China have banned women modeling lingerie on online shopping livestreams, and in order to bypass the ban, online lingerie businesses are hiring men to do the modeling instead. Before now, Livestreams featuring females modeling lingerie have a history of being promptly shut down and banned as a result of China’s law against spreading obscene material online. Taking to social media, …

China said on Saturday that nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospitals since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country’s coronavirus data. In early December, Beijing abruptly dismantled its strict three-year anti-virus regime of frequent testing, travel curbs, and mass lockdowns after widespread protests …

Many countries, including France, Britain, and Morocco’s cross-strait neighbor Spain, have said they will require negative Covid tests for all travelers from mainland China. But the Moroccan foreign ministry said in a statement that authorities in the North African country “decided to forbid access to the territory of the Kingdom of Morocco for all travelers, whatever their nationality, coming from …