Tag: china
What happened: A report recently released by the Center for Global Policy suggests that more than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been forced into picking cotton. The findings of the report ...
What happened: Barcelona’s star forward, Antoine Griezmann has cut ties with Chinese company Huawei after reports of the company being involved in developing software contributing to the surveillance and persecution of the Uighurs in China. ...
What happened: China has planted its flag on the Moon more than 50 years after the US first planted its Star-Spangled Banner. The China National Space Administration on Friday released an image showing China’s national ...
In China, citizen journalists have been some of the most reliable real time sources of information about the outbreak and the efforts to contain it. Chen Quishi, a 34-year-old former lawyer, caught the last train into Wuhan ...
China is trying to ban people from playing the hugely popular Nintendo Switch game ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ because protesters are using the game to criticize President Xi Jinping and the government of Hong Kong. ...
On Monday, for the first time since the pandemic started, a human trial of a potential vaccine to COVID-19 was carried out in a medical centre in Seattle. The vaccine was developed by the National ...
A Chinese diplomat on Thursday backed Pakistan’s decision not to evacuate Pakistani students from the province at the centre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, a day after parents confronted government ministers demanding their children be brought ...
China accepted a special request from Pakistan to allow a two-member special task force from the Pakistan Embassy in Beijing to enter Wuhan and meet students in different universities to get an update on their ...
Chinese health officials Monday urged patients who have recovered from the coronavirus to donate blood so that plasma can be extracted to treat others who are critically ill. Drugmakers are racing to develop a vaccine ...
Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfikar Bukhari said Wednesday the government was setting up a quarantine centre at the Islamabad International Airport to effectively handle and screen the people coming from abroad. The ...
The coronavirus crisis in China is deepening as the number of people infected by the virus has reached 31,000 and a doctor who was punished after raising alarm about the outbreak died from the pathogen ...
Two officials in China have been removed from their posts after a teenager with cerebral palsy died when his father – and sole carer – was quarantined for suspected coronavirus. Yan Cheng, 16, was found ...
Millions more people have been ordered to stay indoors as China battles to curb the spread of a new coronavirus that authorities said on Wednesday has already killed nearly 500 people. With more than 24,000 cases in ...
Fears over the coronavirus triggered a sharp fall in Chinese shares when the market reopened after the Lunar New Year holiday. The Shanghai Composite index closed nearly 8% lower, its biggest daily drop for more ...
A doctor from Jhelum has been recognised for volunteering to treat patients suffering from coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. Taking to Twitter, the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan stated: ...
Two flights carrying passengers from China arrived in Islamabad on Monday as government resumed flight operations to the virus-hit country. A day after the World Health Organisation declared the epidemic a global health emergency, Pakistan ...
Rise in China fatalities follows first death outside the country – in the Philippines. The death toll in China from the deadly coronavirus outbreak that originated in the central city of Wuhan, rose to at least 361 on Monday, as ...
Within the past 24 hours, the World Health Organisation declared a global coronavirus emergency as the death toll in China jumped up to 213. Since the outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus, the world ...
China marked its most fatal day yet during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak Thursday as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a global health emergency. Chinese authorities reported more than 40 deaths Thursday, all of ...
As reported by The News, Pakistan’s top athletes will have to stay for a few more days in Nanjing, China due to flight issue. “They will have to stay for a few more days as ...
The “whole world needs to be on alert” to fight the coronavirus, the head of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme has said. The WHO will meet on Thursday to discuss whether the virus ...
Starbucks has closed half of its outlets in China to protect its staff and support government efforts to contain the coronavirus. The coffee shop chain warned that the rapidly expanding infection is likely to affect ...
British Airways has suspended all flights to and from mainland China as the Government finalises urgent plans to bring citizens back from the coronavirus-hit province of Hubei. The airline, which operates daily flights to Shanghai ...
Japan and the US have airlifted hundreds of their citizens from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, as officials in China said the death toll from the disease had risen sharply overnight to 132, with nearly ...
A group of Pakistani students have demanded that the government make efforts to rescue them from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, according to a video uploaded on social media. According to a student from ...
More than 10,000 personnel of the Punjab police deputed for the security of nearly 4,000 Chinese experts at various sites of CPEC across the province have been declared vulnerable to coronavirus. Special Protection Unit (SPU) ...
The Wuhan coronavirus that has killed at least 26 people in China hit the western region of Xinjiang on Thursday. At 6 p.m. local time health authorities reported a 47-year-old man, named as Li, and a 52-year-old ...
A man suspected to have contracted the coronavirus has been admitted to the Nishtar Hospital in Multan, the National Institute of Health (NIH) stated in a press release issued on Saturday. According to Multan and ...
A new coronavirus that has claimed 17 lives in Wuhan, China, may have been transmitted to people from snakes, according to a genetic analysis. The snakes may have caught the virus from bats in the ...
The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS), Regulations and Coordination on Wednesday alerted the Disease Surveillance Division and Central Health Establishment against the possible spread of coronavirus in Pakistan. China where the virus originated from — has ...
The new year has begun with the outbreak of what could be the next deadly health epidemic- coronavirus. An unidentified lung infection was found in 40 people in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Since then, ...
China’s mysterious deadly coronavirus can spread from person to person, as confirmed by top medical authority of China. Chinese and international authorities are scrambling to slow the spread of 2019-nCoV, a SARs-like illness known as the Wuhan ...
The second phase of the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement came into effect as of Sunday, officials said on Monday. Zero duty The new phase will allow the Pakistani manufacturers and traders to export around 313 ...
The adult-themed animated series South Park has been banned in China for airing an episode that mocked China’s censorship laws and how huge US companies are ‘pandering’ everything to them The American TV show is ...
The Port’s Chinese operators have vowed to make the city the biggest contributor to Pakistan’s national economic output, with the estimate of 47,000 jobs being created for locals with new investments worth billions of dollars ...
The Prime Minister will be visiting China some time next week, making this his third visit to the neighboring country this year. During his stay there, he is expected to meet the Chinese leadership and ...
You may have missed it, but the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been in the middle of a nationwide crackdown on a Chinese sex trafficking ring. With everything else that’s going on in the news, ...
A deadly explosion in a chemical plant in #China has left more than 600 injured.
Who are the Uighurs? Uighurs are the oldest Turkic speaking people of Central Asia; they have been mentioned in Chinese records dating back to the 3rd century CE. In the 8th century, the Uighurs established ...
For the first time in 16 years, Apple reduced its revenue expectation due to poor performance in Chinese consumer market.Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc, blamed the decline to the weakening of macroeconomic environment in ...
The Chinese government has provided 50 motorcycles and 200 bulletproof jackets to Gilgit-Baltistan government to ensure the security of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor route in the region. The provision of motorcycles and jackets is part of ...
North Korea on Sunday condemned the Trump administration for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning of a return to “exchanges of fire” and that peace with Pyongyang could be blocked forever. ...
In a positive development, China is most likely to park $2 billion in Pakistan reserves sometime in the ongoing month of December, and, more importantly, the economic diplomacy with the UAE is also going to ...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi reached Kabul to attend the 2nd meeting of China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Trilateral Mechanism, starting today (Dec 15). 1. Afghanistan is hosting a three-way meeting with neighbours China and Pakistan to ...
A video of a Pakistani student being killed in case of honour killing in China, took social media by storm. The video depicted a person being stabbed on the road repeatedly by a [presumably] woman’s ...
Given the economic situation of the country; Prime Minister’s visit to China has seen much limelight. After securing a reasonable aid package from KSA, help from China was considered the only hope to soften the ...
ء 2015 میں جب چینی صدر نے پاکستان کا دورہ کیا تو ایک امید کی فضا پورے ملک میں پھیل گئی۔ بین الاقوامی میڈیا نے اسے خطے کے لیئے مثبت تبدیلی کا ایک کارنامہ قرار ...
While the election fever wears down at home and we prepare ourselves for Imran Khan’s oath-taking ceremony, we cast our eye around the world, bringing you the top international news stories from this past week. ...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) officially launched in 2013. It debuted three years after China’s first shipload of cargo exported via the Gwadar Port to markets in West Asia as well as Africa. Essentially CPEC ...
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