declines from a day earlier after the bank said customers had pulled $100 billion in deposits in march. first republic has been under pressure since a series of us bank failures last month sparked fears of a wider crisis. chinese police have visited the office of the us management and consultancy firm bain & company in shanghai and questioned its staff. a statement from bain s spokesman said the company is cooperating with chinese authorities but offered no further information. chinese authorities last month raided the office of the american corporate due diligence firm mince group and traders are increasingly pessimistic about their prospects there according to a survey by the american chamber of commerce in china. to india now because the country is estimated to overtake china as the world s most populous country by the end of april, with more than 1.4 billion
media label to its account, branding it the same way as it does as major media outlets in authoritarian countries such as russia or china. the most senior roman catholic cleric in hong kong is making the first episcopal visit to beijing in nearly three decades. the trip by bishop stephen chow comes weeks after the chinese government said it had unilaterally installed a bishop in shanghai. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. whether it s an advert for the cinema, cigarettes or even sugar coated bills these mysterious signs are all over our towns and cities. we ve all had situations where we been driving around, not really noticing our surroundings. but you will have seen signs like these painted onto the sides of buildings advertising products
supermarket shelves perhaps or serving in a supermarket than doing some of the most important and life changing and life supporting measures for people who need to have someone looking after them and cannot look after themselves. baroness, thank you forjoining us. ai weiwei is one of the most famous artists in the world, but infamous to the chinese authorities. to them he is an outspoken, critical troublemaker. eight years ago, after a period of imprisonment and then house arrest in shanghai, he left china and now lives in portugal, but his work is always about china and often using ordinary objects and found materials to comment on his country s past and present. when he was two the family was banished at the start of the cultural revolution, to the gobi desert in order to punish his father, then china s most famous poet, ai quing. for the first five years of that banishment they lived in an underground hole, with no light heat or water.
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the world health organization has again asked china for better data about the current wave of coronavirus infections. ca5e5 5urged after beijing abruptly reversed its zero covid policy in december. the who also says it s concerned about the risk to life in china. here s the director general: we continue to ask china for more reliable data for ho5pitalisation5 and deaths a5 reliable data for ho5pitalisation5 and deaths as well as more real time sequences. they re concerned the risk to life in china and has reiterated the importance of vaccination, including posting against hospitalisations and businesses and deaths. with the easing of restrictions, infections have soared. these are images from a hospital in shanghai, which appears to be overwhelmed, with patients on trolleys in corridors. international health experts are predicting at least a million covid deaths in china this year. so far beijing has reported five or fewer deaths a day since the policy u turn.