Tehran: Iran received 250,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine on Sunday that have been donated by the government of China. “This act and those similar to it by the government and nation of China are admirable and will of course remain in the historical memory of the Iranian nation,” Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman of the Food […]
China’s President Xi Jinping has declared complete victory in his government’s effort to eradicate rural poverty, lifting the income of nearly 100 million people over the past eight years. The Chinese leader made the announcement at a ceremony in Beijing on Thursday to mark what has been described as a signature initiative of his tenure. […]
BEIJING: A Chinese court has ordered a man to pay his former wife 50,000 yuan ($7,700); as compensation for housework she did during their five-year marriage; state media reported Wednesday. Under a landmark civil code that seeks to better protect the rights of individuals; spouses can seek compensation from their partners in a divorce if […]
The United Kingdom and Canada have imposed sanctions on Myanmar’s ruling generals for toppling the civilian-led government, while Japan has said it agrees with the United States, India, and Australia that democracy must be restored there quickly. Western countries have condemned the February 1 overthrow and detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi; which […]
China has arrested the leader of the COVID-19 vaccine scam. The man identified as Kong. He had researched the packaging designs of real vaccines before making more than 58,000 of his own concoctions. Kong is among 70 people who have been arrested for similar crimes. Even though most of the cases surfaced late last year, […]
Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 coronavirus vaccines, a donation by the Chinese government. Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga were at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in the capital; Harare, in the early hours of Monday for the arrival of the doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. “It has not been lost […]
An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth, China’s space agency said, in the country’s first independent mission to the red planet. The robotic probe carried out a 15-minute burn of its thrusters at 7:52pm Beijing time (5:22pm IST); the China National Space Administration said in […]
China’s market regulator has released new anti-monopoly guidelines aimed at internet platforms; tightening existing restrictions faced by the country’s technology giants. The new rules, published on Sunday, formalize an earlier anti-monopoly draft law released in November and clarify a series of monopolistic practices that regulators plan to crack down on. The guidelines are expected to […]
WUHAN: World Health Organisation (WHO) inspectors; on Wednesday visited a Virus laboratory in China’s Wuhan city; at the heart of a controversial theory that it could have been the source of the coronavirus. The inspection of the Wuhan Institute of Virology; which researches the world’s most dangerous diseases; will be one of the most-watched stops […]
A World Health Organization (WHO) team tracing the origins of COVID-19 on Sunday visited a food market in Wuhan, where the virus was initially detected. The team arrived at Huanan amid heavy security with additional barricades set up outside a high blue fence surrounding the market; and left in a convoy after about one hour. […]
