HONG KONG: Chinese authorities were preparing on Sunday (Apr 30) to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicising videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and another person familiar with his case said. Fang Bin and other members of the pu...

China is on a trajectory to achieve military superiority over the United States by midcentury, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley warned members of Congress on March 29. Testifying at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense’s 2024 budget requests, Milley no...

Chinese regulators held a meeting with banks to gauge their interest in taking over Silicon Valley Bank’s stake in a local joint venture, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. China's Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission convened a meeting this week to discuss the offloading of SVB’s 50% holdi...

BEIJING (AFP):The Chinese military said it had tracked a US warship in the South China Sea on Thursday (March 23) and "warned it to leave" waters claimed by Beijing China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea -- a strategic waterway through which trillions of dollars in trade pas...

German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, who once claimed that COVID-19 vaccination was free of side effects, admitted last week that he was wrong, saying adverse reactions occur at a rate of one in 10,000 doses and can cause “severe disabilities.” On Aug. 14, 2021, Lauterbach said on Twitter that...

The US arrested exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui on Wednesday, charging him with orchestrating a conspiracy to defraud thousands of online followers out of more than US$1 billion. At his arraignment late Wednesday afternoon before US Magistrate Judge Katharine Parker, Guo pleaded not guilty to ...

A Chinese city has sparked a backlash on social media after saying it would consider the use of lockdowns in the event of an influenza outbreak. The city of Xi’an – a tourism hotspot in Shaanxi province that is home to the famous terracotta warriors – revealed an emergency response plan this week th...

HELSINKI (Sputnik) - Finland will impose restrictions for Chinese tourists due to the COVID-19 situation in China if no measures are proposed at the European level, Finnish Minister for Family Affairs and Social Services Krista Kiuru said. Earlier, European Commission spokesman Tim McPhie said at a...

A former official of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the country’s central bank, has expressed disappointment that China’s digital yuan is seeing little use. Xie Ping, a former PBOC research director and current finance professor at Tsinghua University, made critical public comments about China’s...

Around 70% of Shanghai's total population has been infected by COVID during the recent surge in China, a senior doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals expressed recently as reported by the state media on Tuesday.  "Now the spread of the epidemic in Shanghai is very wide, and it may have reached 7...

Malaysia says it will start screening the waste water of flights from China for Covid-19 – but not test travellers – as the Southeast Asian nation prepares for the world’s most populous country to reopen its borders. Anxiety is rippling out across Asia over the possibility of new Covid variants and...

Dispensaries in Tokyo are running low on cold antidotes as customers from China snap up supplies A wave of infections is spreading across China after it abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy, triggering shortages of fever drugs Pharmacies in Tokyo are imposing a purchase limit on cold medicines ...