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A worker places trays of food in the seafood section of a supermarket in Beijing on June 17, 2020. (AFP)

Beijing says it must improve hygiene in markets after new outbreak

The resurgence of COVID-19 in the country's capital over the past week has been linked to the city's massive Xinfadi...

18 Jun 2020 10:01 AM IST

Chinese police guard the entrance to the closed Xinfadi market in Beijing. (AFP)

Could Beijing become another Wuhan?

Concerns grow about a new cluster as China reports highest daily count since April

14 Jun 2020 9:10 AM IST

People gather on the street outside the closed Jingshen seafood market in Beijing on June 12, 2020. - Beijings Xinfadi meat wholesale market and Jingshen seafood market were closed for disinfection and environmental sample collection after it emerged both were visited by two newly identified coronavirus patients, local media reported. (AFP)

Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus...

Authorities had earlier halted beef and mutton trading at the Xinfadi market, alongside closures at other wholesale...

13 Jun 2020 10:20 AM IST

Rescuers carry a child to a boat during an evacuation of a flooded village in Qingyuan in southern Chinas Guangdong province. (AP)

At least 20 people dead or missing as rains flood South China

Nearly 3 million people have been affected by the floods with 228,000 forced to seek shelter and 1,300 homes destroyed

11 Jun 2020 6:29 PM IST

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said, China, Nepal and India are each others important neighbouring countries. The three parties should step up sound interaction for win win outcomes.

See what's behind the Sino-Indian reset'

China has regularly and repeatedly announced that its territorial claim is its sovereignty, hence it's non-negotiable.

8 May 2018 12:50 AM IST

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, women wearing protective masks chat with each other outside a Lego store at a reopened commercial street in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Monday, March 30, 2020. Shopkeepers in the city at the center of Chinas virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months. (Photo | AP)

Covid-19 epicentre Wuhan classified as 'low-risk area' as China...

Meanwhile, death toll remained at 4,632 as no new fatalities were reported on Saturday

19 April 2020 12:15 PM IST

US President Donald Trump at the Coronavirus briefing on Saturday. (AFP)

Trump calls China's official Coronavirus death toll 'unrealistic'

Trump asserted that the actual number was much more than the official death toll figures.

19 April 2020 11:59 AM IST

Passengers wearing face masks at Changsha railway station in China. (AFP Photo)

China denies covering up extent of Coronavirus outbreak amid US...

A foreign ministry spokesman acknowledged that the virus's rapid spread had contributed to undercounting.

17 April 2020 4:59 PM IST

A man wearing a facemask and plastic gloves amid the concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus uses an escalator at Beijing Capital International Airport. AFP photo

Fearing virus return, Beijing turns into virtual fortress

Between April 8 and April 13, some 1,037 people returned to Beijing from Wuhan. None tested positive for COVID-19

14 April 2020 9:26 AM IST

Employees are back at work at the construction site of the Wuhan Greenland Center, a 636-m high skyscraper in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP)

Tackling future Covids: Three things India needs to learn from China

We have an excellent disaster preparedness machinery. But it's time to have a disease preparedness system as well.

30 April 2020 11:59 PM IST

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, women wearing protective masks chat with each other outside a Lego store at a reopened commercial street in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Monday, March 30, 2020. Shopkeepers in the city at the center of Chinas virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months. (Photo | AP)

We may have had 700,000 more coronavirus cases if Wuhan were not...

A travel ban had been imposed on January 23, ahead of the lunar new year, China's biggest festival

1 April 2020 1:57 PM IST

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Chinese woman undergoes plastic surgery to evade $3.7 million debt

One court in Jiangsu province has drawn up a blacklist of defaulters.

30 July 2017 12:01 PM IST