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Wednesday, September 3, 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

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.