As one country after another succumbed to outbreaks this year, China kept the coronavirus at bay, buying valuable time to prepare for the inevitable: a variant of the virus so shifty and contagious that China, too, would struggle to contain…
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Protesters clashed with police in the southern Chinese megacity of Guangzhou overnight Tuesday (29) into Wednesday (30), according to witnesses and footage, part of a wave of demonstrations across the country triggered by Covid restrictions
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China's major cities of Beijing and Shanghai were blanketed with security on Tuesday (29) in the wake of nationwide rallies calling for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns.
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 “Lift the lockdown,” the protesters screamed in a city in China’s far west. On the other side of the country, in Shanghai, demonstrators held up sheets of blank white paper, turning them into an implicit but powerful sign of defiance. One…
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Protests spread to cities and college campuses around China on Saturday (26) night, reflecting rising public anger at the country’s draconian COVID controls, with some in a crowd in Shanghai directing their fury at the Communist Party and…
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Barely a week after no longer requiring residents to show a negative COVID test to use mass transit, authorities in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang have locked down much of the city for five days as infections surge
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China reported two new deaths from COVID-19 on Monday (21), both elderly Beijing residents, as several major cities persisted with strict virus curbs despite a much-touted recent loosening
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Oil prices fell on Monday (Oct 31) after weaker than expected factory activity data out of China and on concerns that the country's widening COVID-19 curbs will curtail demand
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Tuberculosis case numbers increased last year for the first time in more than 20 years, fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic which disrupted access to diagnosis and treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday (27)
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Oil prices fell about 2% on Tuesday (11), extending the previous session's almost 2% decline, as recession fears and a flare-up in COVID-19 cases in China raised concerns over global demand
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