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Two giant pandas have predicted that Argentina will win the World Cup over France

The pandas correctly predicted that Argentina would beat Croatia in the first semifinal match last, and they also rightly chose France over Morocco. Now, they predict Argentina will win the final.

WEKU

Beijing, Major Chinese Cities Battle First Wave of COVID Surge

Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centers from north to south. China is currently in the first of an expected three waves of COVID cases this winter, according to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Streets deserted in China's cities as new COVID surge looms

Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south.

Reuters

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MPs call for China to be officially deemed a ‘threat’ to UK

But ministers should avoid adopting strong language that is not ‘coupled with action’, the Foreign Affairs Committee warned.

The Independent UK

India parades a ballistic missile dubbed the 'China killer' just days after the two countries clash at a contested border. What's going on?

Soldiers from India and China have clashed along a disputed border, sparking calls for restraint and de-escalation. Now there's concern about what will happen next between the nuclear-powered countries.

ABC News

ParalympicsGB chief delivers message after grabbing prestigious national UK Sport award

Phil Smith, ParalympicsGB's chef de mission for this year's Winter Games in Beijing, has been recognised for his work in China by winning UK Sport’s prestigious PLx Award for Spirit of High Performance

Wales Online

Wang Tao: Key Takeaways From China’s Central Economic Work Conference

Stabilizing growth is the top priority, with measures to boost the real estate sector and a supportive tone for non-SOEs, foreign investors and online platforms

Caixin Global

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Factories in China feel brunt of rising COVID infections

BEIJING / SHENYANG -- The end of Chi- na's zero-COVID measures is likely to dampen its economy for some time, as the abrupt policy change has unleashed a rapid spread of infections, with an increasing number of factories consequently forced to slow down.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Shanghai shuts schools as Covid surges

SHANGHAI: Shanghai will shut most schools again from Monday, reverting to an element of China’s old coronavirus playbook as the rapid dismantling of pandemic restrictions spurs an explosion in cases.

Bangkok Post

New COVID Model Predicts over 1 Mln Deaths in China through 2023

China's abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). According to the group's projections, cases in China would peak around April 1, when deaths…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

Reuters

EXPLAINER: Why Japan is boosting its arms capability, budget

Japan this week adopted a new national security strategy that includes determination to possess “counterstrike” capability to preempt enemy attacks and double its spending to gain a more offensive footing and improve its resilience to protect itself from growing risks from China, North Korea and Russia

The Independent UK

In COVID-hit Beijing, funeral homes and crematoriums are busy

Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday while workers at the city's dozen funeral homes were busier than normal, days after China reversed tight pandemic restrictions.

Reuters

What Trump promised, Biden seeks to deliver in his own way

Donald Trump pledged to fix U.S. infrastructure as president

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New COVID model predicts over 1 million deaths in China through 2023

China's abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the U.S.-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

The Guardian - UK

‘What was it for?’: the mental toll of China’s three years in Covid lockdowns

As the government abandons ‘zero Covid’, it may take decades for ordinary Chinese people to recover – and many aren’t sure it was worth it

The Independent UK

US poised to ban shark fin trade, pleasing conservationists

The U.S. is poised to ban the lucrative trade in shark fins, a move conservationists hope will help protect millions of sharks that are butchered every year to satisfy demand in China and other parts of Asia

Bangkok Post

Jitta keen on Asian trio

The outlook is bullish for stock exchanges in Thailand, China and Vietnam, according to Jitta Wealth Asset Management, as those three bourses offer the top investment returns among global peers for 2023.

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Bangkok Post

US blacklists more Chinese tech firms

The Biden administration on Thursday added Chinese memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co Ltd (YMTC) and 21 "major" Chinese players in the artificial intelligence chip sector to a trade blacklist, broadening its crackdown on China's chip industry.

Bangkok Post

Asian shares fall amid tougher rate talk

RECAP: Asian shares declined yesterday, as continued interest rate hikes and a steadfast hawkish stance by major central banks fuelled global recession worries and sapped risk sentiment, driving US and European markets down.

InsideEVs

Estimated Tesla Order Backlog Decreased To Below 200,000

Tesla's estimated global electric car order backlog has been quickly decreasing for several months now and most recently it dropped below 200,000 units.

Fortune

Putin’s energy crisis in Europe has pushed global coal use to a historic high—but here’s why it won’t stay that way for long

Global coal use will rise 1.2% this year to just over eight billion tons, according to the International Energy Agency.

Tribune News Service

Biden’s China tech crackdown leaves Xi with few ways to hit back

The U.S. has sharpened its assault on China’s technology industry with a flurry of export bans and stifling restrictions on companies, an escalation that leaves Beijing with few options to retaliate.

Fortune

The chief investment officer at the world’s biggest hedge fund says we’re headed for a recession that’s ‘double the normal length’—and it has a lot to do with China

“You have this long grind that’s probably a couple years.”

Al Jazeera

US to launch new diplomatic approach to China with ‘China House’

The new unit in the US Department of State aims to create ‘more consistent policy’ towards China, a rival global power.

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