Sunday 29 May, 2022
The Good Information Podcast looks at the evolving relationship between Ireland, the EU and China.
The files were published as UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet begins a long-awaited and controversial trip to Xinjiang.
A Chinese official referred to the Taiwan issue as a “purely internal affair for China”, in reaction to Biden’s remark.
The city of 25 million has been under heavy restrictions since early April.
The World Health Organisation has said the mounting economic toll of severe restrictions could be unsustainable.
Carrie Lam spoke after her successor John Lee was elected unopposed by a pro-Beijing committee.
China’s capital is trying to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with restrictions on movement.
Kami Rita, whose father was among the first Sherpa guides, first scaled Everest in 1994 and has been making the trip nearly every year since.
John Lee, who oversaw the crackdown on Hong Kong’s democracy movement, was appointed Hong Kong leader on Sunday by a small committee of Beijing loyalists.
Eleven people have been detained in connection with the collapse.
Deaths from Covid-19 in Hong Kong have fallen from a high of almost 300 per day in March to zero in recent days.
The woman was conscious and advised rescuers on how to pull her out without causing further injury.
Dozens of people are still trapped or missing after the incident in Changsha, in Hunan province, on Friday.
No casualties have been reported so far and city authorities said five people were rescued from the collapsed structure overnight.
China is facing its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020.
Downtown Beijing’s most populous district Chaoyang, home to around 3.5 million people, ordered mass testing from today.
The EU has spent 18 months looking into how malicious foreign actors are manipulating public debate. It has plans for how to stop them – but will they work?
Patients have reported trouble accessing regular medical care as thousands of health staff were deployed to covid testing.
China’s largest city is inching towards reopening.
All three who died had not been vaccinated against the virus and were elderly.
The government reported 29,411 new cases yesterday.
About 6.6 million people can go outdoors, but some must stay in their own neighbourhoods in the Chinese city.
The US State Department said the order is an upgrade from the “authorised” departure issued last week that made the decision voluntary.
Large swathes of the city, with a population of 26 million, have been under lockdown since March 28.
Strict anti-coronavirus controls are confining most of its 25 million people to their homes.
Lam’s five years in office saw massive pro-democracy protests and the implementation of a controversial national security law.
Gardaí allegedly arrested Yihan Wu at the Embassy.
Australian Ambassador Graham Fletcher was told he could not be present on the grounds that the trial involved state secrets.
The megacity of 25 million has been split in two as part of a rolling lockdown.
Video clips posted by China’s state media showed small pieces of the Boeing 737-800 scattered over the area.
The Boeing 737-800 crashed yesterday afternoon near Wuzhou in the Guangxi region and ignited a fire.
The Boeing 737 plane crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city.
This marks the two leaders’ first call since a video summit in November.
The city has recorded nearly a million infections and more than 4,600 deaths in the last three months.
Training was held near Mount Fuji as the allies strengthen military cooperation.
China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, more than double the previous day’s tally.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Yang Jiechi, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief diplomat, met today.
Bus services in the city of 24 million people were suspended and a negative Covid-19 test was required from anyone who wanted to enter.
China reported another 397 cases of local transmission nationwide on Friday.
According to Polish media, the decision is linked to an article in the British daily Daily Mail.
