The number of pet abandonment cases all over the world is soaring as inflation drives up the cost of keeping these beloved animals around and people who got pets during the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown period are now resorting to abandoning them as they return to their offices. In Singapore, animal welfare groups said these new developments have emerged as major reasons why people abandon... 

Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after emerging as the only candidate Saturday to replace Jacinda Ardern. Hipkins still needs the endorsement from his Labour Party colleagues, but that’s believed to be a formality at this point. He’d have just over eight months in the role until the next general election. “It’s a big day for a boy from the... 

Amid the bustling streets of Guangzhou in southern China, chaos erupted as protesters clashed with riot police, donned in hazmat suits, in a display of defiance against President Xi Jinping’s oppressive regime and his controversial zero-Covid policies. Shouts and the shattering of glass reverberated through the air as demonstrators confronted the heavily equipped riot police. The police, clad... 

Violent clashes have broken out at China’s biggest iPhone factory with angry workers protesting against brutal Covid rules and dismal living conditions. Hazmat-wearing officials could be seen viciously beating one man with sticks while cops desperately attempted to convince workers to return to their accommodation amid on-running protests at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou. According to livestream... 

A 72-year-old man has been sentenced to six months in prison for the crime of serving mince pies with wine at his shooting club in 2020 while the area was under a lockdown. The BBC reports that “Maurice Snelling broke tier three restrictions at Cloudside Shooting Grounds in 2020,” by allowing people to sit in at his premises rather than take away. Mr Snelling pleaded guilty to perverting the course... 

After the controversial, two-months long coronavirus lockdown of Shanghai, China has once again placed a city of more than 20 million people under house arrest. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, a coronavirus lockdown in Chengdu in Central China that had started on Thursday was prolonged Monday. Mass tests are being carried out after the city saw 71 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday. While... 

Most of the narratives surrounding the covid pandemic and the lockdowns were illogical and faulty, based in propaganda rather than science and fear instead of reason. One key issue that was never addressed by lockdown proponents was the question of “risk.” Doesn’t every individual have a natural right to take whatever risks they see as acceptable when it comes to their own health? If a group... 

A senior EU official has had the audacity to claim that the bloc never pushed people into getting jabbed against Covid. Her claim has not surprsingly been met with disbelief from critics. Eurocrat Věra Jourová stunned onlookers on Tuesday after claiming that the bloc had never pushed citizens into getting jabbed in order to allow them access to public services. She said that claims to the contrary... 

Just over a week after we reported that “Shanghai was finally lifting its Covid lockdown“, China’s commercial capital is once again backsliding into the warm embrace of Wuhan’s proudest export, and will “briefly” lock down most of the city this weekend for mass testing as Covid-19 cases continue to emerge, causing more disruption and triggering a renewed run on groceries days after exiting... 

Hopes that the CCP might be easing its Shanghai lockdown were dashed this week as authorities loosened restrictions for manufacturers and others businesses, while mostly keeping restrictions on residential areas intact. Instead of winding down restrictions in Shanghai, authorities are now scrambling to suppress an outbreak in Beijing which they believe may have been spreading for as long as a week.... 

It appears as though a mass genocide is currently taking place in Shanghai as government officials starve residents to death in order to keep them “safe” against the latest strain of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Reports are flooding in depicting troops and tanks on the streets, people screaming in terror, people jumping out of windows to commit suicide and farmers being arrested. And Big... 

As Australia emerges from two years of Covid isolation, a new health concern is taking center stage: the outbreak of a ‘super cold.’ Health experts are sounding the alarm about the potential rise in respiratory illnesses as the country reopens, with the super cold making its presence felt after initially surfacing in the UK in November. This peculiar cold, exhibiting flu-like or Coronavirus-like... 

China is reportedly facing its worst Covid crisis since early 2020 when an entire population was locked down to contain the virus in Wuhan and its surrounding province. Now, two years on, covid is seeing tens of millions of people forced into lockdown again, this time in the entire northeastern province of Jilin and the southern cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan. ABC news reports: China, the last major... 

Sweden, a country which never imposed significant lockdown measures, has officially declared that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” and announced that it will be lifting all remaining restrictions. “As we know this pandemic, I would say it’s over,” Minister of Health Lena Hallengren told Dagens Nyheter. “It’s not over, but as we know it in terms of quick changes and restrictions it is.” According... 

As Denmark became the first EU country to remove all restrictions despite a spike in Omicron cases, its Nordic peers are eyeing a similar approach despite the explosive spread. But whereas Denmark decided to go all in and remove all restrictions in what has been described as “back to normalcy”, its neighbours decided to proceed with more caution. For instance, Norway has announced a substantial...