Large groups of workers staged protests on Jan. 7 at a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Chongqing, a megacity in the southwest of China. The protests erupted after thousands of workers were abruptly laid off by Zybio, Inc., a manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits. Videos posted online show angry workers demolishing boxes of COVID-19 test kits,…
Massive Protests Erupt in China’s Megacity Chongqing Over Abrupt Layoffs
‘Whether You Live or Die, No One Cares’: Chinese Left Helpless Amid COVID Crisis
Inside the mortuary of a top hospital in China’s fifth most populous city of Guangzhou, dead bodies have been piled on the floor after the refrigerated chambers hit capacity. Outside several morgues in the southwestern municipality Chongqing, cars have formed long lines waiting for bodies to be cremated. Up north in China’s capital, there were…
Overloaded Chongqing Crematory Recruits Day Workers Amid Surge of Deaths in Recent Flare-Up
China’s southwestern megacity Chongqing is experiencing a surge of infections of COVID amid the recent flare-up. More than 5 million people in the city, accounting for over 15 percent of its total population, have been infected by the pandemic in the first 20 days of December, according to leaked notes of a virtual health meeting…
Protest Break Out in Chongqing After Residents Learn COVID-19 Testing Staff Were Infected
Protests broke out in at least two subdistricts in China’s southwest megacity Chongqing on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26. China has recently seen massive protests across the country against the Chinese communist regime’s zero-COVID measures, triggered by growing angst from the prolonged lockdowns and further fueled by horrific deaths of at least 10 people, according…
Protests Break Out in Chongqing After Residents Learn COVID-19 Testing Staff Were Infected
Protests broke out in at least two subdistricts in China’s southwest megacity Chongqing on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26. China has recently seen massive protests across the country against the Chinese communist regime’s zero-COVID measures, triggered by growing angst from the prolonged lockdowns and further fueled by horrific deaths of at least 10 people, according…
China’s Chongqing City Forced to Lift Lockdown Amid Strong Protests
Large crowds of people took to the street on the night of Aug. 27, preparing to storm the barricades that blocked them from leaving their community in a subdistrict in China’s southwestern metropolis Chongqing. Lianfang subdistrict of Chongqing’s Shapingba district was locked down on Aug. 18. After 10 consecutive days of negative PCR tests of…
Passengers Injured as Plane Leaves Runway in Western China
BEIJING—A Chinese passenger jet left the runway upon takeoff and caught fire in western China on Thursday morning, and several people were injured. Tibet Airlines said it happened at 8:09 a.m. local time as the flight to the city of Nyingchi in Tibet was preparing to take off from the western city of Chongqing. The…
Backlash After Starbucks Criticized Based on a Rumor
Starbucks was caught in a backlash of online comments and criticism after a Weibo user described an incident in which a policeman eating his lunch in front of a Starbucks store in the Ciqikou neighborhood in southwestern China’s Chongqing city on Feb. 13. was driven off by Starbuck’s staff claiming that the policeman eating in…
At Least 3 Dead After Earthquake Strikes Southwestern China
An earthquake—measuring a magnitude of 6.0—jolted southwestern China’s Sichuan Province early Thursday morning, according to China’s state-run media. At least three people have been confirmed dead and three others seriously injured in Lu County, where the center of the quake struck, local authorities said. Lu County, a division of Luzhou City, is located about 126…
Chinese Regime Lowers Age of 80-Year-Old Believer in Order to Jail Her
The Chinese regime recently sentenced an 80-year-old Falun Gong practitioner to 1 and a half years in jail by claiming she was five years younger. In China, the law provides more leniency for minors and the elderly, and the age of 75 sets the bar. The woman, Chen Guifen, received the court verdict at the…
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