BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) – The European Union exhorted China to repeal its ban on the BBC World News television, the Associated Press said in a report on Saturday. China barred Britain’s BBC World News from its television networks on Friday and Hong Kong’s public broadcaster said it
SHANGHAI (CHINA) – One of the investigators in the WHO team probing the origins of the pandemic in China said that Beijing refused to provide raw data on early coronavirus cases. This has complicated efforts to understand the outbreak of the virus. The team had requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19 […]
BEIJING (CHINA) – Mainland China reported 11 new COVID-19 cases on Feb. 6, which was down from 12 cases a day earlier and the lowest daily increase since December 16, according to the national health authority on Sunday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that only one of the new cases has spread […]
BEIJING (CHINA) – The BBC received flak from Chinese official and social media on Friday in an escalating diplomatic dispute, a day after Britain’s media regulator cancelled the TV licence of Chinese state media outlet CGTN. On Thursday, Britain’s Ofcom revoked the license of CGTN, the English-language sister channel of state broadcaster CCTV, after
BEIJING (CHINA) – China’s foreign ministry on Thursday said it had lodged “stern representations” to the British Broadcasting Corp over what it said was “fake news” coverage of COVID-19, and urged the broadcaster to publicly apologise. In a statement, a ministry spokesperson said that the BBC had recently “linked the pandemic to
WUHAN (CHINA) – A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organization wrapped up a visit on Wednesday to a major virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan, in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts spent about 3-1/2 hours at the heavily-guarded Wuhan […]
BEIJING (CHINA) – China plans to implement strict COVID testing requirements during the Lunar New Year holiday season, when tens of millions of people are likely to travel. Shanghai reported its first locally transmitted cases in two months on Thursday. Authorities are asking people to stay home during the February holiday season in their effort. […]
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (CHINA) – China is grappling from the worst outbreak of COVID-19 since March 2020. One province from the country posted a record daily rise in cases, and an independent panel, which reviewed the global pandemic said that China could have taken stern action to curb the initial outbreak. State-backed tabloid the Global Times on […]
GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) – The United States urged China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview “care givers, former patients and lab workers” in the central city of Wuhan, and check its availability to medical data and samples. The United States, which has blamed that China was hiding […]
BEIJING (CHINA) – The Chinese foreign minister said on Monday that it has decided to slap sanctions on US officials who have engaged in “nasty” behaviour over Taiwan, which is claimed by Beijing as its sovereign territory. Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of the foreign ministry, made this comment while replying to a question about US Secretary […]