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Shanghai, which is aiming for a June 1 complete exit from a stringent city-wide lockdown, is gradually and cautiously unwinding COVID curbs

Updated On: 02 Aug 2023 | 10:50 AM IST

The Quad meet upped the ante against Beijing

Updated On: 24 May 2022 | 11:54 PM IST

China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best protection against Covid

Updated On: 24 May 2022 | 12:52 PM IST

A surprised and agitated Beijing on Monday denounced President Joe Biden's assertion that the US would intervene militarily along with Japan if China invaded self-ruled Taiwan

Updated On: 23 May 2022 | 8:04 PM IST

More than two years after a deadly strain of coronavirus was first identified in the central city of Wuhan, China remains locked in a COVID crisis

Updated On: 23 May 2022 | 10:11 AM IST

Beijing extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing Monday as cases of Covid-19 again rose in the city.

Updated On: 23 May 2022 | 9:55 AM IST

This would be the Minister's first bilateral visit abroad since assuming office in April, the Ministry said, adding that it is "part of the high-level exchanges between the two sides"

Updated On: 22 May 2022 | 7:17 AM IST

Shanghai cautiously works to restore transport services; Shanghai reports mostly zero new community cases this week; Beijing on edge as new infections keep appearing

Updated On: 21 May 2022 | 6:06 PM IST

Despite Beijing's claim of a 'Zero Covid-19 Policy' in the country, the covid cases in China have been witnessing a surge on a regular basis

Updated On: 21 May 2022 | 2:36 PM IST

Shanghai's lockdown since the beginning of April has dealt a heavy economic blow to China's most populous city, stirred debate over the sustainability of the nation's zero-COVID policy

Updated On: 21 May 2022 | 1:47 PM IST

Beijing will extend strict and tight Covid-19 control measures as hidden community-level transmission has been discovered through recent screenings, a municipal official said.

Updated On: 21 May 2022 | 12:07 PM IST

China, in a monthly fixing, lowered the five-year loan prime rate (LPR) by 15 basis points to 4.45%, the biggest reduction since China revamped the mechanism in 2019

Updated On: 21 May 2022 | 2:26 AM IST

Investment management Morgan Stanley has forecast that global economic growth would be less than half of 2021 due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the surge of Covid-19 in China

Updated On: 19 May 2022 | 1:35 PM IST

The city will also restart 273 bus lines connecting major urban centers, airports, train stations and hospitals as it resumes cross-district public transit

Updated On: 19 May 2022 | 1:15 PM IST

Shanghai also reported four new deaths due to the infection in last 24 hours

Updated On: 16 May 2022 | 10:46 AM IST

Shanghai also reported 1,487 locally-transmitted asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus on Friday, out of a total of 1,726 local asymptomatic carriers newly identified on the mainland

Updated On: 14 May 2022 | 11:22 AM IST

While "supply-chain disruption" is emerging once more as the most repeated phrase of corporate earnings season, the impact goes beyond multinationals' profits

Updated On: 14 May 2022 | 7:54 AM IST

Shanghai also reported 1,869 locally transmitted asymptomatic infections, out of a total of 2,140 such cases newly identified on the mainland

Updated On: 13 May 2022 | 8:46 AM IST

China kept infection numbers low until early this year with a strategy that shut down cities, but entailed soaring costs

Updated On: 12 May 2022 | 12:19 PM IST

Lam's comments came a day after a carefully vetted election committee voted overwhelmingly to approve John Lee, a hard-line security chief who oversaw a crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement

Updated On: 10 May 2022 | 1:02 PM IST