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  China Seeks To Make Covid Testing A Permanent Feature Of Everyday Life

  China is setting up thousands of permanent Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing stations, with 9,000 already completed in Shanghai alone, as authorities seek to "normalise" tough pandemic controls even after the current round of lockdowns end.

• China smog makes capital 'barely suitable' for life: report

  Severe pollution in Beijing has made the Chinese capital "barely suitable" for living, according to an official Chinese report, as the world's largest economy tries to reduce often hazardous levels of smog caused by decades of rapid growth.

• Web crash in China: great firewall suspected

  Human error likely caused a glitch in China's Great Firewall that saw millions of Internet users ironically rerouted to the homepage of a U.S.-based company which helps people evade Beijing's web censorship, sources told Reuters.

• China's one child policy change set for Q1 next year

  Changes to China's strict one child policy, which will allow more parents to have a second child, will begin to roll out early next year.

• China nears moment of truth on IPO reform: crash or recovery?

  China's plan to build confidence in domestic stock markets, and turn around their reputation as financial casinos, will depend on a regulatory gamble paying off next year.

• Volkswagen to recall over 640,000 vehicles in China

  German car giant Volkswagen is to recall more than 640,000 vehicles in China for a possible gearbox fault, it said on Thursday in its second recall in the world's largest auto market in two days.

• Local tastes tempt China diners away from Golden Arches

  Bearing rice burgers and lotus roots, an army of Chinese fast food firms is cooking up a challenge to McDonald's Corp and Yum Brands Inc, tempting cost-conscious diners with healthy, homegrown fare and causing a drag on growth for the US chains in the country's $174 billion fast food market.

• China police arrest man after plane bomb threats

  Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said on Saturday.

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  Dibakar Banerjee: No sequel to Shanghai for a long time

  Director Dibakar Banerjee has rubbished rumours about making a sequel to his last year's release Shanghai.

• China bird flu death toll rises to 18, 95 people infected

  China reported another death and four new infections from a new strain of bird flu on Saturday, raising the death toll to 18, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

• Strong quake hits China; 102 dead, more than 2,200 injured

  A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 102 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.

• Death toll hits 16 in China bird flu outbreak: Xinhua

  H7N9 bird flu has claimed two more lives in Shanghai, Chinese state media said on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from the disease to 16.

• China's bird flu response shows new openness

  After a new and lethal strain of bird flu emerged in Shanghai two weeks ago, the government of China's bustling financial capital responded with live updates on a Twitter-like microblog. It's a starkly different approach than a decade ago, when Chinese officials silenced reporting as a deadly pneumonia later known as SARS killed dozens in the south...

• China detains ten for bird flu rumours, death toll at nine

  Chinese police detained at least 10 people for spreading rumours about the H7N9 bird flu virus, state media said on Wednesday, as the death toll from the new strain rose to nine.

• Two new bird flu cases in China amid poultry crackdown

  Two more people have contracted bird flu in Shanghai, China's health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities closed live poultry markets and culled birds to combat a new virus strain that has killed six people.