Outcry as Shanghai sends vulnerable senior citizens into makeshift quarantine camps
By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown…
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‘Voices of April’: China’s internet erupts in protest against censorship of Shanghai lockdown video
By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The shouts of locked-down residents demanding basic necessities, the cries of babies separated from…
Continue Reading Outcry as Shanghai sends vulnerable senior citizens into makeshift quarantine camps
By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown…
Continue Reading At least six dead as multiple explosions hit Kabul schools
By Ehsan Popalzai, Nicola Careem and Hannah Ritchie, CNN At least six people have been killed and 11 others injured after multiple explosions rocked…
Continue Reading Shanghai reports first official Covid deaths in weeks-long lockdown
By Nectar Gan, CNN Shanghai reported three Covid-19 deaths Monday, the first officially announced fatalities from a raging Omicron outbreak that has…
Continue Reading Shanghai reports first official Covid deaths in weeks-long lockdown
By Nectar Gan, CNN Shanghai reported three Covid-19 deaths Monday, the first officially announced fatalities from a raging Omicron outbreak that has…
Continue Reading Remote island ramps up defenses as tensions rise between Japan and China
By Blake Essig, Junko Ogura, Daniel Campisi and Emiko Jozuka, CNN On most days, fisherman Kazushi Kinjo leaves port on the Japanese island of…
Continue Reading Russia’s threat to retaliate against US-Japan naval exercises shows it’s getting jumpy, analysts say
By Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Russia has warned Japan of “retaliatory measures” if it expands joint naval exercises with the…
Continue Reading North Korean leader shown observing weapons test as country fires projectiles into eastern waters
By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN North Korea fired two projectiles into waters off the east of the Korean Peninsula Saturday evening, according…
Continue Reading Surgery by mobile phone light and reusing catheters: Sri Lanka’s economic woes push hospitals to the brink of disaster
By Rukshana Rizwie and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Three-year-old Miru plays with a bright red toy car, seemingly oblivious to the crisis unfolding…
Continue Reading China is sending its most advanced fighter jet to patrol disputed seas
By Jessie Yeung and Brad Lendon, CNN China has begun sending its most advanced fighter aircraft, the J-20, to patrol the East and South China Seas,…
Continue Reading New Zealand court grants China’s extradition request for murder suspect in landmark case
By Jessie Yeung, CNN New Zealand’s top court ruled Wednesday that a murder suspect can be extradited to China to face trial in a landmark…
Continue Reading Storm Megi death toll rises as hundreds of thousands displaced in Philippines
By Akanksha Sharma, CNN The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Megi has risen to 76 while hundreds of thousands of others remain…
Continue Reading Twitter users are exposing pro-Russian sentiment in China, and Beijing is not happy
By Simone McCarthy Anonymous Twitter users are exposing the extreme nationalism and pro-Russian sentiment circulating online in China — and…
Continue Reading Twitter users are exposing pro-Russian sentiment in China, and Beijing is not happy
By Simone McCarthy Anonymous Twitter users are exposing the extreme nationalism and pro-Russian sentiment circulating online in China — and…
Continue Reading Who is Pakistan’s new Prime Minister? Steel dynasty scion Shehbaz Sharif inherits an ailing economy amid political turmoil
By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan’s new leader Shehbaz Sharif called for “unity” and vowed to repair the country’s…
Continue Reading China accuses US of ‘weaponizing’ extended Shanghai lockdown
By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau China has lashed out at the United States for ordering its consulate staff to leave the locked-down…
Continue Reading Pressure builds as Shanghai, a city of 25 million, remains locked inside
By David Culver, CNN The distant echo of a megaphone blares most mornings from the narrow laneway where I live in Shanghai, summoning me and my…
Continue Reading Pakistan’s parliament votes in opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister
By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Aliza Kassim CNN Pakistan’s lawmakers voted in opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new…
Continue Reading Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted as country’s leader following vote of no-confidence
By Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted as the country’s leader following a vote of no…
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