The streets in Chengdu were largely deserted on Saturday, after the city ordered its 21 million residents to stay at home this week following a spike in COVID-19 cases.
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India on Thursday took note of a report by the UN human rights office on “serious maltreatment” of minorities in China’s Xinjiang region.
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India needs a land-based conventional ballistic missile to deter any aircraft carrier-based threat from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea while packing a punch against land forces across the LAC.
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China has responded furiously to a United Nations report on alleged human rights abuses in its northwestern Xinjiang region targeting Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim ethnic minorities.
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The number of marriages in China has hit a 36-year low with registrations of married couples dropped below eight million in 2021, the lowest since 1986.
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Chinese markets fell on Wednesday as global investors continue to deal with the aftermath of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish speech at Jackson Hole last week, and the alarming spread of Covid in China.
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Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday said India is showing intent as a problem solver despite not being a traditional contributor to global emissions.
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China arrests hundreds in rural banking scandal Police in China have arrested 234 suspects allegedly involved in a rural banking scandal, a month after hundreds of depositors protested over their lost savings in one of the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the pandemic began. Since April, four rural banks in China’s central Henan province have frozen deposits worth millions of dollars, heaping misery on hundreds of thousands of customers in an economy already battered by draconian Covid lockdowns. Police in Xuchang city, Henan said in a statement Monday…
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In offshore trading outside of mainland China, the yuan, declined by around 0.5% against the US dollar while onshore trade saw a big decline
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CCP cadres write open letter to target Xi Jinping’s personality cult; suggest reforms Communist Party of China’s leading cadres has shot a letter asking for reforms and greater responsibility in the existing workings of the party. Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) leading cadres has shot a letter asking for reforms and greater responsibility in the existing workings of the party, while it also tries to challenge the personality cult that China’s president Xi Jinping has been trying to build around himself. Notably, the three members of CPC although not holding senior…
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