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Pompeo condemns China’s Xinjiang crackdown during Central Asia tour

3:24 pm February 2, 2020

Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on countries to offer asylum to ethnic minorities fleeing China’s troubled Xinjiang region during a visit Sunday to oil-rich Kazakhstan — a country that borders the region. “We ask simply for them to provide safe refuge and asylum for those seeking to flee China,” Pompeo said […]

Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

Fears of new virus trigger anti-China sentiment worldwide

3:15 pm February 2, 2020

Seoul: A scary new virus from China has spread around the world. So has rising anti-Chinese sentiment, calls for a full travel ban on Chinese visitors and indignities for Chinese and other Asians. Restaurants in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam have refused to accept Chinese customers. Indonesians marched near a hotel and called […]

Vietnam says suspending all China flights over coronavirus

7:34 pm February 1, 2020

Hanoi: Vietnam has suspended all China flights as part of “strengthening measures” against the coronavirus outbreak, its civil aviation authority said in a statement on Saturday. The step applies to all airlines “which have routes between Vietnam and China” and also includes Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, it added in the directive which was posted […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

China ambassador says no need for ‘unnecessary panic’ over virus

9:07 pm January 31, 2020

Geneva: China is decisively working to control the deadly outbreak of the novel coronavirus, its ambassador in Geneva said Friday, insisting there was no need for countries impose “excessive measures” like border closures. “There is no need for unnecessary panic, and no need for excessive measures,” Ambassador Chen Xu told reporters in Geneva.

Coronavirus: China reports 4 deaths, 31 new cases

Chinese official says slow response made virus epidemic worse

9:05 pm January 31, 2020

Beijing: China’s delayed response to the discovery of a new coronavirus infection worsened the epidemic, the most senior official from the city at the centre of the outbreak said Friday. “Right now I’m in a state of guilt, remorse and self-reproach,” said Ma Guoqiang, the municipal Communist Party secretary for Wuhan. “If strict control measures […]