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WUHAN, China —  If it wasn’t for the face masks, one would never guess that a pandemic had started here. Jianghan Street, a famous pedestrian shopping avenue lined with colonial buildings, was bursting with Chinese New Year cheer. Red lanterns hung from street lamps, storefronts displayed holiday sales, families snacked on hawthorn candy skewers and bought clothes and gifts for the season. Decorations for the Chinese New Year hang in a store in Wuhan, China. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Pre...

In Depth: Rush to Expand China’s Oil Refining Capacity Raises Specter of Supply Glut Heavy machinery pumps oil from an oilfield on Nov. 27 in Daqing, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. China’s oil refining capacity is growing rapidly, with projects involving tens of millions of tons of annual capacity scheduled to come online in the next few years, even as global giants cut back due to sluggish demand. This raises the prospect that the country’s refining industry could follow in t...

Train ticket alternation goes online Many of our readers have chosen to call off travel plans for this year’s New Year holiday, but that doesn’t keep us from dreaming about our next destinations. And, as long as we’re fantasizing, we might as well imagine that our future trips will go off without a hitch – which is likely a bit closer to reality now that train tickets can finally be altered online! You can use the 12306 website (which now has an English edition!) or app to make the adj...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Kandi Contracts to Sell 3,000 EVs to Rideshare Partner Kandi Technologies Group, Inc.January 28, 2021 GMT Jinhua, China, Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kandi Technologies Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: KNDI) (the “Company” or “Kandi”) announced today that one of its subsidiaries, Kandi Electric Vehicles (Hainan) Co., Ltd. (Kandi Hainan) signed a contract to sell 3,000 model K23 electric cars to an...

This is Wuhan now: A year later, the first post-pandemic city 13 minutes to read By: Christopher Buckley, Keith Bradsher, Vivian Wang and Amy Qin The long months of harsh lockdown have faded from view in Wuhan, the first city in the world devastated by the new coronavirus. As residents look to move on, they cite a Chinese saying that warns against "forgetting the pain after a scar heals." To many in this central Chinese city, the saying sums up a temptation to let go of the ba...

Jan 23, 2021 The long months of harsh lockdown have faded from view in Wuhan, the first city in the world devastated by the new coronavirus. As residents look to move on, they cite a Chinese saying that warns against “forgetting the pain after a scar heals.” To many in this central Chinese city, the saying sums up a temptation to let go of the bad memories while reveling in the recovery. To families grieving in the shadows, it means the danger of hastily forgetting without a public...

Last weeks safety recall of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) vehicles will come and go, as recalls do. But Tesla owners will want to take note of a key part of the issue that will endure for quite a bit longer: the short lifespan of the screens in question. What Happened: Motor Authority, a news... Read More...

“When people from other places come to Wuhan now, they would have a feeling that nothing ever happened here,” said Ai Xiaoming, sitting in the book-filled study of her home in the city at the heart of China’s coronavirus outbreak last January. “It feels like they know nothing about the dead, or the families’ feelings,” said the 67-year-old writer and documentary film-maker. “The [Chinese] media rarely reports on these issues. There is no space...

Three writers who blogged about life in the city where Covid began still face constant threats and monitoring

#THEATRE Audiences will get a chance to sit on the Esplanade Theatre stage for a change in this unusual site-specific work by design collective Index, which opens the Esplanades 2021 The Studios season. The work, which focuses on the theatres architecture and meditates on what the space has been through during the pandemic shutdown, is helmed by lighting designer Lim Woan Wen, spatial designer Lim Wei Ling and sound artist Darren Ng. WHERE: Esplanade Theatre, 1 Esplanade Drive WHEN: Jan 14 to 1...