Pandemic

By Lingling Wei and Jonathan Cheng Jan. 4, 2023 12:26 pm ET BEIJING—By the end of an otherwise triumphant Communist Party Congress for Xi Jinping in October, it was growing harder for China’s leader to argue that his zero-Covid policy was working. Reports were flowing into central government headquarters of…

As the new year commences, China’s top electric vehicle manufacturers have been announcing their delivery volume for the final month and entire year of 2022, a challenging period marked by repeated pandemic-induced lockdowns and supply chain shortages. In October of last year, GAC Aion, originating from traditional automaker GAC Group,…

RTHK has learnt that the government is hoping to first open the cross-border checkpoints at Lok Ma Chau, Man Kam To as well as the Hong Kong Macau Ferry Terminal when quarantine-free cross-border travel resumes as early as Sunday. Border control points that had been operating throughout the pandemic –…

A succession of locally-made hit films released in the second half of the year helped the cinema box office in Hong Kong to stage a remarkable comeback in 2022. Aggregate box office for the year was HK$1.14 billion ($147 million), some 40% lower than pre-pandemic 2019, according to new data…

The Ngurah Rai Immigration Office reported today that 2,176,004 foreigners entered Bali via the airport throughout 2022 – as good an indication as any that the Island of Gods is waking up from its pandemic slumber, albeit not at 100 percent yet. The number of international arrivals in 2022 was…

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Brits across the country are nursing sore heads this morning after seeing out 2022 with a bang last night.  Revellers from Edinburgh to London braved wet and windy conditions to ring in 2023 in the first fully free New Year's Eve celebrations since the Covid-19 pandemic.  Women were pictured covering…

Puzzles and quizzes Kick off 2023 by testing your memory and attention to detail Although the global Covid pandemic continued to be felt around the world, war returning to Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is what 2022 will mainly be remembered for.  The invasion of Ukraine in March – the…

Commentary While we will finally be looking at the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror in 2023, we still have the consequences of the pandemic and government responses to it to deal with. North America had already been struggling to deal with the growth in opioid addiction prior to 2021.…

BEIJING, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Saturday for more effort and unity as the country enters a "new phase" in its approach to combating the pandemic, in his first comments addressed to the public on COVID-19 since his government changed course three weeks ago and…