Shanghai News

Although some countries, led by the United States and some of its European allies, have announced round after round of sanctions on Russia for the Ukraine conflict, a closer scrutiny would reveal that countries with explicit sanctions, numbering less than 20, are still a small fraction...

Shanghai’s Pudong Customs cleared goods worth US$2.7 billion from March 28 to Sunday, despite the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, according to customs statistics. Customs handled 22,000 customs declarations and ensured the smooth passage of 2.75 million tons of goods during the period. Pudong has among...

John Lee was elected as the sixth-term chief executive designate of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region yesterday. The 64-year-old former chief secretary for administration of Hong Kong won 1,416 votes by Election Committee members in the first chief executive election in the city since the...

There’s an old Chinese saying: A good neighbor is better than a brother far away. In times of lockdown, the wisdom of the ancients has shown its eternal relevance. Neighbors under stay-at-home orders have often banded together to create economies of scale by buying foodstuff in...

HONG Kong filmmaker Daniel Lee’s martial arts epic “Song of the Assassins” is being screened on the streaming platform iQiyi’s Cloud Cinema, with a few other releases drawing a substantial online crowd. Starring Feng Shaofeng and Hu Jun, the film is adapted from Yuan Taiji’s online...

In baseball-mad South Korea teams of professional cheerleaders pumping up players and fans with elaborate K-pop routines are as integral to the games as beer and fried chicken. Imported by American missionaries more than 100 years ago, baseball is South Korea’s most cherished spectator sport, beating...

Shanghai let some of its 25 million residents venture out for light and air after reporting a second day of zero infections outside of quarantine areas. While much of the city remains in lockdown, Shanghai officials, striking a confident tone, said yesterday that curbs on some...

Shanghai will launch another round of citywide nucleic acid testing today to continue screening out positive COVID-19 cases, with the goal of achieving zero community transmissions soon. Every resident in the city’s locked-down, controlled and precautionary areas will take a polymerase chain reaction test today despite...