Clashes in Shanghai as COVID protests flare across China
Shanghai/Beijing, ChinaReuters Hundreds of demonstrators and police clashed in Shanghai on Sunday night as protests over China’s stringent COVID restrictions flared for a third day and spread to several cities in the wake of a deadly fire in the country’s far west. The wave of civil disobedience is unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi […]
Postcards: Amid COVID shutdowns, Chinese women flock to skateboarding
MARTIN QUIN POLLARD, of Reuters, reports from Beijing on a new trend…
Hong Kong Palace Museum aims to engage city’s youth with Chinese culture
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong’s new Palace Museum, a gift from Beijing to marks 25th anniversary of the territory’s return to Chinese rule, aims to engage the city’s younger generation with Chinese culture, its director said on Wednesday. Spanning more than 30,000 square metres, the museum showcases more than 900 artefacts on loan from Beijing’s Palace […]
Hemmed in by COVID curbs, Beijingers seek respite in urban outdoors
Beijing, ChinaReuters On a hot, sunny day, children and adults splashed in the cool run-off of the Yongding River in a park on the western outskirts of Beijing, a city under near-lockdown in China’s head-on battle with COVID-19. While gatherings are discouraged and many parks in the sprawling city of 22 million are shut, Beijingers […]
COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won’t be denied their Peking duck
Beijing, ChinaReuters As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck. The ban on […]
As Beijing outbreak persists, China hits back at “zero COVID” doubters
Beijng/Shanghai, China Reuters Beijing residents fretted on Friday over tightening COVID curbs in its biggest district and dozens of new cases reported daily as China’s leaders reiterated their resolve to battle the virus and threatened action against critics of their strict measures. Incurring a heavy economic cost and facing rare public criticism on its tightly-policed […]
“Entry only. No exit”: Beijing sees more COVID closures as anger grows in Shanghai
Beijing/Shanghai, ChinaReuters China’s capital Beijing closed more businesses and residential compounds on Friday, with authorities ramping up contact tracing to contain a COVID-19 outbreak, while resentment at the month-long lockdown in Shanghai grew. In the finance hub, fenced-in people have been protesting against the lockdown and difficulties in obtaining provisions by banging on pots and […]
Beijing shoppers throng stores as district starts mass testing
Beijing, ChinaReuters Beijing residents snapped up food and other supplies as the city’s biggest district began mass COVID-19 testing of all residents on Monday, prompting fears of a Shanghai-style lockdown after dozens of cases in the capital in recent days. Authorities in Chaoyang, home to 3.45 million people, late on Sunday ordered residents and those […]
China records more local COVID cases this year than in whole of 2021
Beijing, ChinaReuters China has reported more local symptomatic COVID-19 cases so far this year than it recorded in all of 2021, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant triggers outbreaks from Shanghai to Shenzhen. Mainland China reported 1,337 new domestically transmitted COVID cases with confirmed symptoms on 13th March, the National Health Commission said on Monday. […]
Postcards: Amid pandemic and protest, Olympics return to a changed China
TONY MUNROE, of Reuters, reports from Beijing where the Winter Olympics open this week…