At the beginning of 2022, a photo of a chained woman found in China’s Xuzhou city went viral. It was discovered she was a victim of human trafficking and was used as the family’s slave. Her gruesome story includes birthing children from various men. This enraged many in China who had lost daughters to human trafficking. […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained at least four people for more than a week after they attended protests against COVID-19 restrictions in late November, according to activists, family members, and friends of the detained. While many who attended protests in cities across China last month were released after being […]
Chinese riot police in white hazmat suits clashed with people in southern China’s Guangzhou city on Tuesday night, according to online videos seen by Reuters. In one Twitter video, dozens of riot police holding shields advanced in formation over what looked like torn-down lockdown barriers, while objects were thrown in their direction. Later, police were […]
Guangzhou city authorities are setting up makeshift hospitals and quarantine sites. The facilities will include enough beds for nearly 250,000 COVID-19 patients and their close-contacts. The city is a manufacturing hub and home to about 20 million people. It may be battling China’s largest outbreak of the year. Official data shows that new, daily infections […]
Residents under COVID-19 lockdown in China’s southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou have torn down barriers meant to confine them to their homes, taking to the streets in defiance of strictly enforced local orders, according to video and images circulating on social media. Some of the images show large crowds cheering and surging across toppled barriers […]
BEIJING—China was hit this week by a rare convergence of record rainfall, heatwaves, and a tornado in the southern city of Guangzhou, displacing millions of people, damaging properties, and swamping farmland, with more storms and floods on the way. Southern China is expected to see torrential rain until Tuesday, state media reported on Friday, with […]
BEIJING—The manufacturing hub of Guangzhou closed itself to most arrivals Monday as China battles a major COVID-19 surge in its big eastern cities. Shanghai has taken the brunt of the rise, with another 26,087 cases announced on Monday, only 914 of which showed symptoms. The city of 26 million is under a tight lockdown, with […]
A beauty expo in China turned into a nightmare due to one allegedly positive CCP virus case. That’s according to videos posted on social media. About 50,000 people were reportedly stuck at the expo venue on Friday, which is located in the southern city of Guangzhou. The entire event was immediately put under lockdown after […]
SHENZHEN, China—China’s major southern cities Guangzhou and Shenzhen have warned of severe water shortages lasting into next spring as the East River, a tributary of Guangdong’s Pearl River, continues to be hit by its most severe drought in decades. Officials in both cities are asking citizens to reduce water consumption, with rainfall between January to […]
Cases of the COVID-19 “Delta” variant, which has the shortest transmission time discovered so far, have recently appeared in Guangzhou, China. The new Delta variant could transmit by simply passing by the virus carrier even without physical contact. This report puts Shenzhen, the city adjacent to Guangzhou, the world’s third-largest cargo port, under tremendous stress. […]
China’s Guangzhou city is suspending vaccinations for fear of overcrowding sites—but at the same time, authorities there are administering the world’s largest citywide virus testing. Meanwhile, questions are rising over Chinese vaccines’ efficacy.
All eyes in China seem to be on Guangdong province and its escalating pandemic situation. As of June 1, 13 new cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus were found province-wide. The youngest is an asymptomatic 7-year-old girl, according to China’s official figures data, which NTD can’t verify independently.
