By Jazz Tangcay
17.03.2020 - 23:17 / variety.com
China said Tuesday it will expel all American journalists working in the country for the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal whose credentials will expire in 2020.
The journalists will have to turn in their press credentials within 10 days, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
“They will not be allowed to continue working as journalists in the People’s Republic of China, including its Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions,” the statement
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The New England Patriots plane is flying much-needed coronavirus crisis medical supplies to Boston from China, CBS Boston reports. A Patriots spokesperson said the team's Boeing 767 went to Shenzhen, China Wednesday to pick up 1.2 million N95 masks, and it's now on its way back to the U.S.
NEW YORK -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, pressed to identify media figures that he said expressed “glee” at Americans getting coronavirus, has cited an editorial cartoonist, a magazine writer, an online tech publication and an online editor.
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The prime minister on Monday evening announced new stringent measures to limit activity in the UK, and although it wasn’t specifically labelled, it’s fair to say the region is now under a ‘lockdown’.
A man from Perth currently working in China has sent an encouraging update back to a Fair City mental health organisation.
China’s main state-owned distributor plans to issue a batch of half a dozen films, from which cinemas will keep all income, in order to get the country’s exhibition sector back on its feet after long closures due to coronavirus, it has said.
“We can’t stay closed forever"
Research by Chinese ticketing agency Maoyan appears to show that Chinese people have not lost their taste for feature films during the recent coronavirus-enforced closure of cinemas.
Despite what the company called a “challenging” period, Chinese online publisher and TV producer China Literature completed its first year on the stock market with a 22% increase in profits to $156 million (RMB1.1 billion). It was rewarded with a 10% jump in its shares by midday Wednesday.
A theater in China has decided to reopen its’ doors to the public after being locked up since the end of January due to coronavirus. However, no one showed up!