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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 Apr 2020 9:26 AM

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 China's Hubei province on Monday, March 30, 2020. Shopkeepers in the city at the center of China's 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 locked down: Researchers

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

01 Apr 2020 1:57 PM

Buses carrying members of a medical assistance team from Shenyang leave Shenyang Taoxian Airport upon their return home after helping with the COVID-19 coronavirus recovery effort in Wuhan, in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province on March 20, 2020. China on March 19 marked a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for the first time since the outbreak emerged, but a spike in imported cases threatened its progress. (AFP)

China begins Information Warfare

What China does not seem to understand is that even if she wins a few IW battles, this will not help her to become a respected state

23 Mar 2020 6:06 PM

In this handout picture taken on March 16, 2020, and released by Wuhan Three Towns Football Club shows the club's players taking part in a training session in Haikou in China's southern Hainan province. AFP Photo

'Blessing amid misfortune': the Chinese football club at coronavirus ground zero

China on Friday reported no new local cases for a second straight day, suggesting that the stringent containment measures have worked

20 Mar 2020 3:02 PM

This aerial photo taken on March 16, 2020 shows a view of an empty road at night in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. China reported on March 17 just one new domestic coronavirus infection but found 20 more cases imported from abroad. (AFP)

Meanwhile, a silver lining: China reports just 1 new domestic virus case

But there were 20 cases of coronavirus infection detected in people coming from abroad

17 Mar 2020 10:08 AM

Government sources said, “China is yet to grant clearance for the flight with relief supplies which will fetch the remaining Indians.

China delaying Wuhan airlift: India

New Delhi had earlier operated two evacuation flights to Wuhan.

23 Feb 2020 2:07 AM

In this handout photo provided by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Indian nationals who were airlifted from coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan play indoor games at a quarantine facility at Chhawla area in New Delhi on February 15, 2020. (PTI)

China delays clearance for India's rescue flight to Wuhan

India wants to operate a special flight to carry relief supplies there and bring more Indians back

22 Feb 2020 10:54 AM

Family members of Pakistani students studying in Wuhan, China, hold a demonstration calling for the evacuation of their relatives after the Chinese city was badly hit by the coronavirus, in Karachi, Pakistan AP photo

Families of Pakistani students stuck in China demand their return

Family members of those stranded in Wuhan demand the evacuation of Pakistani students from the Chinese city

17 Feb 2020 10:01 AM

A security guard checks the temperature of people entering Yu Park in Shanghai. AFP photo

Coronavirus death toll hits 563, number of cases surpass 28,000

Among the deceased, 70 were from Hubei Province and its provincial Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak

06 Feb 2020 11:29 AM

Chinese military medical staff members stand arrive at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in China’s Hubei Province on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

Lockdown in major China city; toll 304

First coronavirus overseas death reported from Philippines.

03 Feb 2020 3:53 AM

An official in a protective suit checks on an elderly man wearing a facemask who collapsed and died on a street near a hospital in Wuhan. AFP photo

Man found dead on empty street in China's Wuhan

The man, who appeared to be in his 60's was found on a pavement

31 Jan 2020 2:25 PM

A doctor is seen wearing a facemask while looking at a lung CT image from a patient at a hospital in Wuhan. AFP Photo

US issues 'Do Not Travel' advisory to China over Coronavirus

The State Department's advisory also suggested Americans in China to departing using commercial means

31 Jan 2020 12:25 PM

Air India has six flights a week on the Delhi-Shanghai route and IndiGo has three daily flights to China.

Indians urged to skip China trips, flights cancelled

The MEA said permission was sought from China, adding that the Indian embassy in Beijing was working on the logistics with the Chinese authorities.

30 Jan 2020 1:40 AM

Even in the best of times Sino-Indian relations are fraught with instant danger — it is like a weather vane that can turn any time, at the slightest pretext or provocation, owing to profound trust deficit, which can’t be wished away.

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.

08 May 2018 12:50 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: PTI)

Modi & Xi could make history at Wuhan

The significance of this meeting is not that the two leaders are meeting under the shadow of Doklam.

27 Apr 2018 12:30 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Chinese woman undergoes plastic surgery to evade $3.7 million debt

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

30 Jul 2017 12:01 PM

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