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The Chinese Communist party is promoting a campaign to study its history before the 100th anniversary in July. ‘Red’ tourism to historically significant hotspots like Yan’an and Xibaipo has increased accordingly Continue reading…
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One of China’s tallest skyscrapers was evacuated on Tuesday after it began to shake, sending panicked shoppers running to safety. The nearly 300-metre (980ft) SEG Plaza in Shenzhen, southern China, inexplicably began to shake at about 1pm, prompting an…
Grieving families gathered on Sunday after an attack on a girls’ school in the Afghan capital of Kabul in which about 50 people were killed and at least twice as many injured, mainly female pupils aged between 11 and 15. The Afghan president, Ashraf Gh…
The remnants of China’s largest rocket plummeted back to Earth, plunging into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, according to Chinese state media and people in Oman and Jordan who captured footage of its light in the sky.Most of the rocket debris burn…
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has told a Senate hearing on Covid-19 there are 173 unaccompanied children in India who are trying to return to Australia. More than 9,500 Australians are stranded in the country, 95…
The Japanese coastal town of Noto is facing criticism after a giant squid statue was installed using emergency funding
intended for coronavirus measures. Crafting the pink-and-white
creature with flared tentacles
came at a cost of ¥25m (£164,000), with…
The city state was recently crowned the best place to be in the pandemic, and reported an average of seven daily cases last week. But its latest public health video – an infectious pop song starring comedian Gurmit Singh as his much-loved character Phu…
China has sent into space the core module of its space station at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, kicking off a series of key launch missions with one of the goals to create a nation…
China has successfully
launched the first module
of its new space station, part of an ambitious
plan for Beijing to have a permanent
human presence in space. The Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, unmanned core module, launched from
Wenchang in China’s Haina…
Crematoriums in Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of land after being inundated by bodies from the surging Covid-19 crisis sweeping India. Crematoriums across the city have been building new platforms after ambula…
Mass cremations have been taking place in the Indian capital, Delhi, in makeshift facilities set up to cope with the huge rise in coronavirus deaths. India recorded another 352,991 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the fifth day of record highs, and 2,8…
India Covid crisis: families’ plea for help amid oxygen shortages and mass cremations – video report
India’s underfunded health system is on the brink of collapse as the world’s worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation. This week the number of recorded cases passed 300,000 a day, along with more than 2,000 deaths – which is close to twice the dail…
22 April 1949: The Chinese communist revolutionary called for the ‘anti-democratic Kuomintang forces on Chinese territory’ to be wiped outNanking, April 21The Communist Peking radio said to-night that Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader, had issued orde…
At least 22 patients have died in a western Indian hospital after their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leak in a supply tank. The leak was plugged by the fire service within 15 minutes, but there was supply disruption in the Zakir Hussain Hospital …