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Beijing city government has passed a law to protect "non-malicious" medical whistleblowers. The law comes after a storm of criticism earlier this year after the government punished doctors who warned about the coronavirus. Doctor…

The United States government is considering banning cotton products from the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang because of the human rights situation there, The New York Times reports. The Uyghurs, a Muslim minority from…

China will face American journalists in Hong Kong in retaliation if the United States does not renew the visas of Chinese journalists in the US, said the chief editor of the Chinese newspaper Global Times. Tensions between the…

China threatens to stop issuing visas to Americans with "outrageous behaviour" on Hong Kong-related matters. In doing so, China wants to retaliate US sanctions against Chinese officials. The announcement came Monday while the…

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, and tens of people killed or missing in southern China due to floods and mudslides. State media report this on Thursday. The bad weather has wreaked havoc on tourist areas…

The Chinese government is open to an independent international investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus. That said the Chinese ambassador in Berlin to the German news and opinion magazine Der Spiegel. China is under…

According to a study, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in China is probably four times higher than has been reported so far. That reports The Guardian. Based on figures from the World Health Organization (WHO),…

The stock markets in China fell sharply on Monday, following the extended holiday period around the Chinese New Year. The financial markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen were closed since January 23 and investors could only now respond to the…

A new virus, hitherto unknown to science, leads to many cases of severe pneumonia in eastern China. Forty-one people are infected, two patients have died. The exact cause of the infection is still unclear. An unknown virus that…

According to a preliminary result, she achieved 58 percent. The Taiwanese therefore opt for permanent independence and against more ties with China. "Taiwan shows the world how much we love our freedom." Taiwan is an independent state in…