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Tightening Covid net, Beijing deals out punishments, stark warnings

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

Message from Tokyo

The Quad meet upped the ante against Beijing

China's bet on homegrown coronavirus vaccines holds back country

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

Beijing bristles at Joe's 'yes' for US intervention if China invades Taiwan

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

As Covid becomes threat to the economy, how can Chinese leaders rescue it?

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

Beijing extends work-from-home, orders mass testing as Covid cases rise

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.

Pakistani FM Bhilawal Bhutto Zardari visits China for bilateral talks

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"

Shanghai makes way towards Covid lockdown exit, Beijing plays defence

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

China reports 181 new local cases of Covid; one death in Shanghai

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

Shanghai inches towards Covid lockdown exit, Beijing plays defence

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

Beijing extends Covid control measures amid community transmission

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.

China cuts borrowing rate more than expected to revive housing sector

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

Chinese economy continues to face pressure due to Covid, Ukraine crisis

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

China to reopen subways in Shanghai as Covid-19 restrictions ease

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

China logs 140 new local Covid-19 cases; 69 in Shanghai, 39 in Beijing

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

China reports 253 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, with 194 in Shanghai

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

From sneakers to Teslas, China lockdowns upend global supply chains

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

China records 312 new local Covid-19 infections with 227 cases in Shanghai

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

Chinese govt fights economic slump, prioritises costly 'zero Covid'

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

Hong Kong now has China patriots firmly in charge post polls: Carrie Lam

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