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Authorities in the Chinese city of Guangzhou have had to apologise for breaking into the houses of those who had been taken to quarantine in a hotel.

India is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous country by next year, according to a United Nations report.

A 45-year-old Chinese man has sought a divorce from his wife of 16 years.

A disturbing video of a school teacher brutally hitting a ninth-grade student after the latter dozed off in classroom has gone viral on social media.

China's zero-Covid policy and the subsequent lockdowns have made survival difficult for foreign companies.

A study published in The Lancet has revealed that pollution caused more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, the highest number reported from any country.

A China Eastern Airlines aircraft that crashed in the southern Guangxi province of China in March this year was reportedly made to crash intentionally, according to US media reports

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba lost billions of dollars after the authorities detained a person who shares his surname with the company's founder Jack Ma.

As many as nine people have been arrested following the collapse of a building in the Chinese city of Changsha where several people are still trapped.

The residents of Beijing were seen flocking to markets on Monday to stock up on food and other essential supplies in case the Chinese government imposes a Shanghai-style lockdown.

A Taiwanese news channel called CTS had to issue an apology after it accidentally aired a fictional news alert stating that Chinese forces had launched an attack on the country.

A group of Chinese astronauts returned safely to Earth last week after spending six months on board Tiangong space station. The crew had taken off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert in October last year.

The US State Department has asked non-emergency US government workers to leave the consulate in Shanghai as the city continues to see a surge in Covid-19 cases.

China has received backlash from Australian authorities after a court in Beijing carried out a trial of journalist Cheng Lei's case behind closed doors, under heavy security on Thursday.

A 59-year-old Chinese man was stopped by the police from test-flying his home-made helicopter. The man had managed to build the helicopter using a boat engine.

China has had to shut down the Disney resort located in its financial hub of Shanghai as the country faces its worst Covid-19 outbreak in the last two years.

The economic crisis faced by Sri Lanka is only worsening with each passing day, the country has now cancelled school exams for millions of students as it has run out of printing paper and ink

Anthropologist Dr Jesse Casana says that he may have discovered an ancient city and believes that it could be older than the Egyptian pyramids. The area is called Tell Brak and the discovery has been made by analysing images taken by an old spy satellite.

We have heard of humans being put on special diet regimes to help them lose weight, but a zoo in Taiwan's Taipei has had to put two pandas on a strict diet because they have become obese.

It has been more than a month since astrophysicists have been predicting that a rocket is on a collision course with the moon. Earlier, it was thought be SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster, but recent reports have claimed that it may not be some other rocket.

The WTA has decided to suspend all tournaments in China amid concerns for the safety of Peng Shuai. The Chinese tennis star has not been seen in public since making sexual allegations against former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli.

Foreign visitors to China will have to undergo an anal swab test or give a stool sample to test for COVID-19.

Japanese visitors in Beijing confirmed with the embassy that they were subjected to the mandatory anal swab for COVID-19 testing.

The new COVID-19 test involves a cotton-tipped swab, which is inserted about one to two inches into the rectum.

The 1,662 employees of the ice cream manufacturer in eastern China were immediately quarantined and underwent coronavirus testing.

The soldiers will allow for location tracking, connectivity with other troops, and drugs that will help keep soldiers awake for long periods.

The latest burger creation features two extra-thick slices of Spam topped with Oreo crumbs and the brand's classic burger sauce

Foxconn has already announced that it will be setting up a subsidiary called FuKang Technology Co Ltd, reportedly meant for the expansion in Vietnam.

This was a punishment practised during the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, but was never approved by Chinese laws

First time violators receive a warning, while those caught for the second time will be fined. Third time offenders will have their pets confiscated and killed by local authorities