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Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on March 26.

Shanghai (AFP) - Shanghai residents voiced frustration Friday at a week of snap Covid lockdowns, complaining online about food shortages and bewildering stay-at-home orders.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China on Wednesday in his first visit to the key ally since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine last month. In a post on its Weibo social media account, the Russian embassy in Beijing confirmed Lavrov had landed in the eastern city of…

Shanghai's COVID-19 lockdown is extended to some western parts of the city earlier than scheduled, as robots with loudspeakers remind millions of people to stay at home.

Beijing (AFP) - Thousands of miles from a home consumed by conflict, a group of Ukrainians in China have found themselves on the frontlines of an information war, battling pro-Russia bias, trolls and censorship.

As the Omicron variant takes hold, some say the country’s hardline approach is causing more deaths than the virus itself

The SEC added the Chinese social media platform Weibo Corp (NASDAQ:WB) to its provisional list of companies identified under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act.  The SEC is required to identify public companies that have retained a public accounting firm to issue an audit report where the firm has a branch or office…

Entrenched gender inequality and the heavy hand of censors can no longer silence female voices in China.

Authorities in the Chinese city of Shanghai have denied rumours of a city-wide lockdown after a sixth straight increase in daily asymptomatic coronavirus cases pushed its count to record levels despite a campaign of mass testing aimed at stifling the spread.

China locks down another city of 9 million people overnight as frustration grows over the nation's "zero-COVID" strategy for battling an Omicron outbreak.

In footage shared on social media last week, a crowd of people in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang bang against the windows of a clothing market as they shout in frustration at the announcement of yet another round of COVID-19 tests.