SINODAILY - SINO DAILY

Beijing says Chinese professor confessed to spying

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

Yuan Keqin was investigated on suspicion of espionage and had "confessed to the facts of the crime", ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular press brie...

Hubei residents rush to leave China virus epicentre as lockdown lifts

Mar 25, 2020 (AFP)

Strict curbs on daily life are finally being lifted, allowing healthy people to head home and see loved ones after weeks of separation. At a railway station in ...

Australia condemns China's 'indictment' of academic; China urged to reverse US media explusion

Mar 25, 2020 (AFP)

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Jun -- also known by his pen name Yang Hengjun -- was detained over a year ago, soon after making a rare return to China from the...

Media groups urge China to reconsider expulsion of US journalists

Mar 24, 2020 (AFP)

A joint letter from the three news organizations to the Chinese governments said the media is suffering "collateral damage" from a diplomatic dispute between th...

China virus epicentre to open up as world locks down

Mar 24, 2020 (AFP)

Hubei province, where the novel coronavirus emerged late last year, will allow healthy residents to travel from midnight, officials said, two months after they ...

UN experts voice alarm as rights lawyers disappear in China

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

Ding Jiaxi, a prominent Beijing-based disbarred lawyer, previously jailed for protesting against official corruption, and lawyers Zhang Zhongshun and Dai Zhenya...

Italian-Czech imbroglio over donated Chinese virus masks

Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)

The problem is crucial in Italy, the country currently paying the heaviest price, with almost 5,000 deaths and its hospitals at breaking point. But the Czech Re...

Anxious Chinese urge kin to leave virus-hit Europe

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

With new domestic coronavirus cases falling to zero in China, the country where the disease first emerged now looks like a safe haven compared to the worsening ...

Mask diplomacy: China tries to rewrite virus narrative

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

Beijing has showered struggling European nations with aid as part of a diplomatic charm offensive. In recent weeks, it has also donated hundreds of thousands of...

US, China accuse each other of coronavirus fear-mongering

Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)

"The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus," the US presid...

Shanghai skyscrapers' viewing platforms re-open as virus eases

Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)

The 632-metre (2,073-foot) Shanghai Tower -- the world's second-tallest building -- and the futuristic Oriental Pearl Tower Radio and Television Tower were amon...

China turns to therapy amid virus lockdown

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

A shortage of mental health providers is exacerbating the problem in the country where unprecedented measures to contain the deadly outbreak have left tens of m...

China charges Xi critic with 'subversion', say activists

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

Xu Zhiyong has been detained since February 15, after publishing a series of blogposts criticising the Communist Party's response to the coronavirus outbreak th...

Bomb-making materials seized by Hong Kong police

Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)

Twenty-two properties across the Chinese territory were raided in an operation linked to the detonation of an explosive device in January. Two Hong Kong groups ...

'It's humiliating': China's virus controls raise hackles

Mar 07, 2020 (AFP)

A video of the incident in the northern province of Hebei has been widely shared on social media amid growing anger over apparently arbitrary measures aimed at ...

Pregnant women scared to give birth in virus-hit China

Mar 06, 2020 (AFP)

One new mother, surnamed Xie, told AFP she gave birth to her baby girl in Wuhan earlier this month alone, because nobody from her family was allowed to come wit...

'China is not an immigrant country': draft law sparks online racism

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

The proposal, released by the justice ministry last week, has been gathering billions of views and a flood of angry posts on social media, targeting Africans in...

China ordered to slash state media staff in US

Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)

The move comes two weeks after China expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters, although the US said its decision was based on leveling numbers between the c...

China steps up visa threats against foreign reporters: media group

Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)

In its annual report, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said it also feared Beijing was preparing to kick out more reporters, with two journalists this ...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested over pro-democracy rally

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

The 72-year-old owner of the Apple Daily newspaper is accused of joining a rally on August 31 that had been banned by police for security reasons. Lai was arres...