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After China eased its zero-Covid policy and reopened its borders on January 8, 2023, tourism-dependent businesses in South Korea have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of mainland Chinese tourists. China’s nationwide surge in Covid cases has led South Korea, among other nations, to impose restrictions on travellers …
The border that divides Hong Kong and mainland China reopened on January 8, 2023, for the first time in 3 years. Travellers are now being allowed to cross freely without having to undergo quarantines after mainland authorities dropped the nation’s zero-Covid policy. A daily quota of 60,000 people is reserved for tra…
Thousands of North Koreans have joined a mass rally described as showing for the new year policy goals outlined by the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, including increasing nuclear capabilities and improving national infrastructure. Workers, students and party members were gathered at the May Day Stadium in the capit…
The first international passenger flights to and from Beijing took place on January 8, 2023, as China reopened its borders following a central government decision to drop the nation’s zero-Covid policy and the tight restrictions imposed with it.
A month after mainland China ditched its zero-Covid policy, hospitals have been seeing a surge in the number of Covid-19 patients. The Post visited two hospitals in Shanghai, where emergency rooms were swamped with patients, many of them elderly.
Chinese pharmaceutical companies are trying to keep up with the surge in demand for fever-reducing medicine, as the country grapples with a spike in Covid-19 cases after Beijing ended its strict zero-Covid policy late 2022. Officials say production of paracetamol and ibuprofen has risen to four times as much as earl…
Holding qualifications in political science and law, Bakhshi, who only gave her last name for security reasons, used to teach at two private universities in Afghanistan. The future of Afghan women like her has been thwarted by the Taliban’s restrictions on women attending universities or working for non-governmental…
From Xi Jinping securing a record third term as president, to the country signalling a shift away from its zero-Covid policy, 2022 was a momentous year for China. Here is a look back at the biggest news events of the year that put the nation in the global spotlight.
Protests have been staged across the Afghan capital Kabul, following the Taliban move to indefinitely ban women from attending universities. Since the December 20, 2022, decision was announced, reports have emerged of arrests at rallies and a violent crackdown on protesters by Taliban authorities. The university ban…
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A hospital in northern China’s Tianjin was overwhelmed with patients after the country shifted away from its strict zero-Covid policy, towards a treatment-based approach.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have banned women from public and private universities across the country, reneging on a promise to implement more liberal governance when they returned to power in 2021 compared with the last time they were in power. The December 20, 2022, announcement has drawn strong condemnations fro…
China reported two Covid-related deaths on December 19, 2022, the first official fatalities since the government shifted away from its zero-Covid policy and eased pandemic restrictions earlier in the month. Health experts said the official tally was lower than expected. But the country is reportedly grappling with a…
Should Japanese teachers be willing to die for their job? In one of his last diary entries, Japanese teacher Yoshio Kudo lamented workdays that started early and sometimes lasted until nearly midnight. Two months later, he suffered karoshi, a Japanese term that means death from overwork. Kudo's taxing schedule was f…
Schools in Shanghai started to move online on December 19, 2022, at the request of the city’s education bureau amid a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases. China eased most of its stringent Covid restrictions in early December, following unprecedented public protests that took place in major cities. The disease has si…
China has signalled an official shift away from its strict zero-Covid policy towards a treatment-based approach to deal with the pandemic. The announcement from top health officials comes amid a surge in coronavirus infections after restrictions, including mass testing and snap lockdowns, were lifted on December 7, …
A Chinese-born painter based in northern Italy is behind one of the most popular Twitter accounts sharing information about the recent wave of protests against Covid-19 restrictions in China. Since the rare demonstrations erupted across China in late November, the artist identified only as “Teacher Li” has skirted C…
Hong Kong scrapped the use of its “Leave Home Safe” app and removed most of its Covid restrictions for incoming travellers, starting on December 14, 2022. Previously, all arriving passengers had been subject to pandemic curbs, which prevented them from entering venues like restaurants, gyms and beauty parlours durin…
A team of 13 elephants squared off with high school students during a football match in the Thai city of Ayutthaya on December 13, 2022. Painted in the colours of the flags of Fifa World Cup qualifying teams, the elephant players entertained onlookers with their skills. Organisers hoped the match would encourage pup…
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Cracks in China’s housing market have been widening since some of the nation’s major developers collapsed, pushed by the government’s “three red lines” policy to define borrowing thresholds. Over the past year, there have been unprecedented plunges in home sales and price figures. Heading into 2023, will the real es…
China has lifted most of its strict measures to control the spread of Covid-19. Public places across the country no longer require a negative test for entry, with the exception of schools, hospitals, elderly homes and some other locations. But public reaction to the easing of restrictions has been mixed. While some …
China announced new measures to further ease its Covid restrictions on December 7, 2022, including allowing those with mild symptoms to quarantine at home and ramping up vaccination among the elderly. Ahead of the official announcement, some local governments had started to relax some of their restrictions following…
In Indonesia, a boarding school for transgender women offers a rare oasis of acceptance and a safe space to pray. On December 6, Indonesia passed legislation to outlaw extramarital sex. The ban would threaten members of the LGBTQ community who are barred from marriage.
European Council President Charles Michel met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on December 1, 2022. The three-hour discussion reportedly covered a wide range of issues including the Russia-Ukraine war, China’s zero-Covid policy and alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on November 30, 2022, that Canada stands with Chinese demonstrators protesting against the country’s zero-Covid policy. China-Canada relations have worsened since the arrest in Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018 and the subsequent detention of two Canadians in…
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Shanghai Disney Resort has closed the US$5.5 billion Shanghai Disneyland amusement park, just four days after its reopening because of a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the city. It is the third time in 2022 that Shanghai Disneyland has been shut because of China’s zero-Covid policy.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called for Britain’s foreign policy approach to China to “evolve” and declared the “golden era” between the two countries to be over. During his remarks at the annual Lord Mayor’s banquet in London on November 28, 2022, Sunak also said China posed a “systemic challenge” to Brit…
Protests have been organised in several cities around the world in support of rare public displays of frustration and anger in Chinese cities where people took to the streets to call for an end to the country’s zero-Covid policy. The protests were triggered by a November 24, 2022, deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital …
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Dozens of people gathered in Hong Kong’s central business district on November 28, 2022, to mourn victims of a deadly fire in Xinjiang that sparked protests in mainland China against Beijing’s stringent zero-Covid policy. Among them was activist Alexandra Wong Fung-yiu, nicknamed “Grandma Wong”, who reportedly had h…
Protests against China’s zero-Covid policy have spread across the country following a deadly fire in the western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on November 24, 2022. Many demonstrators voiced anger about reports that a Covid lockdown in the regional capital Urumqi delayed rescuers and prevented victims from escapi…
About 150 people gathered at New York City’s Washington Square Park on November 27, 2022, to show solidarity with the victims of a deadly fire in Urumqi in China’s western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The tragedy has prompted protests in several Chinese cities by people who are frustrated about Beijing’s zero-C…
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Foxconn has offered to pay newly hired workers to leave its factory in a bid to end protests that broke out on November 22, 2022, in its Zhengzhou campus. The unrest at the world’s largest iPhone factory is now expected to lead to further delays in the delivery of Apple’s flagship product, the iPhone 14, through the…
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Hundreds of children in Indonesia’s populous West Java province are being treated in hospital for injuries sustained during a devastating November 21, 2022, earthquake. The nation’s disaster officials said the childhood toll was high because schools were open when the 5.6-magnitude quake struck. The official death s…
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The number of coronavirus cases in Beijing hit a new daily record of 1,438 on November 21, 2022, prompting calls for more residents of the Chinese capital to stay home. The city also reported two new deaths attributed to Covid-19, following another three over the weekend, which were the first reported in China since…
Beijing has been hit hard by its biggest Covid outbreak since the pandemic began, with businesses and schools disrupted. The capital's most populous district has urged residents to work from home to stop the spread of the virus, with all office buildings in Beijing’s central business district ordered shut from Novem…
Thai police fired rubber bullets and tear gas during clashes with about 300 protesters as the Apec summit began in Bangkok on November 18. Ten protesters were arrested. The crowd, consisting of young pro-democracy activists and rural farmers, rallied against Thailand’s controversial growth policy, Bio Circular Green…
Myanmar’s military government announced on November 17, 2022, that it was releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty to mark the country’s National Victory Day. A total of 5,774 prisoners were released, Myanmar’s st…
Seoul's Education Ministry said 508,030 students sat the annual nine-hour Suneung college entrance exam in 2022, the results of which are crucial for securing spots at top universities. The enormous pressure on students in South Korea's ultra-competitive education system has been blamed for teenage depression and su…
New air-conditioning technology will be used to cool World Cup football players and thousands of fans in Qatar’s desert climates. Saud Ghani, a professor at Qatar University nicknamed “Dr Cool”, developed the air circulation system that will keep a cool ‘bubble’ of air in the stadium.
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Covid-19 infections have been rising sharply in China despite increasingly intense controls, testing and lockdowns. More than 8,000 cases were reported in the country on November 9, 2022. The southern city of Guangzhou saw daily case numbers increase from double digit figures in late October to over 2,000 within two…
The 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, kicked off on November 8, 2022, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. Aircraft navigated by the country’s People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force could be seen in the display, including four domestically developed J-20 fighter jets. But some…
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