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China rattles foreign firms again with arrests, Foxconn probe

BEIJING: Chinese authorities are again shaking the confidence of foreign companies in the country with a series of arrests across industries and an investigation into Foxconn Technology Group, Apple Inc’s most important partner and one of the largest employers in China.

The Times of India

Apple supplier giving factory staff $424 bonus if they can stick it out for 90 days ahead of new iPhone launch

Third-party manufacturer Foxconn is hoping to avoid any production problems ahead of the crucial Christmas shopping season following last year’s COVID difficulties.

Fortune

Surge in strikes at Chinese factories after Covid rules end

Action by workers has trebled this year as the country emerges from its draconian coronavirus measures

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Shanghai Composite Index Fell 0.68% on Wednesday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.84%

Caixin Global

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.

Al Jazeera

Ignoring experts, China's sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

Health experts proposed detailed plans for a gradual end to anti-virus controls, but the Chinese government rebuffed them and dropped restrictions in December with no preparations to cope with the chaotic aftermath, The Associated Press has found

The Independent UK

Ignoring experts, China's sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

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Chinese city backs return of lockdowns for flu outbreaks

A Chinese city may return to Covid-like lockdown measures as part of its plan to contain an outbreak of influenza cases.

Evening Standard

Want to buy a repurposed Covid testing booth? In China, you can

Thousands of booths where people once took Covid-19 tests fell out of use when the Chinese government ended its Zero-Covid policy in December 2022. Since then, some of these booths have been put up for sale online in the hope that someone will give them a second life.

France 24

Shanghai Composite Index Fell 0.3% on Friday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.59%

Caixin Global

China’s COVID chaos is showing up in corporate earnings

Both Apple and Starbucks blamed China's COVID lockdowns and record case surge for disappointing earnings.

Fortune

‘It was all for nothing’: Chinese count cost of Xi’s snap decision to let Covid rip

After three years of lockdowns, the country was ill prepared for its abrupt ‘freedom’. Now, with some estimating 1m deaths, public anger is growing

The Guardian - UK

'Not afraid of the virus': Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on

WUHAN, China: Residents of China's Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus.

Bangkok Post

Coronavirus: China masses take Covid fight into own hands as Xi Jinping sits back

BEIJING: Left to fend for herself after China abruptly ended the world’s strictest Covid restrictions, 31-year-old Share Xue and her daughter found themselves with 40C (104F) fevers and an expired bottle of Motrin.

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Japanese, U.S. companies rushing to pull production out of China

Companies from Japan, the United States and other nations are accelerating their moves to shift production out of China, to lessen the risk of disruption in their supply chains due to abrupt changes in Chinese government policy and turmoil following the spread of COVID-19.

The Times of India

Coronavirus: China’s hospital Covid death data just a tenth of total toll

BEIJING: The nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts said.

Bangkok Post

'Total mess' in China's rural east as Covid wave hits hard

BENGBU (CHINA): Exhausted doctors working overtime, tests and treatments nowhere to be found, and under-resourced clinics inundated with patients -- in Anhui, one of east China's poorest provinces, Covid-19 hit hard.

Reuters

China imposes transit curbs for S.Korea, Japan; WHO voices concern over data

The World Health Organisation said a lack of data was making it challenging to help China manage the risks of a COVID-19 surge over the Lunar New Year holiday, as the world's second-largest economy reopens after three years of isolation.

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Evening Standard

Chinese official says ‘90% of province infected with Covid’ as test workers clash with police

Protests outside an antigen test factory erupted over the layoff of several workers, according to reports

Caixin Global

Shanghai Composite Index Rose 0.58% on Monday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 0.72%

Reuters

Protesters clash with police at COVID antigen kit maker factory in China, videos show

Protesters clashed with police in central China during a demonstration on Saturday by hundreds of people at a factory producing COVID-19 antigen kits, several videos posted to social media showed.

Reuters

China COVID data shows no new variant but under-reports deaths, WHO says

Data from China shows that no new coronavirus variant has been found there, but also that the country under-represents how many people have died in a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Wednesday.

Fortune

Chinese cities may be passing peak COVID infections

According to official data, both manufacturing and services activity have contracted for three straight months.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China State Media Plays Down Severity of COVID Wave before WHO Meeting

State media in China played down the severity of its surge of COVID-19 infections ahead of an expected briefing on Tuesday by its scientists to the World Health Organization, which is hoping for detailed data on the evolution of the virus. China's abrupt U-turn on COVID controls on Dec. 7,…

Bangkok Post

Subway traffic rise hints at Covid peak in China

Nearly a dozen major Chinese cities are reporting a recovery in subway use, a sign that an “exit wave” of Covid infections may have peaked in some urban areas.

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