Apple to keep iPhone production flat in 2022Apple had told its suppliers to speed up iPhone development after China's COVID-19 lockdowns hampered the schedule for at least one of the ...
26 May, 2022, 01.41 PM IST
China lockdowns, war risk derailing global jobs recovery: ILOThe U.N. agency estimated that there was the equivalent of 112 million fewer full-time jobs in the first quarter of 2022 compared with pre-...
23 May, 2022, 05.06 PM IST
Not a single car sold in Shanghai last month due to lockdownAlmost all dealerships in the city were closed during the month, the Shanghai Automobile Sales Association said in a statement Monday, when...
17 May, 2022, 12.09 AM IST
China's economy skids as lockdowns hit factories, retailersFull or partial lockdowns were imposed in major centres across the country in March and April, including the most populous city Shanghai, h...
16 May, 2022, 11.47 AM IST
In a haze of disinfectant, China struggles with invisible enemyChina is tied to a zero-Covid strategy, wielding snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines as part of unrelenting efforts to qua...
14 May, 2022, 01.02 PM IST
Shanghai lockdown could shave off about 2% of China's total GDPThe share of Shanghai's economy in China's total GDP amounts to more than 3.5 per cent. According to Statista, in 2021, GDP of Shanghai mun...
15 Apr, 2022, 12.25 PM IST
Shanghai residents scream from windows as China's COVID lockdown prevents them from leaving home for foodIn a clip posted online by a Twitter user that he said was taken by the father of his close friend who reported that "people (are) screamin...
12 Apr, 2022, 09.56 PM IST
Dog-culling, fight over cheap veggies: Tired Shanghai residents post videos of China's hardline virus measuresMany residents have tired of the government's grandstanding and social media has opened a window into their fury at food shortages, strict ...
07 Apr, 2022, 06.44 PM IST
COVID outbreak 'extremely grim' as Shanghai extends lockdownThe COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest metropolis of Shanghai remains "extremely grim" amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 milli...
05 Apr, 2022, 12.30 PM IST
Photos of Gucci & Bvlgari delivering veggies to customers locked down in Shanghai is winning the internet. But, are these memes or client servicing?Residents of Shanghai are sharing photos of exquisite vegetable and fruit baskets.
04 Apr, 2022, 12.21 PM IST
Surge of Omicron infections prompts lockdowns in ChinaChina is grappling with its largest surge of COVID-19 infections since the coronavirus first emerged more than two years ago in central Chi...
15 Mar, 2022, 11.19 AM IST
Nearly 30 million under lockdown in China as virus surgesChina reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, more than double the previous day's tally as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant s...
15 Mar, 2022, 10.11 AM IST
China shuts business center of Shenzhen to fight virus surgeEveryone in Shenzhen, a finance and technology center that abuts Hong Kong, will undergo three rounds of testing after 60 new cases were re...
13 Mar, 2022, 06.19 PM IST
Millions locked down as China wrestles worst virus outbreak in two yearsA nationwide surge in cases has seen authorities close schools in Shanghai, lock down central neighbourhoods in the southern tech powerhous...
13 Mar, 2022, 01.12 PM IST
China locks down city of 9 million amid new spike in Covid-19 casesChina reported another 397 cases of local transmission nationwide on Friday, 98 of them in Jilin province that surrounds Changchun. Just tw...
11 Mar, 2022, 07.18 PM IST
China locks down Lanzhou, city of 4 million, over Covid"All types of residential communities are to implement closed management," said the local government in a statement, as China reported 29 n...
26 Oct, 2021, 01.05 PM IST
Lockdown’s success in China offers hope for world’s virus fightNew cases of the virus transmitting within the country dropped to zero about eight weeks after the government’s massive quarantine of some ...
25 Mar, 2020, 05.01 PM IST