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Dogs trapped on 'truck from hell' rescued before they're butchered for meat festival

Video footage by animal charity NoToDogMeat shows campaigners and police stopping a truck at a checkpoint as it headed from Xi'an in China to the festival yesterday

Daily Mirror · Jun 19, 2022

COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck

As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck.

Reuters · May 18, 2022

Beijing Covid Spike Prompts Mass Testing, Panic Buying

Fears of a hard Covid lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing on Monday, as long queues for compulsory mass testing formed in a large central district of the Chinese capital. China is already trying to contain a wave of infections in its largest city Shanghai, which has been almost entirely…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 25, 2022