It will be up to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) if a special election will be conducted in Shanghai, China after overseas absentee voting (OAV) there was suspended due to strict lockdown to counter the spread of Covid-19. Volunteers deliver parcels to a residential community under closed-off...
BEIJING, China -- Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction. The commercial building in Changsha city caved in last Friday, prompting over six days of...
BEIJING, China -- Chinese authorities raised the number of people confirmed dead in a building collapse to 26 on Thursday, nearly a week after the block containing apartments, a hotel and a cinema caved in and emergency workers launched a massive rescue operation to pull out survivors. The...
China Banking Corporation (China Bank) reported a 37 percent jump in net profits to P4.9 billion in the first quarter of 2022 from P3.6 billion in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the bank said the improved profitability, driven by sustained core business...
Rescuers reenforce a building next to the collapsed self-constructed residential building in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, April 30, 2022. Five people have been rescued, and 23 others remain trapped after a self-constructed residential building collapsed Friday in central China's Hunan...
This aerial photograph taken on April 29, 2022 shows rescuers working after a six-storey building collapsed in Changsha, in China's central Hunan province. CNS / AFP BEIJING, China -- Dozens of people were trapped under a building which collapsed in central China, officials said Saturday, as...
People scan a code to show a negative Covid-19 test result done within 48 hours before entering Nanluoguxiang, a commercial street in Beijing on April 30, 2022. Beijing residents will need clear Covid tests to enter public spaces, officials said on April 30, announcing fresh virus controls at the...
BEIJING, China -- The Chinese megacity of Guangzhou on Thursday cancelled hundreds of flights and began testing 5.6 million people over one suspected Covid case, part of an escalating battle across the country to extinguish the virus. China is facing its worst outbreak since the peak of the first...
BEIJING, China – China's Xi Jinping has called for an "all-out" campaign to build infrastructure, according to state media, marking the latest attempt by leaders to boost growth in the Covid-battered economy. Despite struggling to defeat the country's worst outbreak in two years, the...
Filipinos in Shanghai infected by the coronavirus and those affected by the lockdown amid the surge of new cases are being assisted by the Chinese government, the Philippine Consulate in China said Wednesday, April 27. Volunteers deliver parcels to a residential community under closed-off...
Overseas absentee voting (OAV) has yet to begin in Shanghai, China due to the surge of Covid-19 cases in the foreign city, the Philippines' Consul General there said. Volunteers deliver parcels to a residential community under closed-off management in Minhang District of east China's Shanghai,...
BEIJING, China -- China has confirmed the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu, but health authorities say there is a low risk of widespread transmission among people. H3N8 is known to have been circulating since 2002 after first emerging in North American waterfowl. It is known...
