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China to resume issuing passports, visas as virus curbs ease

China to resume issuing passports, visas as virus curbs ease

China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years, setting up a potential flood of Chinese going abroad for next month's Lunar New Year holiday.The announcement Tuesday adds to abrupt changes that are rolling back some of the world's strictest anti-virus controls as Presid...

2022-12-28 20:08

Chinese make travel plans as Beijing dismantles zero-COVID rules

Chinese make travel plans as Beijing dismantles zero-COVID rules

Chinese people, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by stringent COVID-19 curbs, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening next month, even as rising infections strained the health system and roiled the economy.

2022-12-28 12:02

Vietnam moves into pole position with win over Malaysia

Vietnam moves into pole position with win over Malaysia

Vietnam brushed aside Nguyen Van Toan's first-half sending-off to hand Malaysia a 3-0 defeat in Hanoi and move top of the Group B standings at the Asean Championship on Tuesday.

2022-12-28 10:55

China's Zhejiang battling around 1 million daily COVID cases

China's Zhejiang battling around 1 million daily COVID cases

The eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang is battling around 1 million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday.

2022-12-25 19:50

China says no new COVID deaths after changing criteria

China says no new COVID deaths after changing criteria

China said Wednesday that not a single person had died of COVID-19 the previous day, after changing the criteria for recording virus deaths to mean most are no longer counted.

2022-12-21 19:18

A week into easing, uncertainty over China virus direction

A week into easing, uncertainty over China virus direction

A week after China eased some of the world's strictest COVID-19 containment measures, uncertainty remains over the direction of the pandemic in the world's most populous nation.

2022-12-15 20:18

Late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's ashes are scattered at mouth of Yangtze River

Late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's ashes are scattered at mouth of Yangtze River

The ashes of late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin were scattered into the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

2022-12-11 21:32

Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia for Chinese leader Xi's visit

Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia for Chinese leader Xi's visit

Gulf Arab leaders and others in the Mideast met on Friday in Saudi Arabia as part of a state visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, seeking to firm up their relations with Beijing as decades of U.S. attention on the region wanes.

2022-12-09 22:23

[ANALYSIS] China struggles with COVID infections after controls ease

ANALYSISChina struggles with COVID infections after controls ease

A rash of COVID-19 cases in schools and businesses were reported Friday in areas across China after the ruling Communist Party loosened anti-virus rules as it tries to reverse a deepening economic slump.

2022-12-09 21:59

Japan to develop new fighter jet jointly with UK, Italy

Japan to develop new fighter jet jointly with UK, Italy

Japan announced Friday that it will develop its next-generation fighter jet jointly with the U.K. and Italy as it looks to expand defense cooperation beyond its traditional ally, the United States.

2022-12-09 21:33

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