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BEIJING: The city of Beijing has rolled out a range of measures to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic by imposing restrictions on travellers from regions with relatively high virus transmission rates. According to Chinese state…

BEIJING: Authorities in Wuhan on Tuesday said they would test its entire population for Covid-19 after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year. The city of 11 million…

KABUL: Taliban officials have told China they will not allow Afghanistan to be used as a base by groups plotting against another country, an insurgent spokesman said Wednesday. A top-level Taliban delegation is in China for talks with…

BEIJING: A senior Chinese health official said Thursday he was shocked by the World Health Organisation's plan for the second phase of a Covid-19 origins study. National Health Commission Vice Minister Zeng Yixin dismissed the lab leak…

BEIJING: China will not follow the suggested plan from the World Health Organization on the second phase of Covid-19 origins study as it contains language that does not respect science, vice head of the National Health Commission (NHC)…

BEIJING: A Beijing-based veterinarian who was confirmed as China's first human infection case with Monkey B virus (BV) has died, amid rising concerns, the official media reported. The 53-year-old male vet, who worked for an institution…

BEIJING: The death toll in the collapse of a hotel in eastern China was raised to 17 Wednesday as authorities ended the search and rescue mission. The city of Suzhou said on its social media feed that 23 people had been pulled alive from…

BEIJING: China has prohibited the construction of the tallest skyscrapers amid mounting concerns over the safety and quality of such projects. Beijing has officially set a structure-height limit of 500 meters for all its future…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's national security law has decimated freedoms and created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International said on Wednesday, a year after Beijing imposed the legislation on the city. The sweeping national security…

SYDNEY: China's government and its supporters have monitored, harassed and intimidated pro-democracy Chinese students living in Australia, and Australian universities have failed to protect the students' academic freedoms, Human Rights…