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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:41:34 +0800
Mainland consumer prices drop as spending eases
China's consumer prices fell in January after a brief improvement at the end of last year, as the world's second-biggest economy was hit by the impact of fresh coronavirus outbreaks and decreased travel, official data showed Wednesday. The consumer ...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:07:09 +0800
WHO experts 'still at loss over Covid transmission'
The World Health Organisation mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the animal source, scientists said on Tuesday. Experts believe the disease, which has gone on to kill more than 2.3 million people worldw...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:49:32 +0800
Publisher Geng Xiaonan jailed for three years
A Beijing court on Tuesday sentenced prominent publisher Geng Xiaonan to three years in prison after she confessed to conducting "illegal business operations", RTHK has learnt. According to the live stream of the court proceedings, Geng said she ple...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:13:11 +0800
No baby boom in China as births continue downtrend
The number of newborns in China plummeted 15 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Public Security, with the onset of the novel coronavirus disrupting the economy and weighing on decisions to have a family. China saw 10.0...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:29:36 +0800
China blocks access to discussion app Clubhouse
A rare uncensored app that had attracted Chinese internet users to freely discuss taboo topics, including the mass detention of Uighurs, democracy protests in Hong Kong and the concept of Taiwanese independence appeared to have been blocked on Monday...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:16:37 +0800
CGTN journalist 'held for supplying state secrets'
An Australian journalist who has been detained for nearly six months in China where she worked for a state-television channel has been formally arrested on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, Canberra and Beijing said on Monday. ...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:10:36 +0800
China reports 14 Covid cases
China reported 14 new mainland Covid-19 cases on February 7, official data showed on Monday, up slightly from a day earlier. All new cases originated from overseas. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed Co...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 01:24:25 +0800
China delivers 600,000 vaccine doses to Cambodia
China delivered 600,000 doses of its Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine to ally Cambodia on Sunday, making the kingdom the latest country to use Chinese jabs despite concerns about their efficacy compared to Western alternatives. Cambodian leader Hun Sen...

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 18:03:13 +0800
Covid whistle blower Dr Li Wenliang remembered
Scores of people flooded mainland social media on Saturday to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of doctor Li Wenliang, a whistle blower who sought to raise awareness of early Covid-19 infections in Wuhan before dying from the virus himse...

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:41:15 +0800
China's Mars probe sends back first image
China's maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe left Earth. The uncrewed Tianwen-1 took the picture at a distance of around 2.2 million...

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:55:34 +0800
Beijing blasts Washington over US warship's action
China on Friday warned off a US warship sailing near contested islands in the South China Sea, Beijing said, the first such encounter made public since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The USS John S. McCain "broke into China's Xisha territo...

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:04:17 +0800
Taiwan blames Beijing 'bullying' for Guyana U-turn
Taiwan on Friday blamed "bullying" by Beijing for Guyana's decision to revoke a deal for the island to open a representative office in the South American country, saying it had tried without success to get Guyana to change its mind. Taiwan had alrea...

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:59:03 +0800
UK must correct its mistake over CGTN: Beijing
China is "firmly opposed" to Britain's decision to revoke the licence of state broadcaster CGTN, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. A ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told a news briefing that Beijing urges the United Kingdom to "correct its mista...

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:26:20 +0800
China reports fewest virus cases in over a month
China reported the fewest new Covid-19 cases in over a month, official data showed on Friday, suggesting that the latest wave of the disease is subsiding ahead of the key Lunar New Year holiday period set to begin next week. The National Health Comm...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:16:40 +0800
UK revokes CGTN's licence; China blasts BBC
Britain's media regulator, Ofcom, said on Thursday that it has revoked China Global Television Network's (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK In a statement, the regulator also said it expected to shortly conclude separate sanctions proceedings aga...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 17:22:52 +0800
Guyana calls off opening of Taiwanese mission
Guyana on Thursday abruptly terminated an agreement with Taiwan to open an office in the South American country, hours after Beijing urged Georgetown to "correct their mistake." Taiwan's foreign ministry earlier on Thursday said it had signed an agr...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:21:36 +0800
Mainland's coronavirus total rises slightly
The central government reported 30 new Covid-19 cases on the mainland on February 3, official data showed on Thursday, up slightly from 25 cases a day earlier. The National Health Commission said in a statement that 17 of the new cases were locally ...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:35:17 +0800
Washington 'disturbed' by latest report on Xinjiang
The United States is "deeply disturbed" by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed t...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:20:50 +0800
No change to 'one-China' policy, Washington says
The US State Department said on Wednesday its support of a "one-China" policy over Taiwan has not changed. A statement issued by the Biden administration on January 23, its first Saturday in office, expressing strong support for Taiwan in the face o...

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:36:29 +0800
WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab
A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organisation on Wednesday visited a major virus research laboratory in China's central city of Wuhan, seeking clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Driving through thick morning ...



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