Shanghai officials said Wednesday that they would begin COVID-19 testing over the coming days to determine which neighborhoods were considered lower risk. ( read original story ...)
Lone female courier in Shanghai determined to help city fight Covid-19 Lone female courier in Shanghai determined to help city fight Covid-19
Forty-year-old Liu Xiaoli is the only woman among the first batch of couriers to come to Shanghai from Henan Province. ( read original story ...)
Bankers desperate to leave Shanghai as COVID lockdown hurts businesses
Harsh COVID-19 lockdowns have had a direct hit on business prospects in Shanghai, leaving finance sector workers desperate to move to Hong kong. ( read original story ...)
Financial lobby group urges Shanghai to ease COVID rules for staff stuck in offices
A leading lobby group for global financial services firms has urged Shanghai authorities to let hundreds of exhausted staff go home after a month-long strict COVID-19 lockdown that has kept them in ... ( read original story ...)
Shanghai lockdown supply chain issues are a ‘real nightmare’: Gordan Chang
Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang reacts to the Shanghai lockdown creating a supply chain nightmare. ( read original story ...)
China: Weibo removes hashtag about food shortages in Shanghai as locked-down residents go hungry
Despite Shanghai authorities’ assurances of providing necessities to the 26 million people confined to their homes, residents of China’s most-populous city have been struggling to keep hunger at bay ... ( read original story ...)
China’s top chip maker SMIC has two-thirds of Shanghai workers sleeping in factory as lockdown threatens semiconductor supply chain
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, China’s best hope in achieving chip self-sufficiency in chip-making, has been operating under “closed-loop” arrangement. ( read original story ...)