Chinese megacity limits outdoor lighting as record heat strains gridHangzhou, home to major companies like Alibaba, has banned nonessential landscape lighting to conserve energy amid extreme heat. With tempe...
06 Aug, 2024, 01.25 PM IST
Shanghai lifts home-buying curbs to boost property sectorShanghai eases property buying rules amidst a real estate crisis, reducing residency requirement to 3 years and minimum down payment to 20%...
28 May, 2024, 10.15 AM IST
Two Chinese megacities lift home purchase curbs to attract buyersHangzhou and Xian lifted home purchase limits to revive the real estate market impacted by the pandemic and borrowing rules. The move aims ...
09 May, 2024, 11.28 PM IST
Elderly patients fill hospitals in Shanghai Covid surgeCoughing, groaning, and gasping for breath, elderly Covid patients crammed hospital corridors in Shanghai on Tuesday as a wave of Covid-19 ...
03 Jan, 2023, 03.52 PM IST
Xi Jinping Step Down: Protestors call for Chinese President, Communist Party to resign amid strict Covid restrictionsViolence-filled rallies have recently broken out from Zhengzhou to Guangzhou in response to Covid restrictions and snap lockdowns, which ha...
28 Nov, 2022, 03.59 PM IST
COVID cases rise in Shanghai, other Chinese cities; preventive steps strengthenedLocal infections have risen to their highest since August this week, and the uptick is coinciding with increased domestic travel during the...
11 Oct, 2022, 10.15 AM IST
China export growth slows sharply in August: official dataThe weakness in trade comes as global demand for Chinese products weakens with energy prices soaring and the United States facing the threa...
07 Sep, 2022, 12.07 PM IST
Chinese city of 16 million to shut down over new Covid outbreakChina is the last major economy wedded to a zero-Covid policy, stamping out virus flare-ups with snap shutdowns, mass testing and lengthy q...
01 Sep, 2022, 11.15 AM IST
China's factory activity contracts unexpectedly in July amid COVID flare-upsThe official non-manufacturing PMI in July fell to 53.8 from 54.7 in June. The official composite PMI, which includes both manufacturing an...
31 Jul, 2022, 08.19 AM IST
China locks down city of 300,000 over single Covid caseChina is the last major economy glued to a zero-Covid policy, crushing new outbreaks with snap lockdowns, forced quarantines and onerous tr...
12 Jul, 2022, 02.14 PM IST
US warns of 'arbitrary' Covid measures in ChinaUntil March, China had kept cases low with snap lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but more than 100,000 cases have been repo...
09 Apr, 2022, 07.00 PM IST
China pledges further COVID-19 aid to Southeast AsiaChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations that China had already del...
08 Jun, 2021, 04.18 PM IST
One in five consumers in Mumbai, Bengaluru anxious about finances due to COVID-19: SurveyThe findings are based on a survey of 1,000 residents in Mumbai and Bangalore by the Swiss Re Group, a global reinsurer. The survey was con...
19 Jun, 2020, 04.44 PM IST
Imran Khan says Karachi attack caused by Chinese trade dealsThe assault in Pakistan’s largest city and financial hub left seven people dead.
23 Nov, 2018, 10.09 PM IST
China’s Wanda Group could soon sign agreement to develop megacity: Haryana CM Manohar Lal KhattarCM says the state is poised to attract big-ticket investments in several sectors including from other Chinese firms as it offers a slew of ...
30 Dec, 2015, 08.50 AM IST
China is building a megacity 'Jing-Jin-Ji' that will be larger than all of JapanIn its latest undertaking, the Chinese government has announced plans to make Beijing (current pop: 20 million) the center of an 82,000 squ...
24 Jul, 2015, 12.46 PM IST
China's urbanisation increases to 52.57% in 2012China's urban population accounted for 52.57% of the total population in 2012, up 1.3% points from a year earlier.
18 Jan, 2013, 03.34 PM IST