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  • Review going on into blood clot cases among AstraZeneca vaccine recipients: UK regulator

    Seven people have died from unusual blood clots after getting the AstraZeneca vaccine in Britain, the BBC reported on Saturday, quoting the country’s medicines regulator. LONDON, April 3 — Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has received 30 reports of blood clots out of a total of 18.1 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Read more

  • U.S. witnesses increase in COVID-19 cases with spring break looming

    The United States is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases, including cases from new and emerging COVID-19 variants, as experts are concerned about another surge amid the spring break. COVID-19 cases in the country were steadily decreasing for approximately 10 weeks. However, trends are changing, and cases have increased during the past 12 days, according Read more

  • Witnessing the real Xinjiang, foreign diplomats debunk lies

    From March 30 to April 2, a delegation comprising Vladimir Norov, secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and more than 30 diplomats from some 21 countries, visited Xinjiang. — They talked with locals from various sectors of society, visited local schools and enterprises, and debunked rumors about Xinjiang, a region whose image is frequently distorted Read more

  • Carrie Lam expects more prosperous Hong Kong with improved electoral system

    Looking ahead, Lam promised intensified efforts to improve education, media, and the training and management of civil servants. “With these work being done, people will have more confidence in ‘one country, two systems,’ no matter they are local residents, people from the mainland or foreigners.” — “We will certainly do more to reach out to Read more

  • Planting trees is growing a green future

    Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday joined Beijing citizens to plant trees and urged efforts to build a beautiful homeland with harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, reiterating the country’s determination to follow a green development path and pursue high-quality development. Xi has always attached great importance to ecological conservation and green development. His latest Read more

  • What does the Qingming Festival mean to Chinese people?

    The Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese festival that dates back more than 2,500 years. It falls on the first day of the fifth solar term of the year – usually varied from April 4 to 6. As the name implies, the holiday was initially a time when the admiration for life mixed with Read more

  • Train derails in Taiwan, at least 40 people feared dead

    At least 40 people are feared dead after a train derailed inside a tunnel in east Taiwan on Friday morning, according to local rescuers. The train, traveling to Taitung, came off the rails in a tunnel in the county of Hualien, causing some carriages to hit the wall of the tunnel, fire authorities in Hualien Read more

  • MOFA: CGTN documentary on Xinjiang exposes terrorism, extremism

    CGTN’s exclusive documentary on Xinjiang clearly showed that the region suffered gravely from extremism and terrorism, China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Friday, adding Xinjiang hasn’t seen a single terrorist attack over the past four years. Hua said Western countries have been fabricating lies, such as “genocide” and “forced labor,” about Xinjiang to Read more

  • China Cotton Association welcomes overseas industry organizations, brands to Xinjiang

    The China Cotton Association on Thursday strongly condemned the restrictions launched by some US-led Western countries against the textile industrial chain and related products in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The association welcomes overseas industry organizations, brands and third-party institutes to visit Xinjiang for field studies.  “We will promote environmentally-friendly, high quality and a Read more

  • Uganda FM says CPC “sterling example” for rest of the world

    Uganda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa said on Wednesday that the Communist Party of China (CPC) has set an example for the world. Noting that the CPC has succeeded in lifting millions of people out of poverty, Kutesa called it “a sterling example to copy,” adding that “our continued relationship will get us also Read more

  • HKSAR gov’t strongly objects to so-called Hong Kong Policy Act Report by U.S. State Department

    The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Thursday expressed strong opposition to the so-called Hong Kong Policy Act Report issued by the U.S. Department of State. The so-called Hong Kong Policy Act and sanctions imposed by the U.S. government are clearly interference in China’s internal affairs in the pretext of human rights, democracy Read more

  • U.S. welcomes EU-led meeting between Iran, world powers

    Representatives of China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain, and Iran will meet virtually on April 2 to discuss the prospect of a possible return of the United States to the JCPOA, the European Union said in a statement. WASHINGTON, April 1 — U.S. Department of State said on Thursday that it welcomes the EU-led virtual meeting Read more

  • Biden unveils major infrastructure plan amid opposition to tax hike

    To offset the plan’s massive costs, Biden proposed increasing the corporate income tax rate to 28 percent, up from the current 21 percent, attempting to partially reverse the tax cuts under the Donald Trump administration. WASHINGTON, April 1 — U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a 2-trillion-U.S.-dollar infrastructure plan, touting it as a “once-in-a-generation” Read more

  • WHO warns slow vaccine roll-out prolonging COVID-19 pandemic

    “Let me be clear: we must speed up the process by ramping up manufacturing, reducing barriers to administering vaccines, and using every single vial we have in stock, now,” said Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. According to WHO Europe, to date, only 10 percent of the region’s total population has received Read more

  • Egypt’s Suez Canal says to seek over 1-bln-USD compensation for losses caused by stuck ship

    “This is the right of the state and we will not give it up,” says chief of Suez Canal Authority, adding all 422 ships kept waiting will have crossed the waterway by Saturday at most. CAIRO, April 1 — Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) will seek over 1 billion U.S. dollars in compensation for the losses Read more

  • U.S.-Taiwan collusion tactics must stop

    The United States and Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority have devised new tricks in collusion as NASA listed Taiwan as a “country” on its official website. As an agency of the U.S. federal government, NASA can not be unaware of the three China-U.S. joint communiques and the history of successive U.S. administrations’ adherence to Read more

  • China urges U.S. to create favorable conditions for ties

    China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes a U.S. report over Hong Kong, urging the United States to create favorable conditions for bringing China-U.S. ties back on the track of healthy and stable development. So said a Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday. It came after the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday Read more

  • Implementing NPC’s decision to improve HKSAR’s electoral system is top priority: HKSAR chief executive

    Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said on Wednesday that the implementation of the National People’s Congress’ decision to improve the HKSAR’s electoral system will be a top priority for the region’s government in 2021. Lam made the remarks during an awards ceremony held for “The selection of the Read more

  • China and Singapore seek to boost travel links

    China and Singapore have discussed options for mutual recognition of health certificates to boost travel between the two nations. At a meeting between Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, the two parties also discussed wider issues around the pandemic, the situation in Myanmar and economic cooperation. Balakrishnan Read more

  • Senior Chinese diplomat meets Cambodian, Lao, Kuwaiti ambassadors

    Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met with Cambodian ambassador to China Khek Caimealy Sysoda, Lao ambassador to China Khamphao Ernthavanh, and Kuwaiti ambassador to China Sameeh Essa Johar Hayat respectively on Wednesday, calling for efforts to enhance bilateral relations with these Asian countries. Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Read more