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Staff shortages dent Hong Kong’s bid to recapture travel hub status
HONG KONG, China—Regional airlines are struggling to ramp up flights to Hong Kong because of staff shortages at the airport, slowing the city’s plan to recapture its travel hub status, industry insiders have told AFP.
Hong Kong, which calls itself Asi…
36 killed, two missing in China plant fire
Thirty-six people have been killed and two remain missing after a fire broke out at a plant of a trading firm in central China, local authorities said on Tuesday.
It took firefighters more than four hours to douse the fire that broke out on Monday at t…
He Lifeng: China’s expected new economic tsar has big shoes to fill
BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) – He Lifeng, head of China’s state planning agency, is likely to succeed the country’s economic tsar Vice Premier Liu He in March, but may struggle to maintain his predecessor’s policy clout.…
Thi…
COVID curbs slow iPhone production at biggest factory
BEJING, China—Millions of people in China were under tight Covid restrictions on Wednesday as sporadic outbreaks across the country prompted business closures and disruption at the world’s largest iPhone factory.
China is the last major economy welded…
COVID curbs slow iPhone production at biggest factory
BEJING, China—Millions of people in China were under tight Covid restrictions on Wednesday as sporadic outbreaks across the country prompted business closures and disruption at the world’s largest iPhone factory.
China is the last major economy welded…
FACTBOX-China’s new political elites and their connection to Xi
Xi Jinping on Sunday secured a third term as leader of China’s ruling Communist Party and unveiled a new leadership team dominated by his allies, including the entire seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, which he heads. Most of the wider Politbu…
As leaders meet, Chinese hope for end to ‘zero-COVID’ limits
As China’s ruling Communist Party holds a congress this week, many Beijing residents are focused on an issue not on the formal agenda: Will the end of the meeting bring an easing of China’s at times draconian “zero-COVID” policies that are disrupting l…
As leaders meet, Chinese hope for end to ‘zero-COVID’ limits
A man has his throat swabbed for a COVID-19 test at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, on Oct. 19.Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press
As China’s ruling Communist Party holds a congress this week, many Beijing residents are focused on an issue n…
China’s heat waves show its climate adaptation plans have a way to go
China just finished one of its most disastrous summers on record, with record-breaking heat, drought, and wildfires leading to water shortages even into the fall. More than 900 million people — or about 64 percent of China’s population — faced brutal …
China sees tourism recovering
University students from Xi’an and Tianjin take “selfies” at the footpath of the Huashan Mountain in Weinan, Northwest China’s Shaanxi province on July 9. In June, the scenic spot attracted 289,000 tourists, seeing a surge in op…