Hundreds protest Covid lockdowns at Beijing’s Tsinghua University
- 27-Nov-2022
BEIJING: Hundreds of students from Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University took part in a protest against Covid lockdowns on Sunday, a witness told AFP and footage on social media showed. The protest at Tsinghua follows an overnight demonstration at neighbouring Peking University, and videos have spread on social media of similar gatherings in other Chinese cities. […]
Oil prices fall on Shanghai’s new partial COVID lockdowns
- 10-Jun-2022
Oil prices slipped on Friday but remained within touching distance of three-month highs as fears over new COVID-19 lockdown measures in Shanghai outweighed solid demand for fuels in the United States, the world’s top consumer. Brent crude futures for August was down $1.01, or 0.8%, at $122.06 a barrel as of 0141 GMT after a 0.4% […]