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BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office condemned U.S. sanctions on Chinese officials over their role in a national security law for Hong Kong as “purely double standards”, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

The office expressed “strong indignation and condemnation” at the U.S. State Department decision to sanction the 14 Vice-Chairpersons of the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature.

BEIJING, Nov 7 (APP): Nearly 200 sets of cultural relics from seven Asian countries including Pakistan went on display at the Hebei Museum in North China’s Hebei Province.

Be Together in the East: Special Exhibition on the Civilization of Ancient Asia displays a total of 190 relics from China, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Syrian Arab Republic, Cambodia, Lebanon and Japan, Global Times reported on Sunday.

One highlight among these cultural artifacts is an underglaze blue porcelain piece featuring Arabic writing.

BEIJING, December 7. /TASS/: Trade turnover between Russia and China in January-November decreased by 3% year-on-year, amounting to $97.38 bln, the General Customs Administration announced on Monday.

According the published data, exports to Russia for 11 months increased by 1.2% and amounted to about $45.36 bln. Imports of Russian goods and services to China decreased by 6.4% to $52.02 bln.

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese probe was orbiting the moon on Monday in preparation for the returning of samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years.

The ascent module of the Chang’e 5 spacecraft transferred a container with 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of samples after docking with the robot spacecraft on Sunday and was then cut free.

BEIJING, Dec 6 (APP): Chinese Defense Minister, Gen. Wei Fenghe’s last week visits to Pakistan and Nepal was of great practical significance for safeguarding the security of border areas of the southwestern China.

HARBIN, Dec 6 (NNN-XINHUA) – A total of 43 people were placed under quarantine, after a frozen-food sample in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province tested positive for COVID-19, local authorities said.

Authorities in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province, launched an emergency response after a third-party inspection agency found a frozen-food sample from a local trading company that tested positive for the virus on Friday.

As of 5.00 p.m. yesterday, 43 close contacts had been quarantined in designated places, and 109 were under observation at home.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Former Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui said on Sunday his local bank accounts appeared to have been frozen after he said he would seek exile in Britain to continue his pro-democratic activities.

Hui told Reuters via the social media Whatsapp that the banks accounts belonging to him, his wife and his parents in Bank of China Hong Kong, HSBC and Hang Seng Bank were frozen. He gave no further details.

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese probe that landed on the moon transferred rocks to an orbiter Sunday in preparation for returning samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years, the space agency announced.

The upper stage of the Change’e lander blasted off Friday from the lunar surface. If the mission succeeds, it will make China the third country after the United States and former Soviet Union to bring moon rocks to Earth.

BEIJING, Dec 5 (APP): A Chinese enterprise in collaboration with a Pakistani partner will market its products as well as set up a gene and cell research and transformation center in Pakistan.

“Initially, Shenyang Biotech and Biomedicine Group will be marketing its products in Pakistan through Dynamic Engineering Automation Group and later on they will establish a research laboratory which will ultimately be transformed into a university,” said Badar Uz Zaman, Commercial Consular, Pakistan Embassy Beijing.

BEIJING, Nov 5 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Moin ul Haque invited enterprises from Macao to explore investment opportunities in Pakistan, especially under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

He made this offer in a meeting with Ms. Wang Dong, Acting Commissioner of the Liaison Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Macao Special Administrative Region.