Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic Covid-19 cases yesterday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its “dynamic clearance” approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

The return to Earth of three astronauts yesterday after six months at China’s new space station marks a landmark step in the country’s space ambitions, ending its longest crewed mission ever.

China must pay a greater price for backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a senior United States senator said yesterday, during a trip to Taiwan in which American lawmakers vowed that Washington would not abandon the island.

Taiwan’s military published a handbook yesterday advising civilians on how to prepare for a potential Chinese invasion, including where to find bomb shelters and how to stockpile emergency supplies.

China blasted the United States for making “groundless accusations” about its Covid-19 policy, after surging cases in Shanghai prompted the American consulate to let some staff leave the locked-down megacity.

Shanghai yesterday announced a record 21,000 new cases and a third consecutive day of Covid testing as a lockdown of its 26 million people showed no sign of easing and other Chinese cities tightened curbs - even in places with no recent infections.

China reported more than 20,000 Covid-19 cases yesterday, the highest daily tally given since the start of the pandemic as millions in locked-down Shanghai

Shanghai yesterday ordered its 26 million residents to undergo two more rounds of tests for Covid-19 as public anger grows over how authorities in China’s most populous city are tackling a record coronavirus surge.

Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on March 26.

Beijing and Moscow advanced a vision of a new world order yesterday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made his first visit to key ally China since the invasion of Ukraine.

Shanghai yesterday recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases as panic-buying in the Chinese city of about 25 million stripped supermarket shelves bare.

The second black box has been recovered from last week’s deadly China Eastern plane crash, officials said yesterday, and could help solve the mystery of the jet’s breakneck descent.

Recovery crews on Sunday found the second black box - the flight data recorder - from the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed into a mountainside in southern China, state media reported.

China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in New Delhi tonight on a previously unannounced visit, the first to India by a senior leader from Beijing since the armies of the two countries were involved in a clash in eastern Ladakh in May, 2020.

Chinese searchers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) plane that crashed this week in forest-clad mountains with 132 people onboard, the aviation regulator said.

The search for clues into why a plane made an inexplicable dive and crashed into a mountain in southern China was suspended Wednesday as rain slicked the debris field and filled the red-dirt gash formed by the plane’s fiery impact.

Rescuers combed heavily forested mountain slopes in southern China yesterday, using shovels and torches in their hunt for victims and flight recorders from a China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS jet that crashed with 132 people on board. 

There were no foreigners among the 132 people on board in China Eastern flight that crashed in mountains in southern China on Monday.

Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) passenger jet that crashed a day earlier in the mountains of southern Guangxi.