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Wrestling | Sunil Kumar wins India's first Greco Roman medal at Asian Games since 2010

India had won two medals in Greco Roman in the Guangzhou edition

The Hindu

Trial of Chinese #MeToo journalist and labour rights activist begins in secret

Huang Xueqin, a feminist who was due to move to UK, and Wang Jianbing charged with ‘inciting subversion of state power’

The Guardian - UK

Guangzhou Mulls Housing Vouchers to Revive Home Market

Families affected by urban renovation projects would get transferable vouchers they could use to buy new housing

Caixin Global

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Toyota-GAC Joint Venture Lays Off 1,000 Workers In China

The Toyota-GAC joint venture will terminate the contracts of 1,000 dispatch workers in Guangzhou, China.

InsideEVs

Chefs without borders

Thai and Chinese people share a great similarity in their gastronomic attitude. Whether it was in the olden days or now, we treat food always with high regard and our kitchens are almost identical. Life recently sat with two chefs from mainland China who love Thailand so much they wish…

Bangkok Post

Shein invited influencers on an all-expenses-paid trip. Here's why people are livid

After a recent trip to some of the company's facilities in Guangzhou, China, young tastemakers fawned over happy employees and sweat-free working conditions. Now the influencers are facing a backlash.

WEKU

Shein 'haul' videos were already tanking, then came the factory tour

The “haul” influencers cited the company’s narrow focus on slim white models.

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Influencers face backlash for promoting Shein factory during PR trip in China

The influencers visited the fast fashion retailer’s ‘innovation factory’ in Guangzhou

The Independent UK

Influencers called out after promoting Shein factory in China

The influencers visited the fast fashion retailer’s ‘innovation factory’ in Guangzhou

The Independent UK

Why presenter Harry Harding believed he was being groomed to spy on Australia

Overnight pop sensation Harry "Hazza" Harding held a prestigious job with China's state media. He now believes he was being groomed for espionage.

ABC News

Diplomats turned away from trial of prominent activist in China

Diplomats from several countries including the United States said on Thursday they were prevented from attending the subversion trial of rights activist and lawyer Guo Feixiong in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

Reuters

New species of Viola found in China's Guangdong

GUANGZHOU: Chinese researchers have discovered a new Viola species, V. heyuanensis in south China's Guangdong Province. The findings were published in the international academic journal Nordic Journal of Botany on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Durians imports via south China port to exceed 160,000 tonnes

GUANGZHOU: More than 160,000 tonnes of durians are expected to enter the Chinese market through the Nansha Port in 2023, according to the Guangzhou Port Group.

Bangkok Post

After Ukraine, Taiwan? Pacific spike in tensions

Surely Ukraine is not the prelude. As Emmanuel Macron was departing Guangzhou, Chinese warships were cruising towards the Taiwan strait. We ask about the three-day show of force staged as a show of displeasure with last week's visit by the Taiwanese president to California, and about the US Navy destroyer…

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Reuters

At elite Chinese university, Macron hails 'critical thinking'

French President Emmanuel Macron was given a rock star welcome by Chinese students at an elite university in Guangzhou where he took questions and hailed critical thinking in a country with tight media and political control.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Macron in Guangzhou on Final Day of China Trip

French President Emmanuel Macron meets students and dines with Xi Jinping in the southern city of Guangzhou Friday, wrapping up a three-day state visit to China that has been dominated by discussions of how Beijing could mediate the Ukraine conflict. The French president, who arrived in the capital on Wednesday,…

Caixin Global

China’s Spring Canton Fair Resumes In-Person Expo

Tens of thousands of buyers from 203 countries sign up for resumption of Guangzhou trading event after three years of pandemic restrictions

Al Jazeera

China’s huge quarantine camps standing months after ‘zero COVID’

Satellite imagery shows facilities are still intact nearly four months after end of Beijing’s draconian pandemic policy.

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Daily Mirror

Guangzhou crash: 5 dead after car ploughs into crowd before driver throws money in air

The crash, which was filmed and shared widely on social media, has sparked outrage with people accusing the man of deliberately targeting people in Guangzhou, China

Al Jazeera

Crematoriums in China struggle as COVID spreads

Cities across China also scrambling to install hospital beds and build fever clinics amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak.

Caixin Global

Weekly Must-Read: Covid Chaos at China’s Hospitals as Stringent Control Policy Eases

Health care centers from Guangzhou to Shijiazhuang and Beijing are slammed amid surging infections and severe shortages of medical workers

Caixin Global

Guangzhou Closes Most of Its Makeshift Covid Hospitals

The remaining facilities will be upgraded and used primarily for treating Covid patients without severe symptoms, a local medical worker says

The Independent UK

Police detain 4 in Guangzhou after COVID protests

Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained at least four people for more than a week after they attended protests against COVID-19 restrictions in late November, according to activists, family members and friends of the detained

Evening Standard

Chinese cities ease some Covid rules following anti-lockdown protests

Local authorities in Guangzhou announced that lockdowns would be lifted in seven districts of the southern city after demonstrations earlier this week

Caixin Global

Guangzhou Pushes Life Toward Normalcy After Easing Covid Curbs

Southern China metropolis reopens shops and restaurants, resumes public transit and dismantles barriers around communities

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