By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – Christian Gassner, whose furniture components factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen had a dismal end of 2022 amid COVID-19 outbreaks, is …
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(Reuters) – Belgium will test wastewater from planes arriving from China for new COVID variants as part of new steps against the spread of the coronavirus as infections in China …
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By Alessandro Diviggiano, Ryan Woo and Winni Zhou BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday while …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state-owned telecom giant China Unicom said on Monday it will delete users’ mobile itinerary data previously used to identify travellers in COVID-stricken areas from Dec. 13. …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Apple supplier Foxconn has hit a hiring target of 100,000 new workers for its Zhengzhou plant in China, financial news outlet Yicai reported on Thursday, a milestone …
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By Ellen Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING -China’s state planner said on Thursday it had approved 10 fixed-asset investments worth 121 billion yuan ($18.1 billion) in May, a more than …
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By Kevin Yao BEIJING – Chinese provinces are racing to issue some $225 billion of bonds in June, frontloading investment to revive the COVID-battered economy even as policy advisers step …
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SEOUL – South Korea unveiled plans on Thursday to pay more than $20 billion to small businesses and self-employed people to make up for losses due to COVID restrictions. The …
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By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. -National Guard members in New Mexico have begun substitute teaching and the governor said she would do the same in a bid to keep students …
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JERUSALEM – Israel’s cabinet approved additional state aid on Sunday to help bail out airlines suffering another pandemic blow with the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, the finance and …
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HONG KONG – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has ordered an inquiry into the behaviour of 13 senior government officials who attended the birthday bash of a delegate to China’s …