Decades strong: Chinese bodybuilders pump iron at old Beijing gym, China News,BEIJING – Each afternoon without fail, a handful of men mostly in their 60s gather at an old bicycle shed in southwest Beijing, clad in sweatshirts and track pants and ready to pump iron. Up to eight men could be doing ben
Chinese woman pays $40,000 for premium parking lot but can only exit car through sunroof, China News,Size does not matter, unless it's a parking spot. And this Chinese woman in Nanning learnt it the hard way when she spent 200,000 yuan (S$40,000) to purchase a premium parking spot only to disco
Hong Kong civil servants given 4 weeks to pledge loyalty to the government, China News,HONG KONG – Hong Kong's 180,000 civil servants were told on Friday (Jan 15) that they had four weeks to sign a document pledging their loyalty to the Chinese-ruled city's mini-Constitution and dedication
China's growing Covid-19 outbreak tests vulnerable border towns, China News,BEIJING – China has reported nearly 250 locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 since the start of the current outbreak 10 days ago, with many infections in remote towns along porous international borders in the country&#
Chinese manufacturing hub fights its first 2021 Covid-19 outbreak, China News,BEIJING – Major Chinese manufacturing province Zhejiang is fighting its first Covid-19 cluster this year, with tens of thousands of citizens in quarantine and virus-hit areas suspending business operations, cutting flights
No new Covid-19 sufferers, 300 asymptomatic, after Wuhan-wide tests, China News,BEIJING – The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the novel coronavirus outbreak began, has found no new cases of people suffering from Covid-19 after testing almost its entire population, and 300 asymptomatic carriers of the v
Hong Kong drinks company Vitasoy faces China netizen calls for boycott, China News,HONG KONG – Beverage maker Vitasoy has become the latest target of Chinese netizen calling for a boycott after an employee circulated a memo online offering condolences to the family of a worker who had stabbed a Hong
For China's landlords, rent-to-riches dreams fade in red flag for fragile economy, China News,BEIJING – Not yet 30, Beijing office worker Li thought she was already on her way up China’s private property ladder with two apartments bought and rented out. Then came the new coronavirus, jobless te
Shanghai tightens lockdown to hit zero-Covid goal by late May, China News,SHANGHAI – Shanghai is tightening its already strict Covid-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of China's biggest city by late this month, people familiar with the matter said. Cu
New Wuhan virus similar in genome to Sars, says HK infectious disease expert, China News,HONG KONG – The new virus behind the pneumonia outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan has a genetic makeup largely similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus, said a leading infectious disease
