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China's public and businesses pay prohibitive cost of keeping country virus free
•China’s abrupt and severe response to outbreaks has hit businesses, hindering efforts to keep the economic recovery on track
WTA Tour cancels Kunming Open scheduled for April in China's Anning city due to coronavirus threat
•The flu-like coronavirus has killed over 3,000 people and infected more than 89,000 globally after it originated in China late last year
Coronavirus update 12 Feb: WHO officially names virus COVID-19, rate of infections appears to slow down, death toll at 1,115 and more
Myupchar •Encouragingly, cases outside Hubei have been falling for 8 days consecutively - in fact, Tuesday saw the lowest rate of infection in 10 days.
Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou among 10 cities to host AFC Asian Cup 2023, confirms Chinese Football Association
•In hosting the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the CFA aims to promote the China Football Reform Plan with more infrastructure, better youth programmes and promotion of the grassroots game
China accepts to resolve problems around misprinting of Tesla Model 3 labels
•Tesla’s Shanghai factory plans to start making Model 3s at the end of this year.
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang's trial underway; wife under house arrest, 2 activists held ahead of proceedings
•Charged in January 2016 with alleged "subversion of state power", Wang Quanzhang had been in legal limbo — detained without a trial date — until Monday, when his government-appointed lawyer finally contacted his wife with the court date.
China denies Donald Trump's allegation of its meddling in US elections, demands Washington to show 'mutual respect'
•Accusations of election meddling are especially sensitive in the US, given the political maelstrom over Russia's alleged intervention to support Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential vote
Chinese police confiscate 600 computers which were being used to mine bitcoins
•Miners use high-powered machines to generate the massive computing power to produce cryptocurrencies, which is done by solving mathematical equations.
Davis Cup: Indians shiver in frosty Tianjin; Ramkumar Ramanathan, Sumit Nagal suffer straight-set defeats
Deepti Patwardhan •The Indians guarded themselves against the elements, keeping the chill away with bulky winter jackets and gloves, but couldn't weather the storm kicked up by the Chinese on Day One of their Davis Cup tie
China sentences online activist 'Super Vulgar Butcher' to eight years in prison for subversion
•A Chinese court sentenced an activist known by the online pseudonym "Super Vulgar Butcher" to eight years in prison on Tuesday after he refused to plead guilty to charges of "subverting state power"