022, 12.08 AM IST