China's record mergers in $8 trillion small banking sector raises future risksChina executed its largest rural bank consolidation in 2024, merging 290 banks and cooperatives into larger regional lenders. Analysts warn...
12 Feb, 2025, 10.30 AM IST
Organisers of deadly 2021 China ultramarathon sentenced to jailFive individuals involved in planning the ill-fated event were issued jail terms ranging from three years to five and a half years by a cou...
16 Dec, 2023, 01.28 PM IST
Blank sheets of paper become symbol of defiance in China protestsChina is adhering to its tough zero-COVID policy even while much of the world tries to coexist with the coronavirus. The latest wave of ang...
27 Nov, 2022, 05.52 PM IST
China's Covid 19 cases touch record high; Beijing resorts to community lockdownsThe National Health Commission reported 31,444 local infections on Thursday, surpassing 29,317 cases recorded on April 13 during the height...
24 Nov, 2022, 07.11 PM IST
China virus cases at six-month high despite grinding lockdownsChina reported its highest daily Covid caseload in six months Monday, despite grinding lockdowns that have heavily disrupted manufacturing,...
07 Nov, 2022, 10.53 AM IST
China COVID cases surge to 6-month high as tensions in affected cities buildNew locally transmitted cases rose to 3,871 on Thursday, according to regular data released by the National Health Commission, the highest ...
04 Nov, 2022, 02.44 PM IST
Hundreds of flights cancelled as China tackles Covid outbreakThe world's most populous nation has reduced infection numbers to a trickle since its initial epidemic last spring thanks to a zero-toleran...
29 Oct, 2021, 02.11 PM IST
Third Chinese city placed under COVID-19 lockdownThe country has taken a zero tolerance approach to the virus since it first emerged in central China in 2019, stamping out emerging flare-u...
28 Oct, 2021, 01.49 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
Flights cancelled, schools closed as China fights virus outbreakBeijing has maintained a relentless zero-Covid approach with strict border closures and targeted lockdowns, even as other countries tentati...
21 Oct, 2021, 11.58 PM IST
Sinopharm to inject Rs 4.6 billion vaccine assets into unit Tiantan BiologicalSinopharm aims to begin the injection of six vaccine-focused biological products developers including makers of two COVID-19 vaccines into ...
16 Apr, 2021, 11.07 AM IST
How a vaccine plant leak infected over 6,000 people in China in one single outbreakBrucellosis is a zoonotic infectious disease, or a disease in animals that can spread to humans. It is caused by a bacteria that affects sh...
06 Nov, 2020, 11.34 AM IST
Xi Jinping’s debt clampdown has left a trail of dead projectsEconomists and policy makers see the restraints on borrowing as a necessary step toward choking off some of the nation’s construction and i...
16 Jan, 2018, 10.32 AM IST
Chinese city deploys helicopters to monitor trafficHelicopters have been enlisted in the northwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou to monitor traffic three days a week.
12 Dec, 2016, 07.28 PM IST
China opens first leg of high-speed railway in XinjiangChina opened first stretch of high-speed railway in western region of Xinjiang to promote economic development in hinterlands and bind them...
16 Nov, 2014, 03.40 PM IST
- China's bullet trains slow down over safety concerns
China today implemented a new operation plan for all high-speed trains across the country by cutting down their speed
28 Aug, 2011, 02.28 PM IST
- High-speed trains stars of China army drill
In a first, China's People's Liberation Army is going to use trains that move at speeds of up to 350km per hour to move thousands of troops...
12 Aug, 2009, 10.16 AM IST