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Thousands flee Hong Kong for UK, fearing China crackdown

3:25 pm February 1, 2021

Hong Kong: Thousands of Hong Kongers have already made the sometimes painful decision to leave behind their hometown and move to Britain since Beijing imposed a strict national security law on the Chinese territory last summer. Their numbers are expected to swell to the hundreds of thousands. Some are leaving because they fear punishment for supporting the pro-democracy protests that swept the former British colony […]

China says 16 Chinese COVID-19 vaccines undergoing clinical trials

8:31 pm January 31, 2021

Beijing: As the demand for the COVID-19 vaccine intensified around the world, China said that it has increased the number of vaccines undergoing clinical trials to 16 from 11 to step up supplies at home and abroad. China is conducting clinical trials of 16 COVID-19 vaccines, seven of which have entered phase-III trials and one has conditionally […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

A 17-year-old daredevil could be China’s next Olympic star

10:32 pm January 30, 2021

Aspen: When sports fans hear the name Eileen Gu over the next 12 months — and they will hear it a lot — it will not be by accident. Hard work, laser-focused planning, an unworldly wealth of talent and a splendid bit of timing could turn this 17-year-old freeskier, who hails from San Francisco but whose mother is from China, […]

China envoy urges EU to develop its ‘strategic autonomy’

11:59 pm January 27, 2021

Brussels: China‘s envoy to the European Union on Wednesday urged the 27-nation bloc to deepen its ties with his country even further and said that he hoped the EU’s desire for ”strategic autonomy” will guide its foreign policy in the future. The EU is China’s biggest trading partner, but they are also economic competitors, and as Beijing has become […]

9 workers found dead in China mine explosion

4:41 pm January 25, 2021

Beijing : Chinese officials say rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers in a mine explosion, raising the death toll to 10. Eleven others were rescued earlier after being trapped for two weeks, and one person is still missing at the gold mine in Shandong province.