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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In 1953, Rosalind Franklin's X-ray image labelled Photo 51 sat in a drawer at King's College London when Maurice Wilkins showed it to James Watson without her knowledge, and the dark diffraction cross at its centre gave away DNA's helical shape before she could publish her own analysis

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

In 1953, Rosalind Franklin's X-ray image labelled Photo 51 sat in a drawer at King's College London when Maurice Wilkins showed it to James Watson without her knowledge, and the dark diffraction cross at its centre gave away DNA's helical shape before she could publish her own analysis

Tardigrades pulled from Antarctic moss can survive a decade without water, temperatures near absolute zero, and a 10-day exposure to the open vacuum of space in 2007, curling into a dehydrated husk they call a tun until conditions improve

In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and pressure dense enough to crush a submarine — long enough to scan back two panoramas of flat basaltic rock under an orange-tinted sky before the heat finally ended the mission

Titan's methane should have been stripped away by sunlight within tens of millions of years — the fact that it persists after four billion years means something, possibly ice volcanoes venting from the interior, is still replenishing it, and no one yet knows what

What happened when engineers removed a century-old hydroelectric dam from a New England river, and Atlantic salmon returned to spawning grounds they had not reached in roughly 200 years?

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 urges less 'suspicion' in US-China ties

Why does roughly 27 million tonnes of desert dust cross an ocean each year to fertilise a rainforest on the other side of the planet?

How did a Southeast Asian city-state with no large natural rivers or usable groundwater engineer enough recycled water to meet roughly 40 percent of its total demand?

How did a windswept North Atlantic island once almost entirely stripped of its birch forests by Viking settlers push tree cover from less than 1 percent back toward 2 percent, tree by stubborn tree?

In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under one of the first compound microscopes in London and saw thousands of tiny empty chambers that reminded him of monks' rooms, which is why every living thing on Earth is now measured in units he called cells

'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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