China

A Chinese airliner with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, state media has reported.

Nearly 30 million people were under lockdown across China on Tuesday, as surging virus cases returned mass tests and hazmat suited health officials to city streets on a scale not seen since the start of the pandemic.

China will not join in sanctions on Russia that have been led by the West, the country’s banking regulator said on Wednesday, adding that he believed the impact of the measures on China would be limited.

China has reported its first case of the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant, state media said Monday.

The United States on Monday added Russia to a blacklist of countries singled out for ‘egregious violations of religious freedom’, the State Department said.

The United States has warned China over its pressure on Taiwan, the State Department said Saturday as the two powers gird for a hotly awaited summit.

East Turkistan Independence Day

Bangladesh on Friday observed ‘East Turkistan Independence Day’ with a series of events across the country where activists highlighted Chinese atrocities on minorities, mainly Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province.

A consignment of another two lakh doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine reached Dhaka from China on Tuesday.

Another consignment of five million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Dhaka.

China is planning to mix COVID-19 vaccines as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy, reports Reuters citing a top disease control official of the country.

Four people were killed when a man detonated a homemade bomb in a village government office in southern China, authorities said, in a rare act of violent social protest.

Security forces killed at least 22 anti-coup protesters in the poor, industrial Hlaingthaya suburb of Myanmar’s main city on Sunday after Chinese-financed factories were set ablaze there, reports Reuters citing an advocacy group.