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G7 launches $600bn infrastructure plan to counter China

INTERNATIONAL The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations have pledged to raise $600bn in private and public funds over five years to finance infrastructure in developing countries and counter China’s older, multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road project. US President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders relaunched the newly renamed “Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment” on Sunday at their annual gathering being held this year at Schloss Elmau in […]

27 June 2022

International

What will the UN see as it finally visits China’s Xinjiang?

INTERNATIONAL Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is finally in China and travelling to Xinjiang nearly four years after first announcing her intention to visit the country amid concerns of serious human rights abuses in the northwestern region. Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic people who differ in religion, language, and culture from China’s majority Han ethnic group. “Michelle Bachelet’s long-delayed visit […]

24 May 2022

Local

Lockdown restrictions ground SA Post Office airmail service to China

The SA Post Office has temporarily suspended its airmail service to China due to travel restrictions. SA Post Office spokesperson Johan Kruger said parts of China were in lockdown to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and air travel had been restricted. “Surface mail to China remains available,” he said. Meanwhile, an airmail service to Malta and Luxembourg has been introduced. The post office offers an airmail service to 34 countries […]

4 May 2022

International

Anger mounts among locked-down Shanghai residents as city reports more Covid-19 deaths

China's financial hub of Shanghai reported more new Covid-19 related deaths on Friday, as residents vented their anger over a harsh lockdown and strict censorship online. Shanghai's full-city lockdown began at the start of April, though many people have been confined to their homes for much longer, and the stress began to tell on the residents. The city, battling China's biggest coronavirus outbreak so far, reported 12 new Covid-19 deaths […]

24 April 2022

International

Chinese company signed agreement for UAE energy projects

A Chinese technology company has secured three oil and gas subsea cable supply projects with the United Arab Emirates, local UAE media reports. According to the report, ZTT Submarine Cable & System has signed an agreement with UAE's National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) on three oil and gas subsea cable supply projects set to be delivered to the end-user, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). The deal, valued at $514 […]

20 April 2022

International News

China’s Wuhan completes citywide Covid tests on 11 million residents

Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Sunday said they had completed citywide testing of more than 11 million people for Covid-19 after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the coronavirus first emerged there. The tests -- which began on Tuesday -- provide "basically full coverage" of all residents in the city except for children under the age of six and students on their summer […]

9 August 2021

News

Death toll in China’s Henan floods triples to 302, dozens missing

INTERNATIONAL The death toll from last month’s devastating floods in central China has risen to 302 with dozens of people still missing, according to officials, tripling the number of fatalities reported last week. Zhengzhou, the state capital of Henan province, was hardest hit with 292 people dead and 47 missing, the local government said at a news briefing on Monday. Three people remain missing in other areas of the province. […]

3 August 2021

International News

China races to curb Delta-fuelled COVID outbreak, worst in months

Provinces across China have imposed tougher restrictions in an effort to racing to contain the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak in months, with health officials attributing the surge in COVID-19 infections to the highly contagious Delta variant. Authorities reported 328 symptomatic infections in July – almost equal to the total number of local cases from February to June. “The main strain circulating at present is the Delta variant … which poses […]

31 July 2021

International News

Terrifying scenes as subway passengers in China trapped waist-high in floodwaters

Heavy rain pounded the central Chinese province of Henan on Tuesday, bursting the banks of major rivers, flooding the streets of a dozen cities and trapping subway passengers waist-high in floodwaters. Henan, a populous province double the size of Austria, has been hit by storms since the weekend in an unusually active rainy season. No deaths or casualties have been reported, but the daily lives of the province's 94 million […]

21 July 2021

China

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