月: 2020年12月
Wang Fan is a young craft beer brewer in Wuhan. When his city became the first in the world to enter lockdown, he volunteered to help support other residents, and documented the sudden and strict pandemic rules over that harsh winter. One year later, W…
Court grants prosecutors’ request to appeal against bail order on media mogulThe Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been returned to jail after the city’s highest court ruled in favour of prosecutors’ request for leave to ap…
Navy seizes UUV, likely a Chinese Sea Wing, that experts say could be used to plot routes for military subsAn Indonesian fisher has found what experts say is likely to be a Chinese submarine drone in waters on a strategic maritime route from the South …
Minister from Hindu nationalist BJP says schools should be producing Muslim professional workers, rather than future imamsAn Indian state ruled by Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has passed a law abolishing all Islamic schools, saying they prov…
Rollout to begin ‘soon’ but about a million have already received injection under emergency approvalsSee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s health authorities have approved a Covid vaccine from state-owned Sinopharm for general use on the population, …
Stripped of tourism money, keepers in India and Thailand are struggling to keep their elephants alive Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt has been a tough year for many, and for the elephants at Elefanjoy sanctuary in Jaipur,…
Local travel making up for lack of overseas visitors but also causing problems See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders have been called on to show greater respect for their environment amid a boom in domestic tourism that has been accompanied by…
Country insists all people who die of virus are cremated even if it violates religious beliefsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Muslim Council of Britain is launching a legal challenge to the Sri Lankan government’s policy…
Crowds reportedly led by Islamic clerics attempt to destroy ancient shrine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regionA violent religious mob has set fire to a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and attempted to tear it to the ground.Crowds of thous…
Official tests for antibody prevalence suggest an infection rate 10 times higher than official number See all our coronavirus coverageA Chinese study of coronavirus antibodies has found almost half a million people may have had Covid-19 in Wuhan, a num…
Group’s trial on the mainland lasted just one day and was held with few public witnessesTen people who tried to flee Hong Kong for Taiwan have been sentenced in a Chinese court to up to three years in jail, while two minors have been returned to to Hon…
Zhang Zhan, who reported from city at start of pandemic, was sentenced to four years in jailThe European Union and United States have demanded that China release a citizen journalist jailed for her reports on the early outbreak of the coronavirus pande…
French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addicted to online romanceIn 2013, French documentary-maker Thomas Balmès made a film called Happiness, about an eight-year-old monk called Peyangki…
Deal set to anger incoming Biden administration in US, which demanded to be consulted before deal went aheadChina and the EU appear to have resolved their differences over protecting labour rights in China and are set to sign a long-delayed investment …