China sends a Wuhan-style mobile virus lab to Beijing to help screen up to 1,000 swab samples a day

China has dispatched a mobile P3 virus lab to help ramp up the coronavirus mass-testing in Beijing after a fresh COVID-19 outbreak ravaged the capital city. The country’s health authority sent the remote laboratory, along with a team of 14 medical workers, to a virus-hit district in Beijing this morning, state media reported. The mobile … Read more

Beijing battles coronavirus second wave as two thirds of flights are cancelled

More than 1,000 flights have been cancelled to and from Beijing today while 27 neighbourhoods are in lockdown and schools are closed as China battles an alarming new coronavirus outbreak.   A total of 1,255 flights have been scrapped at Beijing’s Capital and Daxing Airports, cutting out nearly two-thirds of their usual schedule as China imposes … Read more

Indians demand revenge on China after soldiers fought to the death with nail-studded clubs

Indians are demanding revenge on China after soldiers of the nuclear-armed nations brawled with nail-studded clubs leaving up to 70 dead at the disputed Himalayan border.  India’s government was silent today on the fallout from clashes with China’s People’s Liberation Army that the Indian army said claimed 20 soldiers’ lives on Monday night.  China reported … Read more

Three Indian soldiers are killed in brutal hand-to-hand fighting with Chinese soldiers at border

Three Indian soldiers are killed in brutal hand-to-hand fighting with Chinese soldiers at border point in Kashmir amid increasingly bitter clashes between nuclear powers The ‘violent faceoff’ took place in Galwan valley in Ladakh region on Monday India said there were ‘casualties on both sides’ but China didn’t comment Statement said loss of life included … Read more

Remains of a Bronze Age settlement dating back 3,500 years are unearthed on the ancient Silk Road

Remains of a Bronze Age settlement dating back 3,500 years are unearthed on the ancient Silk Road by Chinese archaeologists Ruins of two large buildings and three smaller buildings were discovered Experts also excavated a large number of ceramic pieces and animal bones Traces of Bronze Age living were found under a group of 2,000-year-old … Read more

Boris Johnson scraps standalone foreign aid department to ‘maximise British influence’ abroad

Boris Johnson announced the government department responsible for foreign aid is to be scrapped in a dramatic overhaul of the way Britain operates overseas. The department for International Development (Dfid) will be merged into the Foreign Office to create the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in a bid to ‘maximise British influence’ overseas, he told … Read more

World’s biggest container vessel HMM Algeciras arrives in the UK for the first time 

That’s a lot of ship! World’s biggest container vessel HMM Algeciras – measuring 1,312ft in length and 200ft in width – arrives in the UK for the first time after port authority spent SIX MONTHS months preparing for its arrival HMM Algeciras arrived in Essex from China via South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium … Read more

Trade in Lion bones for Chinese ‘medicines’ could spark new pandemic

The sickening trade in the bones of butchered lions for use in Chinese ‘medicines’, wines and jewellery could spark another catastrophic health crisis, experts have warned.  An astonishing 333 farms in South Africa are breeding thousands of lions either to be shot by hunters in fenced enclosures or slaughtered for their bones, according to a … Read more

Trade in Lion bones for Chinese ‘medicines’ could spark new pandemic

The sickening trade in the bones of butchered lions for use in Chinese ‘medicines’, wines and jewellery could spark another catastrophic health crisis, experts have warned.  An astonishing 333 farms in South Africa are breeding thousands of lions either to be shot by hunters in fenced enclosures or slaughtered for their bones, according to a … Read more