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BEIJING, China — Beijing closed dozens of subway stations and expanded Covid restrictions Wednesday, constricting movement around the Chinese capital despite logging only dozens of daily cases.

BEIJING, China – Beijing residents will need clear Covid tests to enter public spaces, officials said Saturday, announcing fresh virus controls at the start of a Labour Day holiday muted by creeping infections in the capital.

BEIJING, China – Fears of a hard Covid lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing on Monday, as long queues for compulsory mass testing formed in a large central district of the Chinese capital.

Or learning how to dialogue in more ways than one.

Journalists who arrived early were the first to try them

BEIJING, China – The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 57 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Wednesday.

President Duterte stressed on Monday, Dec. 13 that the Philippines and China remain “good friends”, even recalling the debt of gratitude that the former has toward the latter amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

President Duterte’s acceptance of United States (US) President Joe Biden’s invitation to join the so-called Summit for Democracy only shows that the Philippines is “A friend to all, enemy to none.”

Fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) called out China’s “rampant plunder and destruction of marine resources” as it “adversely affect more than 600,000 Filipino fisherfolks” during a protest in Makati City on Thursday, Nov. 24.

President Duterte brought up the Ayungin Shoal incident during the country’s participation in the ASEAN-China Special Summit on Monday, Nov. 22.

Malacañang supports the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board’s (MTRCB) move of asking Netflix Inc. to yank from its list the episodes of “Pine Gap” that showed the inaccurate nine-dash line martime claim of China.

Being Filipino in Beijing.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that it has granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by China’s Sinopharm-Wuhan.

BEIJING, China — Three companies on Tuesday were given permits to run their unmanned delivery vehicles on designated open roads in Beijing, the first time the Chinese capital will allow such vehicles.

President Duterte reiterated his stand that the 2016 The Hague ruling invalidating China’s claim in the West Philippine Sea will just be rejected by China calling it “meaningless” this time around.

President Duterte urged the public to demand the truth about the West Philippine Sea issue from former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, saying the Philippines lost Scarborough Shoal to China after his backchannel talks with Beijing officials.