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Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:21:06 +0800
'Inferior' women: Beijing hits back at Uighur claims
Beijing, under growing global pressure over its treatment of a Muslim minority in Xinjiang, is mounting an unprecedented and aggressive campaign to push back, including explicit attacks on women who have made claims of abuse. As allegations of human...

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:07:02 +0800
Journalists in China see 'rapid decline in freedom'
China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a "rapid decline in media freedom," the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday. For the third year in a row,...

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:32:18 +0800
China reports 19 new Covid cases, no deaths
Mainland China reported 19 new Covid-19 cases on February 28, up from six cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Monday. The National Health Commission, in a statement, said all of the new cases were imported infections...

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:15:54 +0800
Dutch MPs say China committing genocide in Xinjiang
The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such move by a European country. Activists and UN rights experts say at least one million Muslims...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:57:57 +0800
China approves two more domestic Covid vaccines
China's National Medical Products Administration said on Thursday that it had approved two more Covid-19 vaccines for public use, increasing the number of domestic vaccines approved in China to four. The two newly-approved vaccines are made by CanSi...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:22:08 +0800
Xi declares 'complete victory' in beating poverty
President Xi Jinping has declared "complete victory" in the country’s efforts to eradicate rural poverty at a ceremony in Beijing to celebrate what has been a signature initiative of his tenure. In a speech delivered on Thursday, Xi said this "ac...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:40:57 +0800
'West lying about HK to viciously vilify China'
A Chinese diplomat has told the UN Human Rights Council that the West is fabricating lies about Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet, as part of "vicious vilification of China". Chen Xu, head of the Chinese Mission to the UN in Geneva, condemned Britain, t...

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:08:04 +0800
Mainland reports 12 Covid cases
Mainland China reported 12 new Covid-19 cases on February 23, up from 10 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission, in a statement, said all of the new cases were imported infectio...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:09:23 +0800
China committing genocide in Xinjiang: Canadian MPs
Canadian MPs have voted to label Beijing's treatment of China's Uighur minority as genocide, hours after Beijing claimed its policy in Xinjiang is a "shining example" of human rights progress. Rights groups believe at least one million Uighurs and o...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:08:40 +0800
China home price rises see more momentum
New home prices in China grew at a faster pace in January, driven by red-hot demand in the country's mega cities despite several rounds of government cooling measures. Average new home prices in 70 major cities increased 0.3% in January from a month...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 01:12:06 +0800
Beijing slams 'fabricated accusations' on Xinjiang
China on Monday rejected "slanderous attacks" about conditions for Muslim Uighurs and other minorities living in its Xinjiang region, insisting that they enjoyed freedom of religion and labour rights. Activists and UN rights experts have said that a...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:22:22 +0800
China extends facial recognition system to monkeys
Mainland scientists are developing facial recognition technology so they can create an identity database of monkeys, Xinhua News Agency reports. A research team composed of scientists from Northwest University in Xi'an are hoping to use the technolo...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:10:59 +0800
Britain to challenge China at UN over Xinjiang
Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given "urgent and unfettered" access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the region. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will also mark Britain's return to the UN Human Rights C...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:24:22 +0800
'Dialogue the key to repairing Sino-US relations'
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi called on the administration of US President Joe Biden to work with Beijing to reopen dialogue between the two countries to restore a bilateral relationship damaged under the presidency of Donald Trump. Wang, a Chines...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:13:43 +0800
Indian, Chinese troops pull back from disputed area
India said on Sunday that its troops, along with their Chinese counterparts, had completed a pullback from a disputed part of their Himalayan border after months of heightened tensions. The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a border war in 1962 and ha...

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 09:47:56 +0800
China reports seven new Covid cases, no deaths
China on Sunday reported seven new Covid-19 cases on the mainland for February 20, compared with eight cases a day earlier, the health authority said. All the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement. Th...

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:34:44 +0800
China releases dramatic video of mountain clash
Dramatic footage released by Chinese state media purportedly shows deadly clashes between troops at the Indian border last year – a rare insight into violence at the tense, remote frontier. China's defence ministry on Friday named four soldiers k...

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:04:18 +0800
Mainland fighters buzz Taiwan's air zone
Taiwan's air force scrambled on Friday after eight Chinese fighter aircraft flew into the southwestern part of its air defence zone in another display of stepped-up military activity around the island. Beijing said it is responding to what it calls ...

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:10:15 +0800
China confirms 4 died in June clash on India border
Beijing on Friday named four soldiers killed in a brawl with Indian forces last year, the first Chinese confirmation of deaths from the border clash that also killed at least 20 Indian soldiers. The Chinese soldiers "sacrificed themselves" during th...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:51:42 +0800
China empties out military camps at disputed border
China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last summer, satellite images released on Wednesday show. ...



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