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China considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines due to low efficacy rates

China’s top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy. Available data shows Chinese vaccines lag behind others including Pfizer and Moderna in terms of efficacy, but require less stringent temperature controls during storage. Giving people doses of different vaccines is one […]

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Nepal government lax in bringing Chinese grant of vaccines

Nepal Government has failed to bring the anti-COVID vaccines provided by China as grant. As many as 800,000 doses of vaccines produced by the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm are stuck in Beijing because Nepal government has failed to arrange its import. Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi had announced on March 1 that a total

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China vows to beef up ‘weather modification’ capabilities

SHANGHAI, Dec 3 (Reuters) – China wants to boost its ability to modify the weather and will extend an artificial rain and snow programme to cover at least 5.5 million square kilometres of land by 2025, the country’s cabinet said late on Wednesday. The State Council said in policy guidelines that it would ensure that

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China to launch moon probe, seeking first lunar rock retrieval since 1970s

BEIJING, Nov 22 (Reuters) – China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s. The Chang’e-5 probe, named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon, will seek to collect

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China passes biosecurity law to prevent infectious diseases

SHANGHAI, Oct 18 (Reuters) – China’s top legislative body passed a new biosecurity law aimed at preventing and managing infectious diseases, state news agency Xinhua reported late on Saturday. The National People’s Congress Standing Committee voted to adopt the law on Saturday, according to Xinhua, and it would come into effect on April 15, 2021.

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China defends Tibet labour program, urges against overdoing religion

LHASA, China, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Top officials in Chinese-administered Tibet on Thursday defended a vocational training program that some critics have called coercive, and urged Tibetans not to “overdo” religion, during a briefing with foreign journalists on a rare visit to the region. The transfer program, which involves government-set quotas for labourers and includes

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Chinese city of Qingdao punishes two officials over coronavirus cluster

BEIJING, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The Chinese city of Qingdao said on Thursday it had suspended its health commission head and sacked a hospital director following an outbreak of coronavirus infections that ended China’s run of about two months without reporting a local case. The coastal city has reported 13 recent infections, most of them

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Taiwan president says drills show China is threat to whole region

TAIPEI, Sept 20 (Reuters) – The last two days of Chinese aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese even more clearly the true nature of China’s government, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday. Multiple Chinese aircraft flew across the mid line of the Taiwan Strait

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Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China

TAIPEI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater prominence to the island’s name. Taiwan has complained during the outbreak that its nationals have encountered problems entering other countries,

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China can make India suffer ‘severe’ military losses – Global Times

SHANGHAI, Sept 1 (Reuters) – China is able to make India suffer more severe military losses than in the past if it wants to engage in competition, state-backed newspaper Global Times said on Tuesday, after a fresh border flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. Indian forces foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to occupy a

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