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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.