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from the SCMP and Xinhua Coronavirus: China to stage day of mourning on Saturday for thousands killed by Covid-19 People asked to observe three minutes of ‘silence’ from 10am as sirens and vehicle horns blast out across the countryFlags to be flown at half-mast to commemorate the 3,322 Chinese killed by the virulent disease
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from Goldthread - an interesting article, but it doesn't seem like a place you'd want to visit. Inside the Chinese caves where SARS may have originated Preserving a fading culture in Yunnan
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Now that we see the end is near for the quarantine in Wuhan, things are starting to loosen up. We are still completely locked down but I see many many more cars leaving our compound now. Some of the buses are supposed to be starting up today too. But the grocery stores around us are still closed but I hear some of the bigger ones closer to the center of town are opening. Now I see on the news last night (channel 79 has English) that you need to have a green QR code to get on the buses. And residents can get a QR code through Alibiba I think. But there is no mention of us stuck here with a tourist visa who are not residents. Is there any way we can get a QR code? Also since we went into lockdown the night we got here, I never had time to get a Chinese sim card for my iPhone. So I don't have a phone that works outside of the range of the apartment. Any advice on what we can do? Any help would be appreciated Marty
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from Xinhua China offers exit, entry conveniences to foreigners amid epidemic control With no need of a separate application, foreigners in China will have their stay or residence permits extended automatically for two months during the epidemic period, Liu Haitao, an official with the administration, said Sunday at a press conference in Beijing.
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from the Sixth Tone China Warns of Desert Locust Invasion The pests have already wreaked havoc across several East African countries, as well as India and Pakistan. Desert locusts are said to be one the world’s most destructive migratory pests, spreading fast and devouring any crops in their path. The current blight of desert locusts, considered to be the worst in decades, has affected large swaths of farmland in countries ranging from East Africa to South Asia, threatening food supplies for millions of people in those regions. Last week, the forestry administration said China’s risk of a desert locust invasion remains low. However, experts predict that locust plagues in neighboring countries including Pakistan and India, as well as favorable weather patterns, could allow the pests to spread into the regions of Tibet, Xinjiang, or Yunnan in June and July.
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I still buy little 200 ml bottles of Half&Half strength from Zhuangnui with local distributors from the SixthTone How China Got Milk In the span of 150 years, cow’s milk went from practically unheard of in most of China to a staple of a healthy diet. http://image5.sixthtone.com/image/5/24/22 Milk surfacing as a go-to remedy in the country during a public health crisis shows just how far the beverage has come in the past century and a half. Nomadic groups in northern and northwestern China have consumed dairy products for thousands of years, but for the vast majority of the country, the habit was a side effect of the country’s subjugation by Western powers. Indeed, milk’s actual contents have often been overshadowed in China by geopolitical and nationalist concerns: Fortified by early 20th century theories of nutritional science, advocates promoted dairy as a means to strengthen the country’s body politic and restore its health. Cow’s milk was first imported into coastal and central China by the Western merchants who trickled into the country after the First Opium War in the mid-19th century. In the southern port city of Guangzhou, Western merchants first tried shipping the drink from neighboring Macao, where the Portuguese had maintained a presence since the 16th century, and a few even tried raising their own cows in the city’s business district. . . . In bigger cities, like Shanghai, water buffalo milk was diluted, filtered, and steamed before consumption, though only desperate expatriates would touch it.
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from the SCMP China typically buys 95 per cent of California’s lobsters. But amid the coronavirus outbreak, demand has waned, forcing local businesses to slash prices. https://www.facebook.com/355665009819/posts/10158031505529820/ https://www.facebook.com/355665009819/posts/10158031505529820/
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from the SCMP Coronavirus: US Postal Service suspends shipments to China, Hong Kong https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3050103/coronavirus-us-postal-service-suspends-items-destined-china-and-hong USPS says it would no longer accept items destined for China ‘until sufficient transport capacity becomes available’ In a note informing its counterparts all over the world, USPS said it was “experiencing significant difficulties” in dispatching letters, parcels and express mail to China, including Hong Kong and Macau, and it would no longer accept items destined for China “until sufficient transport capacity becomes available”, according to Associated Press.
