Zero-Covid harming 75% of European firms in China: business group

Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2022 - China's inflexible and inconsistent zero-Covid policy is crippling European business operations in the country, a major business lobby said Wednesday, warning that the presence of the companies can no longer be taken for granted.

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Zero-Covid harming 75% of European firms in China: business group

How does a soft-bodied ocean animal with no bones and no central command run its eight limbs semi-independently, keeping roughly two-thirds of its half-billion neurons out in the arms themselves?

The SR-71 Blackbird cruised at Mach 3.2 above 25,000 metres, and its titanium skin ran so hot in flight that the fuselage grew about 10 centimetres longer, which is why the fuel tanks were designed to leak on the ground and only seal once the plane heated up in the air

Friedrich Miescher spent the winter of 1869 rinsing pus off surgical bandages collected from a Tübingen clinic to isolate what he called nuclein, a phosphorus-rich substance from white blood cell nuclei that the world would take another 75 years to recognise as DNA

What happened when a Great Plains dust storm in 1935 blackened the sky over Washington DC on the very day a soil scientist was testifying to Congress about erosion?

In July 1962, a missing overbar in Mariner 1’s guidance equation helped send the Venus probe off course 293 seconds after launch, forcing range safety to destroy NASA’s $18.5 million mission

Yellen says US 'carefully' monitoring China economy

Yacht world seduces China, Brazil's super-rich

Xi's G20 no-show hints at China's shifting diplomatic priorities

Xi to show rising China's global role in US state visit

In 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase put radioactive virus-infected bacteria through a kitchen blender, and the tubes helped settle that DNA, not protein, carried genetic information

How does a single family of dam-building rodents, reintroduced to a drought-cracked valley, raise the water table by close to a metre and store more carbon in the resulting wetland than an equivalent area of forest?

The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead must correct their atomic clocks by 38 microseconds per day, because Einstein's relativity predicts time itself runs faster up there where Earth's gravity is weaker

In 1961, a Soviet test over Novaya Zemlya detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb called Tsar Bomba whose mushroom cloud reached 64 kilometres into the sky and whose flash was visible from roughly 1,000 kilometres away, still the largest explosion humans have ever produced

'Zero' evidence Syria rebels will use chemical weapons: Mattis

Zelensky pushes for promised weapons as Russia advances

Zelensky replaces defence minister, Russian drones hit Ukraine port

'You sold Ukraine': Izyum contends with occupation's fallout

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