Sutirtho Patranobis
Hindustan Times
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China to ‘unswervingly’ follow zero-Covid as outrage grows against policy
The alleged suicide of a middle-aged woman stuck in quarantine for weeks in a northern Chinese city added to the gathering outrage against the country’s strict infection control policies → Read More
Emojis increasingly being used as evidence in Chinese courts: Report
Chinese courts have taken cognizance of emojis in at least 158 cases filed across the country since 2018, local media reports said this week | World News → Read More
Xi Jinping to visit Hong Kong, his first trip outside mainland since Jan, 2020
The last time Xi went outside the mainland was in January, 2020, to Myanmar. China declared Covid-19 to be transmissible between humans within a day of Xi’s return, locked down Wuhan in five days and gradually closed international borders in the coming weeks → Read More
China releases world’s most detailed moon map yet
China has released a new geological map of the moon, which it says is the most detailed to date, registering even finer details of the lunar surface than mapped by the US in 2020 → Read More
China: Shanghai likely to reopen on June 1 with Covid-19 spread curbed
The country’s financial hub and its 25 million residents have spent more than six weeks in an agonising lockdown, which frustrated many, impacted the global supply-chain and contributed to a slowdown in China’s economic activity → Read More
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE: Russia warns of nuclear war, Kyiv wants UN to seek Mariupol evacuation
LIVE: Mariupol has been decimated by fierce fighting over the past two months. The capture of the city would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014. → Read More
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE: Russia renews Mariupol attack, 8 dead as missiles hit Odesa
LIVE: The UN chief will visit Moscow to meet with Putin on Tuesday. “He hopes to talk about what can be done to bring peace to Ukraine urgently,” said UN associate spokesperson Eri Kaneko. → Read More
China’s health minister rules out relaxation of Covid rules: Report
In a front-page article published in Study Times, an important CPC journal affiliated to the party school, Ma urged the country to stick to the dynamic zero policy → Read More
Shanghai reports 3 Covid-19 deaths among unvaccinated elderly, over 22,000 cases
Shanghai, the city of around 25 million residents have been logging more than 20,000 Covid-19 cases daily for days but until Monday’s announcement authorities had maintained no one had died of the infection. → Read More
Russia-Ukraine war LIVE updates: No Ukrainian troops were at station hit by rockets, says Zelenskyy
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Speaking on the path of war, US officials have warned that the war in Ukraine may last for weeks or even years. → Read More
Russian foreign minister in China on first visit since Ukraine war
Wang said Chinese and Russian relations had “withstood the test of international turbulence” and there was an increased willingness by them to develop relations that had “grown resiliently” → Read More
China sees record cases in March as Shanghai expands lockdown
China logged more than 70,000 domestic Covid-19 cases in March, the National Health Commission said, the largest number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 → Read More
China plane crash: ‘No survivors’ after emergency workers comb site for 18 hours
The Boeing 737-800 flight from Kunming in southwest China to southern China’s Guangzhou city crashed on Monday afternoon, the first passenger jetliner crash in the country since 2010 → Read More
China says national wounded while trying to leave Ukraine
The Chinese national was wounded the same day that the country’s foreign minister conveyed concerns to his Ukrainian counterpart over the harm to civilians in the fighting in the Eastern European country → Read More
Pak PM to join Xi, Putin at opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics
Imran Khan is also scheduled hold bilateral talks with the Chinese president and premier on the sidelines of the Games → Read More
Beijing on alert after Omicron case
Beijing will require travellers to get a Covid-19 test within 72 hours of arrival in the Chinese capital → Read More
China expects ‘certain number’ of Covid cases due to Olympics arrivals
Officials urged participants to get their booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccines before coming for the Games | World News → Read More
China’s 2020 birth rate was lowest in 43 years
The country’s birth rate fell below one percent in 2020, marking the lowest rate of childbirth in 43 years, official statistics have revealed, state-run tabloid Global Times reported on Saturday. → Read More
We tested ‘space vehicle’ and not a hypersonic missile, clarifies Chinese govt
Asked to share details about the reported testing, the Chinese foreign ministry on Monday denied it. → Read More
Popular Chinese app WeChat suspends new registrations
In a social media post, Tencent-owned WeChat, known as Weixin in China, said the suspension was related to an upgrade of security technology “according to relevant laws and regulations” | World News → Read More