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March 24, 2022
Academics Worry Over China’s Shrinking Grassland Coverage
Chinese experts have raised concerns over the massive decrease in grassland areas in the latest national survey and called for an intervention to investigate the lost landscape.The momentum gathered after Ma Huiling, a National People’s Congress (NPC) delegate, submitted a proposal at the “two sessions” political meetings earlier this month, urging authorities to investigate the changes in
Published on March 24, 2022 03:00
March 23, 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has foreign investors fleeing Taiwan. Here's why
War in Europe has triggered a massive flight of capital from an Asian island nearly 5,000 miles away. Over the last month, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has heightened concerns about the risk that China could increase its military force against Taiwan, triggering what some analysts have described as an unprecedented exodus by overseas investors.In the three weeks following the invasion, foreign
Published on March 23, 2022 22:00
A Chinese Student’s Escape From War-Torn Ukraine
In just over two weeks since Russia started bombing cities in Ukraine, more than 2 million people have fled to neighboring countries. Scores of foreign nationals studying or working in the European country, along with Ukrainians, have made desperate journeys to flee the invasion. Chinese student Xu Shijie is one of them.The 23-year-old landed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv last August
Published on March 23, 2022 22:00
Japan opposes Russian withdrawal from World War II peace treaty talks over sanctions
Japan reacted angrily on Tuesday after Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Japan and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril Islands because of sanctions imposed by Tokyo over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Russia and Japan have still not formally ended World War II hostilities because of the standoff over islands just off Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, known
Published on March 23, 2022 20:00
Oscars 2022: Writing with Fire puts spotlight on India's underdogs
Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog may be leading this year's Academy Awards with 12 nominations, but India is in thrall over a story of its own underdogs, vying for an Oscar in the documentary feature category. Writing with Fire tells the extraordinary story of the feisty women of Khabar Lahariya - an all-women news service run mostly by editors and reporters from the most marginalised Dalit,
Published on March 23, 2022 18:00
March 22, 2022
China Warns U.S. Against Forming 'Indo-Pacific NATO'
China's NATO blame game in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been brought back to Asia, where Beijing says U.S. alliance-building could result in a great power clash before long. The Chinese leadership's decision to side with Russia came long before Vladimir Putinordered troops across lines of control into Ukrainian-held territory on February 24. Officials in Beijing sympathize with
Published on March 22, 2022 22:59
Wallets, IDs but no survivors found in China Eastern crash
Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball.No survivors have been found among the 123 passengers and nine crew members. Video clips
Published on March 22, 2022 22:57
Hong Kong eases travel rules in apparent shift from zero-Covid policy
Hong Kong will lift a ban on flights from nine countries and reduce hotel quarantine alongside a “roadmap” towards eased restrictions that suggest a departure from the territory’s zero-Covid policy, its leader has announced. From 1 April, fully vaccinated Hong Kong residents who have received a negative PCR test will be allowed to enter on flights from the UK, Australia, Canada, France, India,
Published on March 22, 2022 22:55
‘A blatant lie’: China and Taiwan fight for credit over rescue of sailors lost at sea for 29 days
Tensions between China and Taiwan have found an unlikely battleground – a fight over who rescued nine Papua New Guinean sailors who were lost at sea for nearly a month. The dispute came after the rescue of the Papua New Guinean nationals in Solomon Island waters after 29 days lost at sea, late in February.Credit for the mission was claimed by China in an article published in the Global Times, an
Published on March 22, 2022 22:54
A run through the snow, PCR tests and no guests: a wedding in China’s Covid lockdown
When Amanda Liu Chang and Jia Shihan grow old, they can tell their family members of the time they got married in the middle of a pandemic, Liu having to trudge with her wedding dress through the snow. The story began on 19 March when the couple awoke in their respective Tangshan city apartments in China’s Hebei province, looking forward to formalising their three-year romance with family and
Published on March 22, 2022 22:52
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