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In 2019, the world’s first Covid case was detected in Wuhan. This month China abruptly shifted away from efforts to eliminate the virus
Across China Covid testing stations are being dismantled. Barricades have been brought down. A tracking app used to monitor the health the country’s 1.4 billion people has been switched off. People have been given freedoms they haven’t known for years.
At the same time, queues have formed outside hospitals and some medicines are in short supply. Infections, along with worry and confusion over how to live with the once-feared virus, are spreading.

Located at 93 North King Street near Pig and The Lady restaurant, the 17,300-square-foot building was most recently occupied by American Savings Bank, which moved out of the building in ...

US officials said they gained sufficient access to audit documents on companies in China and Hong Kong for the first time, a breakthrough that removes the acute threat of delisting for about 200 ...

Finance secretary says starter, basic and intermediate rates of income will stay the same. This live blog is closed

The Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to 3.5%, the highest since October 2008, my colleague Graeme Wearden reports on his business live blog.
Yesterday James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, told MPs i that the government had given the Chinese a week for six of their diplomats to comply with a request to be interviewed by the police over the beating-up of a pro Hong Kong democracy campaigner at the consulate in Manchester. He said the diplomats had all avoided police action because they have either left the country, or are about to do so.
The consul general and five others brutalised a refugee on British soil and rather than being expelled or prosecuted, they’ve been allowed to slip off, flee like cowards, which makes their guilt even more evident.
By giving a week’s notice to them, which goes so far beyond the Vienna convention, we have essentially denied Bob Chan any sense of justice.

Airbnb travelers who are Black are less likely to have their bookings approved by hosts than white travelers, the company said in a diversity report Tuesday. Read more about the findings, here.

A US watchdog said Thursday that it secured "complete access" to inspect Chinese audit firms for the first time, temporarily easing delisting fears for many Chinese companies on American stock ...

The Biden administration on Thursday stepped up its efforts to impede China’s development of advanced semiconductors, restricting another 36 companies and organizations from getting access to US ...

Purdue University Northwest's chancellor this week apologized for making what he says was an "offensive and insensitive" comment during a winter commencement ceremony in which he mocked East Asian ...

The US Commerce Department on Thursday blacklisted 36 Chinese companies including top producers of advanced computer chips, severely restricting their access to American technology.

The US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board examined auditing paperwork in Hong Kong but the staff hasn't yet been able to access mainland China.

The US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board examined auditing paperwork in Hong Kong but the staff hasn't yet been able to access mainland China.

The British government had asked the Chinese officials to waive their diplomatic immunity and allow an investigation into how a pro-democracy protester was beaten.