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More than a thousand struggling businesses say red tape is keeping them in limbo after months of waiting for critical anti-pandemic financial aid from the Hong Kong government.Estimates from industry groups and government departments show that 1,464 of the hardest-hit firms awaiting help include those forced to suspend operations for more than 100 days […]

SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) --A newly built nucleic acid test laboratory has completed tests of around 2.3 million samples in two rounds of citywide nucleic acid testing in north C

Advocates and lawyers have hailed the decision by Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to provide legal support in the court battle of Baby Jane Allas – a domestic worker from the Philippines who lost her job in 2019 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.The city’s equality watchdog has issued legal proceedings under the Disability […]

ISLAMABAD - Ten climbers from Nepal made history Saturday when they became the first in winter to reach the summit of Pakistan's K2, the world's second-highest mountain at 8,611 meters (28,251 feet

HOUSTON, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A grand Spring Festival gala is going to be staged online to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, which fall on Feb. 12 this year, the organizer said Saturday

On December 4, 2020, Russia launched large-scale vaccination against the novel coronavirus with its Sputnik V vaccine. Starting from January 18, by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a mass

Beijing [China], January 17 (ANI): Nearly 100 million people in China have been supplied with drinking water containing unsafe levels of toxic chemicals. A team from Tsinghua University has observed t

ALGIERS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Algeria on Saturday reported 230 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total infections in the North Africa country to 103,611. The death toll fr

The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent a team of scientists to Chinas Wuhan, the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, to probe the origins of the Coronavirus, WHO confirmed. The WHO stated in a t

by Matthew Rusling WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Rhonda Clark, 40, working in information technology in the area around Washington D.C., had problems saving money in her first five years a

Viewpoint by Azu IshiekweneUS President Donald Trump may have lost re-election but he would be escorted out of the White House on January 19 night with a special prize: Africa's worst friend

By Kester Kenn KlomegahIn this interview, Pradeep Mehta who is the founder Secretary General of the Jaipur-based Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS International), talks about the establ

Beijing [China], January 16 (ANI): Nearly 100 million people have been supplied with drinking water containing unsafe levels of toxic chemicals. A team from Tsinghua University has observed the levels

Video shows Wuhan lab scientists admit to being bitten by bats Taiwan News

ANKARA, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- More than 675,000 health workers in Turkey have received COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac during the first three days of the country's vaccination program,

Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): A new research has revealed that COVID-19 transmission can be substantially reduced by reducing infected aerosol and droplet emission in conjunction with hygiene, di

A civil servants’ union formed during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong has become the first to disband since it became a requirement for public sector workers to pledge allegiance to the city and its mini-constitution. Union for New Civil Servants chairman Michael Ngan Mo-chau announced the move in a Facebook post late on Saturday night and […]

Doha [Qatar], January 16 (ANI/Xinhua): The Qatari Health Ministry on Saturday said there are 204 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number in the Gulf state to 147,089, official Qatar News Agency (

HANGZHOU, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Zhejiang Province, an e-commerce heartland and foreign trade hub in east China, reported a robust increase in both online retail sales and cross-border e-commerce trad

ZHENGZHOU, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Henan Province saw its foreign trade grow 16.4 percent year on year to a yearly record high of nearly 665.5 billion yuan (102.9 billion U.S. dollars)

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's only policy-oriented insurer specializing in export credit insurance registered steady business growth in 2020 amid the COVID-19 epidemic. The China Expo

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Drone services expanded in China last year as the emerging technology has been promoted in various sectors, official data showed. There were about 523,600 regist

WUHAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Hubei Province, which was once hit hard by COVID-19, has sent medical supplies worth about 10 million yuan (about 1.55 million U.S. dollars) to north Chin

BAGHDAD, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Ministry of Health reported on Saturday 596 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total nationwide infections to 607,587. The ministry also reported three n

NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Gary Locke, former U.S. secretary of commerce, ambassador to China, and governor of Washington State, has been elected by members of the Committee of 100 to take over

TAIPEI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan has climbed to 850, with seven new cases on Saturday, the island's epidemic monitoring agency said. The new cases were impo

ZHUJI, China, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Liaoning Flying Leopards continued their winning streak by outscoring the Guangzhou Loong Lions 99-91 in the second phase of the Chinese Basketball Association

BAKU, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A vaccine made by Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech will be used for mass vaccination against COVID-19 in Azerbaijan, the country's health authorities anno

BELGRADE, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A million doses of China's Sinopharm inactivated coronavirus vaccines arrived at the Belgrade Airport in Serbia on Saturday, the government confirmed in a press releas

Beijing’s retaliation plans against London offering Hongkongers holding British National (Overseas) passports a pathway to the right of abode boil down to making public officers with such documents prove their loyalty, analysts have said.Civil servants and other officials could soon find themselves facing the tough choice between keeping their BN(O) […]

Five Hong Kong fugitives who reportedly fled to Taiwan and were intercepted by the self-ruled island’s coastguard in July last year are now seeking asylum in the United States, according to an activist group.Without naming the individuals, US-based Samuel Chu of the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC) said in a statement the five had their hearts “filled […]

PanARMENIAN.Net - China on Saturday, January 16 finished building a 1,500-room hospital for Covid-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to conta

HONG KONG, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has voiced strong objection to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China's newly released 20

India began its COVID-19 vaccine campaign Saturday. Frontline workers are slated to receive the first inoculations.The campaign began after Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a nationall

HARBIN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Wangkui County in Suihua City of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province launched a second round of countywide nucleic acid testing on Friday, according to

Hong Kong police are investigating after viral videos emerged showing two men having sex and masturbating on an MTR train.In one 45-second clip, the naked pair are seen cavorting in an empty train carriage on the Tung Chung line. Clothes are strewn on the seats.One of the men is also seen in another 30-second video taking a selfie in what appears to be the […]

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest updates on the COVID-19 global confirmed cases in several countries by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Univ

Hong Kong, January 16 (ANI): The Hong Kong government on Saturday hit out at the United States for imposing stringent sanctions against six officials for their role in implementing the Beijing-imposed

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Weather forecast for 20 major Chinese cities and regions on Jan. 17 (temperatures in Celsius):　　　　　　 Min.　Max.

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The approved quotas of the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) program, a scheme that allows Chinese investors to access foreign assets, totaled 125.72 bil

Recent police crackdowns on illegal racing in Hong Kong found two sports cars equipped with devices apparently meant to avoid being caught by detectors, the Post has learned, as complaints of speeding surged by 40 per cent for most of last year.One vehicle had an electronic gadget to flip up the licence plate and prevent it being photographed, while the […]

New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): A total of 8,100 healthcare workers at 81 locations across the national capital will be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus today, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind

ZHUJI, China, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- With five players scoring double-digits, the Beijing Ducks rode a dominant first half to crush the Jiangsu Dragons 120-91 in the Chinese Basketball Association (CB

CHENGDU, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A prototype locomotive using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) maglev technology has been unveiled in southwest China's city of Chengdu.The do

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Retail sales in Brazil, one of the engines of the country's economy, fell by 0.1 percent in November 2020 against October, ending six consecutive monthly increases, the Brazilian