China faces 'new Covid situation': Xi Jinping

President Xi Jinping on Monday said China faced a "new COVID situation," as he urged healthcare officials to take targeted measures to deal with the sudden surge in infections, the first time that......

China reported nearly 250mn Covid cases in just 20 days: Report

As hospitals and morgues in China are overwhelmed by millions of Covid cases, official data projected that millions have been infected since December 1 while the government has permitted the......

After 2 years, Beijing relaxes COVID-19 test norms following protests

For the first time in about two years, China's capital city Beijing relaxed its norms for coronavirus test requirements on Tuesday after unprecedented public protests against President Xi Jinping's......

What do kids miss most during lockdown? They reveal through art

Missing their grandparents, not being able to go out and meet their friends.... These are just some of the things that kids, who have been confined to their homes due to the coronavirus lockdown,......

What China learned from Lee Kuan Yew... and India didn't

Lee deserved to lead a bigger country than Singapore, the city of 5 million he ruled for three decades, says Rahul Jacob. One of the asymmetries of history is the lack of correspondence between the......

Unfair deals? Lanka halts $1.4-billion Chinese port project

Sri Lanka's suspension of a project to build a glittering skyline on land reclaimed from the Indian Ocean has prompted China to defend its investment, in a test of Beijing's ambitions to fund loans......

IKEA goes local for India, China

Without a willingness to lug cheap flat-pack wardrobes home and wrestle with self-assembly, there would be no IKEA, but in Asia, where the locals have other ideas, the Swedish furniture giant......

China's doom story: The signs of a downfall

Among its various records, China now has the world's largest vacant malls, empty cities, and stalled amusement parks. Wonderland was slated to be Asia's biggest theme park. Spread across a......

World Athletics C'ships: Khushbir finishes 42nd in women's 20km race walk

K T Irfan and Khushbir Kaur finished at 23rd and 42nd positions respectively in the men's and women's 20km race walk events on the final day of competitions as India ended their miserable World......