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BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese authorities imposed fresh travel limits, cancelled flights and tested thousands of residents in Guangdong Monday after the Indian variant of the coronavirus was reported in the country’s most populous province. Travellers leaving Guangzhou — the capital of the southern province home to 100 million people — must show negative Covid-19 test results from the past 72 hours, starting from 10:00 pm on Monday, the city said in an announcement late […]
(REUTERS) China and Russia will hold eight days of naval drills in the South China Sea off southern China’s Guangdong province starting from Monday, China’s navy said. The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the contested waters after an arbitration court in The Hague ruled in July that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea and criticized its environmental destruction there. China rejected the ruling and refused […]
Torrential rains brought by Typhoon Chan-Hom have wreaked havoc in many parts of east China’s Zhejiang Province for the past two days, including causing severe flooding, landslides and damaging many roads. A total of 20 counties in the province reported more than 100 millimeters of rainfall during a 36-hour period. In the coast city of Zhoushan, where the typhoon made landfall on Saturday afternoon, the persistent downpour led to knee-deep floodwaters in the low-lying […]
