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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
TopicChina wet markets

Topic: China wet markets

China’s wet markets are no different from European farmers’ markets

Wet markets are an everyday destination for people in China and can be compared to European farmers’ markets.

Australia wants G-20 scrutiny of wildlife wet markets as they’re a risk to human health

G-20 nations have responsibility to use global experts & international organisations to protect humans and farming, Australia says.

Live bird markets are back in China as Chinese like their meat freshly killed

Live animal markets are suspected of being source of coronavirus. But authorities had to let them reopen because people won’t buy meat anywhere else.

Will more people turn to vegetarianism in a post-coronavirus world?

People across the world like Queen guitarist Brian May have sought to link Covid-19 to non-vegetarian diets, saying the pandemic came from “people eating animals”.

Trump’s dance of ‘death’, testing times for the British Queen and Easter at home

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Wuhan is returning to life. So are its controversial wet meat markets

China’s challenge will be how to keep open wet markets while enforcing rules against the live slaughter of animals or sale of wildlife on site.

Animals have come home. Covid-19 lockdown gives control back into nature’s hands

With people in India and elsewhere locked down in homes due to the coronavirus, the peaceful reclamation of public spaces by animals is teaching us important lessons.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.