News about China

KUALA LUMPUR (May 28): Ho Hup Construction Company Bhd has bagged two contracts worth a combined RM102.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 28): A Berjaya Land Bhd (BLand) unit has won an arbitration award of 947.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 18): China is seeing “signs of gradual recovery in the property market” as Beijing eases Covid-19 “restrictions on movement”, Reuters reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 13): Six new Covid-19 cases stemming from local transmissions in Wuhan, China just two weeks after the city discharged its last patients from hospital are worrying health authorities, reported the Straits Times (ST) To prevent a second wave of infections, the authorities have “ordered” all of the city’s 11 million residents to “undergo nucleic acid testing over a 10-day period”, said the report.

WUHAN (May 12): An official has been sacked in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province after the city recently reported six new confirmed Covid-19 cases, local authorities said yesterday according to Xinhua and Asia News Network.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): US President Donald Trump (pictured) has described the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on his country, BBC reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 8): Researchers in China have revealed that the novel coronavirus causing the Covid-19 disease has been found in the semen of infected men, reported the UK-based The Guardian newspaper yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November, according to a Reuters article today.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 27): Singapore now has Asia’s highest number of Covid-19 cases after China and India, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 25): China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on leader Kim Jong-Un, according to a report by Reuters quoting three people familiar with the situation.