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Alibaba Founder Jack Ma resurfaces, cites ‘difficult’ year to rural teachers
Hong Kong: Alibaba Group Founder Jack Ma, who has gone into hiding after regulatory crackdown in China amid the massive Covid surge in the country, resurfaced in a short video on the…
- Pakistan
Pakistan has a lot to learn from China: Minister
Islamabad: Pakistan should learn from China about economic and technological development, says Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal. To ensure economic development, the country should have a peaceful environment, he said, adding that “we…
- World
WHO asks China to regularly share data on COVID-19 situation
United Nations: The World Health Organization has again urged China to regularly share specific and real-time data on the COVID-19 situation in the country, amid a surge in coronavirus cases after Beijing…
- World
China rail project aims to link Tibet to Kathmandu, may be extended to Indian border
New Delhi: China has sent a team of experts to Nepal to launch a feasibility study for a cross-border railway project dogged for years by technical challenges, political instability in the Himalayan…
- World
Former Uyghur Muslim preacher confirmed dead in prison in China’s Xinjiang
Washington: A Uyghur Muslim preacher, serving a five-year sentence in China’s far-western Xinjiang region for making a religious pilgrimage abroad, died of liver cancer in prison in February, according to a police…
- World
China will reopen borders, abandon Covid quarantine from Jan 8
Hong Kong: China will reopen borders and abandon quarantine after it downgrades its treatment of Covid-19 on January 8, media reports said on Monday. The decision is the country’s last step in…
- Pakistan
China exploits Pak vulnerability to make Islamabad dance to its tune
Islamabad: In recent years, as a result of the strong and long-standing diplomatic and security ties between Pakistan and China, the financial dependence of Pakistan on China has increased alarmingly. And it…
- India
Govt stumps Oppn, dodges debates yet again in Parliament
New Delhi: In the just concluded winter session of Parliament, the opposition despite all its efforts could not persuade the government for discussion on the Chinese transgression issue. The regular adjournment notice…
- World
China’s crematoriums fill up amid rise in COVID-19 cases: Report
Beijing: As COVID-19 cases continue to rise at a meteoric pace in China, crematoriums throughout the country are getting packed and people are forced to wait for hours to get their loved…
- World
Beijing COVID-19 wave ‘peaked’ but China months away from tsunami of infections
Hong Kong: With nearly 250 million now infected without 20 days, infections may have already peaked in Beijing and could do so in Shanghai soon but it will take months before the…
- World
China shifts how it counts Covid deaths as crematoriums fill up
Beijing: Facing growing scepticism that it is downplaying Covid deaths, the Chinese government defended the accuracy of its official tally by revealing it had updated its method of counting fatalities caused by…
- India
‘Let’s always stay prepared’, says Farooq Abdullah on Indo-China border clash
New Delhi: Days after the clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh, National Conference President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq…