Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese townsChina - Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 m...
24 Dec, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
Growing defiance of Covid curbs in China brings wave of arrestsThe Chinese public have been largely supportive of the zero-COVID policy that kept the virus at bay for the two years after it emerged in t...
16 Apr, 2022, 12.47 AM IST
Chinese city of Langfang goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threatThe number of new cases in mainland China reported on Tuesday remained a small fraction of those seen at the height of the outbreak in earl...
12 Jan, 2021, 09.01 PM IST
China stocks advance most in a month as developers lead gainsThe Shanghai Composite Index closed 1.6 per cent higher. The benchmark gauge of real estate companies surged 4.7 per cent,the most since Ma...
14 Aug, 2016, 11.06 AM IST
Five Chinese cities on red alert for smogChina's pollution woes today worsened as four more Chinese cities joined capital Beijing in issuing their first-ever red alerts, the most s...
23 Dec, 2015, 09.47 PM IST
40 Chinese cities hit by worst smog of the yearBeijing, together with the cities of Baoding, Handan, Langfang and Xingtai in the neighbouring Hebei Province, have issued red alerts, the ...
22 Dec, 2015, 03.35 PM IST
China's top policy maker pleads to guilty to graft charges"Each morning as I wake up, I wonder where I am and how I have fallen into this state of deprivation," said Liu, adding he also led his son...
24 Sep, 2014, 09.16 PM IST
China's top economic policy maker stands trial for corruptionThe court released a photo of Liu, clad in a black jacket and standing stiffly in court flanked by two uniformed court police officers.
24 Sep, 2014, 03.37 PM IST
China to be world's 3rd largest natural gas producer in 2035Energy-hungry China, which currently imports most of its oil and gas, is expected to become the world's third-largest natural gas producer ...
12 Sep, 2013, 07.30 PM IST