China leads vaccine R&D
A staff member displays a sample of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at a vaccine production plant of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in Beijing, capital of China, April 10, 2020.…
Japan could face higher unemployment risks: think tank analysis
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing a face mask amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19, attends an upper house committee meeting at the parliament in Tokyo on Wednesday. Photo:…
ASEAN holds special summit on response to COVID-19 pandemic
Photo taken in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi on April 14, 2020 shows ASEAN leaders attending the Special ASEAN Summit on COVID-19.Photo:Xinhua The Special Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit on…
Asian leaders to meet on COVID-19
20th ASEAN plus three (APT) commemorative summit in 2017. Photo: Xinhua A special video conference on handling the COVID-19 pandemic will be held on Tuesday among top officials from China, South Korea,…
‘No discrimination’ against Africans amid pandemic
Mansur Barhama Abulfathi (L) from Nigeria translates for his friend at a company in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. Photo: Xinhua By Leng Shumei and Chen Qingqing S The controversy…
Exclusive: GT probes in Wuhan, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou refute US slander
By Zhao Yusha in Wuhan and Ma Jingjing in Beijing Editor's Note: Western politicians and media outlets have now found a new target in their "coronavirus blame game" against China,…
Russia keen to learn Chinese methods amid COVID-19 fight: observers
Chinese medical experts pose for a photo before boarding a plane at an airport in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, April 11, 2020. A team of 10 Chinese medical experts…
Twitter restores account as Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka demands freedom of speech
The screenshot of the official Twitter account of the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka. Photo: screenshot The official Twitter account of the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka was reinstated on…
US trade war, COVID-19 impact – What China’s Q1 trade data tells us?
Cargo ships pass through the Wuhan Junshan Yangtze River Bridge, Central China's Hubei Province, on Saturday. Wuhan, which was hard hit by COVID-19, started lifting outbound travel restrictions on Wednesday…
India plans to resume some manufacturing amid lockdown: sources
Mohammed Shan-e-alam, a 25-year-old cancer patient from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh state, rests on a bed in a night shelter set up by Delhi Government outside the All India Institute…