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Taiwanese authorities arrested Lin Hsien-Yuan, an online journalist, who worked for a media outlet called Fingermedia, a few weeks ago over a poll showing pro-China parties on course to win the upcoming January 13 election.

The Chinese expat community in Greece has come together to help a 22-year-old man from China suffering from acute leukaemia, while his father is also terminally ill with cancer.

Lin Qinglin, the 22-year-old hailing from Fujian, is in serious condition and his treatment requires repeated blood transfusions.

The heaviest rainfall in decades has triggered floods and landslides in southern China, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, state media reported.

Beijing launched a new-generation aircraft carrier Friday, the first such ship to be both designed and built in China, in a milestone as it seeks to extend the range and power of its navy.

The Type 003 carrier christened Fujian left its drydock at a shipyard outside Shanghai in the morning and tied up at a nearby pier, state media reports said.

Southern Chinese cities closed schools and ordered testing for millions on Sept. 14 in a race to curb a new COVID-19 outbreak which has sparked concerns over infections among unvaccinated schoolchildren.

Mushrooming outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant prompted China and Australia to impose stricter Covid-19 restrictions on July 31 as the WHO urged the world to quickly contain the mutation before it turns into something deadlier and draws out the pandemic.

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A total of 475 patients were discharged from the hospital by Sunday after recovery, Chinese health officials said on Monday.
The first patient in the southwestern city of Sichuan, Suining, recovered from the virus on Monday, bringing the total number of hospital discharges to 13 after recovering in that particular province.

They are divided between Hubei Province - the centre of the epidemic - and those of Jiang and Fujian

The Vatican has sent between 600,000 and 700,000 masks to China to try to help combat the spread of the coronavirus, Figaro reports.

The gathering operation was coordinated by Father Vincenzo Han Duo.

The Chinese Communist Party has today re-elected President Xi Jinping  as Secretary General of the Senior Leadership Comittee in its first plenary session. The new CCP also elected 7 members its Standing Committee.

At least 32 people were reported missing Sept. 29 after rain-saturated hillsides collapsed onto villages in southeastern China following a typhoon, the Associated Press reported.