
Xi urges steps to ‘protect’ lives as China battles Covid wave
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged officials on Monday to take steps to protect lives in his first public remarks on Covid-19 since Beijing dramatically…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping urged officials on Monday to take steps to protect lives in his first public remarks on Covid-19 since Beijing dramatically…
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China deployed 71 warplanes in weekend military exercises around Taiwan, Taipei's defense ministry said Monday, including dozens of fighter jets in one of the…
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Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored…
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The Philippine peso on Friday, 23 December, ended the day at P55.15, weaker than its P55.09 against the US dollar on Thursday.
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Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of…
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The Philippines ordered its military to boost its presence in the South China Sea on Thursday, citing a "threat" to a garrison in the disputed…
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Attached to a breathing tube under a pile of blankets, an old man racked with Covid-19 lay groaning on a stretcher in the emergency department of a hospital in…
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The Philippine peso on Wednesday, 21 December, appreciated against the US dollar after ending the day at P55.1 against the US dollar from its P55.24 close a…
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The Philippines said Wednesday it was "seriously concerned" over a report that China has started reclaiming several unoccupied land features in the…
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The Chinese Embassy in the Philippines on Tuesday blasted the United States for "meddling" in the South China Sea issue.
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Crematoriums across China are straining to deal with an influx of bodies as the country battles a wave of Covid cases that authorities have said is impossible…
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The Philippine peso on Tuesday, 20 December, gained against the US dollar after closing the trade at P55.24 from its P55.41 close on Monday.
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The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its China growth forecast for the year as the pandemic and weaknesses in the property sector hit the world's second largest…
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Taiwan has launched a probe into an allegedly illegal subsidiary set up by TikTok on the island as it warned the Chinese-owned social media app was a security…
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The Philippine peso on Friday, 16 December, improved to P55.56 against the US dollar from P55.685 close a day ago.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – The "competition" between the United States and China is the "last thing" that the Association of Southeast Asian…
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The Philippine Peso ended the day stronger on Wednesday, 14 December, at P55.745 compared to its P55.9 close against the US dollar on Tuesday.
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US gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment is in talks to bring popular title "World of Warcraft" back to China after a previous local licensing deal…
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