Omicron: Beijing shuts metro stations, schools; to test 21 mn people daily

China's capital Beijing on Wednesday shut down several metro stations besides schools, restaurants and businesses and ordered daily COVID-19 testing of its 21 million people as it ramped up......

China coronavirus toll up to 170; cases soar to 7,711

The nationwide death toll from China's novel coronavirus epidemic has jumped to 170 with 38 more fatalities reported mainly from the worst-affected central Hubei province, the government said on......

Coronavirus-hit Chinese city suspends public transport

China has suspended all public transport, including flights in and out of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus as the confirmed cases climbed to 571 mostly from the city with 17 deaths so far.......

China lifts 73-day lockdown of virus epicentre Wuhan

Tens of thousands of people in Wuhan, the origin point and epicentre for the coronavirus pandemic, began travelling out of the sprawling city on Wednesday as China lifted its 73-day lockdown, even......

China's $20 bn investment to transform India?

Read through the list of 16 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) signed between China and India during President Xi Jinping's state visit a fortnight ago and it is hard to pin down the $20 billion......

China's engines of growth

The scenery whizzing by is somewhat similar to what you might see, in parts, on a train journey from Mumbai to Pune. Miles of industrial sheds, some spanking new, others somewhat dilapidated with......

200 amazing years of rail transport

First electric locomotive. Photograph: Siemens Two hundred years after George Stephenson built the steam-powered Blucher, Open Knowledge pays tribute to 200 years of rail transport. ......

High-speed trains? India baulks at cost

The launch of the new $15 billion Taiwan High Speed Rail service, built with imported Japanese high-velocity-train technology, on Jan. 5 once again confirmed the Asia's economic dynamism. And......