China sends military, doctors to Shanghai to test 26 million residents for COVID
Shanghai, ChinaReuters China has sent the military and thousands of healthcare workers into Shanghai to help carry out COVID-19 tests for all of its 26 million residents as cases continued to rise on Monday, in one of the country’s biggest-ever public health responses. Some residents woke up before dawn for white-suited healthcare workers to swab […]
Hong Kong campus protesters fire arrows as anti-government unrest spreads
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong protesters shot arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university on Sunday at police who fired tear gas and water cannon in some of the worst violence in the Chinese-ruled city since anti-government unrest erupted five months ago. Several protesters took up positions on the rooftops of Hong Kong Polytechnic […]
Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong warn protesters as emergency rules fail to quell unrest
Hong KongReuters Chinese soldiers issued a warning to Hong Kong protesters on Sunday who shone lasers at their barracks in the city, in the first direct interaction with mainland military forces in four months of anti-government demonstrations. The People’s Liberation Army garrison in Kowloon district warned a crowd of a few hundred protesters they could […]