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Zhang Zhan, jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan, has made no contact with outside worldConcerns are growing about the wellbeing of one of China’s most prominent citizen journalists who has failed to make contact with the outside world after she was …
続きを読むCitizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authoritiesA Chinese citizen journalist who has been in prison for four years after reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 epide…
続きを読むZhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreakThe first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest…
続きを読むA year after travel restrictions were lifted, authorities are straining to cope with millions of visitors, especially those who don’t respect the environment and local customsAt the height of the Covid pandemic, the restaurateurs and shopkeepers of Tsu…
続きを読むAuthorities appeal for calm, saying spike is due to end of Covid-19 lockdown restrictionsA surge in respiratory illnesses in China, particularly among children, has reportedly swamped paediatric units in city hospitals, while authorities have urged cal…
続きを読むData has been supplied to World Health Organization and China says flu and other known pathogens are culpritsA surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other know…
続きを読むEpidemiologists say wave in north, particularly among children, may be partly caused by ‘immunity debt’Chinese health authorities have provided the requested data on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children, a…
続きを読むPeople dress as Covid workers, surveillance cameras and Winnie-the-Pooh, a reference to Xi JinpingHalloween revellers in Shanghai have poked fun at the Chinese authorities with their costumes, dressing up as Covid prevention workers, surveillance camer…
続きを読むAir Koryo flight from Pyongyang cancelled two hours after its scheduled arrival in BeijingNorth Korea’s national airline’s first commercial flight since it largely closed itself off from the world in early 2020 in response to the Covid pandemic has bee…
続きを読むTourism, academia and literature all exhibit signs that trend of closer ties has gone into reverseCultural ties between the US and China are at a low point after several years of decline, according to Guardian analysis of official figures.The Covid-19 …
続きを読むChina has been accused of masking the true impact of the pandemic and underreporting the number of fatalities China has dropped the number of cremations held last winter from a quarterly report, withholding a key indicator of the pandemic death toll du…
続きを読むVirologist George Gao also states for first time that China has investigated claim virus came from a laboratoryThe former director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) has said the lab leak theory for the origins of Covid-19 shoul…
続きを読むAction by workers has trebled this year as the country emerges from its draconian coronavirus measuresProtests in China are often small- scale. On 17 May, a handful of workers at an air-purifier factory in Xiamen, a coastal city in Fujian province, sou…
続きを読む‘Smile education’ coach Keiko Kawano says more and more people have developed a ‘complex’ about smilingAfter three years of concealing their mouths behind masks, some Japanese people are turning to specialist smile tutors to relearn the art of breaking…
続きを読むFang Bin was targeted by authorities for reporting on the outbreak of Covid-19 in WuhanA Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared three years ago while reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown – and was later revealed to have been detained by auth…
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