Beijing’s embassy urges avoiding Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, where attacks on Chinese workers and projects have surged.

Transactions of new homes jumped 27 per cent from a year earlier in an index that tracks deals across 25 mainland cities.

Hongkongers made 1.78 million trips out of city this year, while 1.2 million mainland Chinese arrivals were recorded.

Services are being restored, with mobile and broadband unaffected.

Guo is facing human trafficking charges and accusations that she has links to Chinese intelligence.

Scalpers have listed tickets on the online platform for up to three times the original price.

Chinese travellers and tourists spent 700.82 billion yuan during the just-ended holiday week – a 7.9 per cent increase from the same period in pre-pandemic 2019.

The week-long National Day break saw more than 13 million travellers crossing the mainland’s borders.

Biden mandated a 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes, to make drinking water safer, addressing a critical public health issue.

Lance Yuen spent two decades at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Bayer in the region before becoming the CEO at CK Life Sciences last month.