GENEVA, June 16 (Reuters): The origins of a new cluster of coronavirus infections in Beijing are uncertain, World Health Organization officials said on Monday, but the claim that it might have been caused
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BEIJING, June 15 (Reuters): Several districts of the Chinese capital put up security checkpoints, closed schools and ordered people to be tested for the coronavirus on Monday after an unexpected spike
Beijing, June 13 (IANS): Beijing confirmed six new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases after the Chinese capital recorded its first domestic infected earlier in the week in almost two months, authorities sa
BEIJING, June 12 (Reuters): Beijing shut six major wholesale food markets on Friday and delayed plans for some students to return to school after China's capital reported new coronavirus infections for
HONG KONG, June 12 (Reuters): The Hong Kong government and China's foreign ministry branch in the city hit back on Friday at a report by Britain criticising Beijing's plans for national security le
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters): The Trump administration is looking at various responses to China's national security law on Hong Kong through the president's working group on capital markets, U.S.
SYDNEY, June 11 (Reuters): Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday he would not be intimidated by "coercion" after China restricted some Australian exports and urged Chinese tourists and s
HONG KONG, June 10 (Reuters): Hong Kong police arrested 53 people during protests on Tuesday evening that saw hundreds of activists take to the streets, at times blocking roads in the heart of the global f
LONDON, June 9 (Reuters): The coronavirus might have been spreading in China as early as August last year, according to Harvard Medical School research based on satellite images of hospital travel patterns
HONG KONG, June 9 (Reuters): Hundreds of protesters gathered in central Hong Kong on Tuesday to mark a year of sustained pro-democracy rallies as fears over looming national security legislation have reign
HONG KONG, June 9 (Reuters): Medical sector worker Tana has attended peaceful lunchtime rallies in Hong Kong regularly for months along with thousands of others protesting Beijing's influence and calli
BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters): China will strengthen international cooperation in future COVID-19 clinical vaccine trials, building on earlier collaboration in vaccine development, the science and technology m
BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters): China will strengthen international cooperation in future COVID-19 clinical vaccine trials, building on earlier collaboration in vaccine development, the science and technology m
TAIPEI, June 7 (Reuters): Taiwan's main opposition party moved to distance itself from China after one of its most senior officials lost a highly charged recall election, as attitudes harden towards Be
TOKYO, June 7 (Reuters): Japan has decided not join the United States, Britain and others in issuing a statement scolding China for imposing a new security law, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, citing
HONG KONG/BEIJING, June 4 (Reuters): People in Hong Kong planned to light candles across the city on Thursday to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square, circ
Hong Kong, June 4 (Reuters): Hong Kong's Legislative Council passed a bill on Thursday that would criminalise disrespect of China's national anthem, a move critics see as the latest sign of Beijing
BEIJING, June 3 (Reuters): China said 300 symptomless carriers of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, had not been found to be infectious, in a bid to reassure people as countrie
LONDON/HONG KONG, June 3 (Reuters): Britain will not walk away from the people of Hong Kong if China imposes a national security law that would conflict with its international obligations under a 1984 acco
HONG KONG, June 3 (Reuters): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday the central government will not back down on plans for national security legislation for the financial hub, even as Britain steppe
