The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening.The announcement Saturday was the first official death toll
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China renews threat against Taiwan
China renewed its threats Wednesday to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are "playing with fire." A spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the country was recommitted in the new year to "safeguarding sovereignty and territorial integrity" and "smashing plots for Taiwan
Maintaining good ties with both US, China challenging: Momen
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh is maintaining good relations with both global powers USA and China through its balanced foreign policy, though it is a "challenging" task. "That is a challenging thing. They (US, China) might have their own problems. That is their headache, not ours.
China suspends social media accounts of COVID policy critics
China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government's policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to further open up.The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars and medical workers
WHO keeps urging China to share more data on Covid
The UN health agency has "continued to urge China" to share more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalisations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive, real-time viral sequencing in the wake of a Covid surge in the East Asian country. "The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the risk
China targets seniors in COVID reopening push
China is loosening curbs in the wake of mass protests over its zero-COVID policy, but exiting the controversial strategy hinges on a key stumbling block: vaccinating more seniors. Thousands hit the streets nationwide last week in an unprecedented challenge to almost three years of some of the world's strictest virus measures,
China recalibrates zero-COVID as patience runs thin
Sun Chunlan, China's vice premier and COVID-19 czar, sat at a conference table surrounded by health experts wearing masks. "With the weakening of the pathogenicity of omicron, the popularity of vaccination, [and] the accumulation of experience in prevention and control, China is facing a new situation and new tasks," Beijing's
Lugang Technology to invest US$ 23 million in Ishwardi EPZ
Lugang Technology (Bangladesh) Limited, a Hong Kong (China) owned company, is going to establish a textile industry at Ishwardi Export Processing Zone (IEPZ). This fully foreign owned company will invest US$ 22.99 million where 3182 Bangladeshi nationals will get jobs, said a press release issued on Wednesday. The company will produce annually
How Xi Jinping’s 10 years in power changed China
How Bangladesh, China and India can be drawn into Myanmar conflict
Rakhine state has become a de facto battleground for the competing interests of Beijing, Delhi and Dhaka. The 2021 military coup in Myanmar sparked renewed civil conflict between Myanmar government forces, the Tatmadaw, and perhaps a dozen insurgent groups seeking their own ethnic states. Many of these conflicts have cross-border implications,