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China's population keeps falling — and that's more bad news for the world's 2nd-largest economy
Beijing is already battling deflation, weak consumer demand, and an ongoing property-market crisis …
George Glover
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Big US casino operators like Wynn and MGM stand to lose millions after China's gambling capital of Macau shut down operations to curb COVID-19
China's gambling capital has shut down operations for the first time since February 2020 in an atte…
Samantha Delouya
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China's GDP sinks to 3% in 2022, second lowest in 50 years
The slow pace was blamed mainly on the strictly implemented zero-Covid policy leading to periodi…
PTI
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People in Shanghai scramble to bulk-buy food direct from suppliers amid shortages in its harsh COVID-19 lockdown
In the third week of Shanghai's harsh lockdown, most residents are forbidden from leaving home. Som…
Mia Jankowicz,Cheryl Teh
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Food-delivery drivers in Shanghai forced to become homeless as the city's draconian lockdown means they can't enter their homes
They have to choose between staying at home and getting no income, or working and not returning hom…
Sinéad Baker
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Chinese city orders all indoor pets belonging to COVID-19 patients in one neighborhood to be killed
The Anci district of Langfang city ordered the "complete culling of indoor animals," state media re…
Sinéad Baker
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Xi orders senior officials to make sure China's GDP outpaces US despite COVID-19 lockdowns, WSJ reports
Cities and regions across China were forced into lockdown following a recent surge in COVID-19 case…
Jake Epstein
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How Russia's invasion of Ukraine, vampire obsession, and 'secret bio-weapons' have played into China's narrative about COVID-19's origin
Russia's false claims about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine have fed conspiracy theories in …
Matthew Loh
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A US lawyer who flew to China in January says he ended up in government-mandated quarantines and isolation for 3 straight months before he flew home
Los Angeles-based Xue Liangquan tried to visit his family in China. He ended up spending months in …
Weilun Soon
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General Motors told Shanghai workers to sleep on factory floors to keep up production during the city's new lockdown, report says
The city of Shanghai told companies like General Motors to create worker bubbles so production can …
Bill Bostock
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Tens of millions of Chinese people are back in strict lockdown. Residents say they feel 'trapped.'
Surging numbers of virus cases prompted the new measures. Daily increases of more 1,000 cases are a…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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A woman shared a brutal video that shows 2 health workers beating her dog to death while she was in COVID-19 quarantine
Snowball, a three-year-old Samoyed, was heard whimpering and squealing as two workers dressed in PP…
Cheryl Teh
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Surreal photos and videos show hotel bartenders and waiters in full PPE in China's draconian Olympic bubble
China created a "closed-looped" cocoon for its Beijing Winter Olympics villages to prevent the spre…
Sinéad Baker
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Weibo users are backing Beijing's claim that it received Omicron via Canadian mail, saying an 'ugly nation' sent them 'poison'
Tensions between China and Canada have ratcheted up since 2018 when Canada detained Huawei executiv…
Matthew Loh
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A Chinese woman stuck in a 14-day quarantine watched helplessly via a surveillance camera as her dog demolished her living room and wardrobe
The woman's story generated widespread discussion in China of how pets should be dealt with when th…
Matthew Loh
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China's claim of a Beijing office worker getting infected with Omicron through Canadian mail is 'extraordinary,' Canada's health minister says
The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday said a Beijing resident had been in…
Matthew Loh
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China tells citizens to avoid mail from abroad and open packages with gloves, claiming that Omicron is spreading through foreign post
Experts say the coronavirus is unlikely to spread by mail as it does not last long on surfaces. But…
Sinéad Baker
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The US has suspended 44 China-bound flights by Chinese airlines in a spat over COVID-19 rules
The US Department of Transportation announcement came after China suspended 44 flights operated by …
Grace Dean
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China locks down a city of 1 million people over 3 cases of COVID-19
The lockdown comes just a month before the Beijing Olympics — and as over 1 million new cases were …
Jake Epstein
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A Chinese city apologized after an employee beat a dog to death when the owner was in COVID-19 quarantine
Footage posted to social media, purportedly of the incident, showed two people in protective equipm…