China’s bat woman says lab leak suspicions are ‘constantly pouring filth on an innocent scientist’ and claims NO ONE got sick at her institute… but admits she can’t provide any evidence Shi Zhengli, also known as the Bat Woman, has been accused of conducting experiments which alter coronavirus genes at
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Massive 18-ton chunk of China’s Long March space rocket is set to crash back to Earth TONIGHT amid fears it could land on populated areas China’s Long March space rocked is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry Beijing has downplayed fears and said there is a very low risk of
Read moreLondon: Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton says the way China is treating Australia is a "sign of things to come" for the rest of the world. Bolton was speaking to the Henry Jackson Society, a Westminster think tank which takes a hawkish line on China, on Thursday
Read moreChina’s wealthy elite are forced to hire teams of underlings to organise all the purchases they’ve made during coronavirus economic boom – creating a whole new industry Business is booming for thousands of professional ‘home organisers’ in China They charge their clients $2,000 or more to arrange their luxury wardrobes
Read moreThe Chinese government has been expanding its detention centres in the remote Xinjiang region, new satellite imagery reveals, despite Beijing’s claims that all detainees have "graduated" from the "re-education camps". Research by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute also reveals the existence of newly built high-security detention centres, along with the
Read moreEarth and the Moon appear as small crescents in the empty darkness of space in surreal photo captured by China’s Mars probe en route to the Red Planet China’s first ever Mars lander has captured a photo of the Earth and the Moon It’s been released a day before NASA’s
Read moreGravity-defying glass observation deck jutting out from China’s ‘horizontal skyscraper’ at 820ft high will welcome visitors (but would you dare to stand on it?) The vertigo-inducing platform is part of an impressive corridor which spans across the top of four towers It overlooks the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in mega-city
Read moreRussia surpasses China’s official number of coronavirus cases after registering 6,200 new infections, bringing total to 87,147 Russia reported total of 87,147 cases on Monday, higher than China’s official toll Actual number of infections in both countries is thought to be much higher Russia had been reporting comparatively low Covid-19 numbers
Read moreThe head of the Chinese Communist Party’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention defended his country’s response to the pandemic, saying he never claimed there was no human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus. “No, I never said [there’s] no human-to-human transmission in the public – never, ever,” George Gao Fu told
Read moreBeijing/Wuhan: China on Saturday mourned the thousands of "martyrs" who have died in the new coronavirus outbreak, flying the national flag at half mast throughout the country and suspending all forms of entertainment. The day of mourning coincided with the start of the annual Qingming tomb-sweeping festival, when millions of
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