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Michael Standaert

Michael Standaert is a freelance journalist based in China, specialising in the environment, technology and business

May 2021

  • People have lunch outside a restaurant near the Pantheon, in the centre of Rome

    Coronavirus live
    Italy records lowest deaths since mid-October; UK could make vaccines mandatory for NHS staff – as it happened

    Latest updates: UK government considering mandatory jabs for health workers; Malaysia to set up more mega vaccination centres
  • Emergency vehicle at night at the market

    The age of extinction
    Covid investigators must interview Wuhan stall owners, says virologist

    Efforts to find origin of coronavirus ‘must look at what animals were in the market in late 2019’
  • Howey Ou

    The young people taking their countries to court over climate inaction

    Children and young adults around the world are demanding action from governments on global heating and the ecological crisis

April 2021

  • Boris Johnson (left) and British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough look at a projection of planet Earth during the launch of the COP26 UN Climate Summit.

    So what has the rest of the world promised to do about climate change?

  • Traffic in a dust storm in Beijing

    China sandstorms highlight threat of climate crisis

March 2021

  • People wear masks to visit Tiananmen square in Beijing. The sun is blue due to dust storms.

    Sandstorms turn sun blue and sky yellow in Beijing

    Thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles blows in from drought-hit Mongolia
  • Smart sport field in Shanghai Nike flagship store - 15 Dec 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (11550635c) A smart sport field is installed inside the Nike NO.1 flagship store, which offers a fashion high-tech experience during the Christmas season in Shanghai, China, 12 December 2020. Smart sport field in Shanghai Nike flagship store - 15 Dec 2020

    Nike and H&M face backlash in China over Xinjiang statements

    Chinese social media condemns statements by the companies as celebrities cancel contracts with brands

    • Animals farmed
      UK urged to ban fur imports from China over animal abuse claims

    • Animals farmed
      Eating up the rainforest: China’s taste for beef drives exports from Brazil

    • Digital citizens
      Smile for the camera: the dark side of China's emotion-recognition tech

February 2021

  • Yaks and sheep graze on grasslands in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Hainan.

    Animals farmed
    Yak politics: Tibetans’ vegetarian dilemma amid China meat boom

    While China pushes for more industrialised farms, Buddhist monks urge now-sedentary nomads to embrace vegetarianism

January 2021

  • A Chinese vet vaccinates a duck at a farmer’s house in a village in Yongchuan, southwest China.

    Animals farmed
    China's new animal health rules alone won't stop zoonotic outbreaks, experts warn

  • A medical worker prepares a dose of Covid vaccine at a community health centre in Qingdao, Shandong province

    New year, new outbreak: China rushes to vaccinate 50 million as holiday looms

  • Milton Keynes hospital in England where Covid-19 patients are given round-the-clock care.

    Coronavirus live
    UK reports nearly 55,000 new infections – as it happened

  • Chinese dissident filmmaker Ai Xiaoming in her home in Wuhan.

    ‘Even mourning is said to shame China’: women of Wuhan fight to be heard

December 2020

  • People on a shopping street in Wuhan on 28 December.

    Wuhan one year on: normality returns, but pain over handling of Covid outbreak endures

    As China’s leadership celebrates national triumph over virus, some residents want an investigation into the start of the pandemic

September 2020

  • Yangxiang’s high-rise pig buildings

    Animals farmed
    A 12-storey pig farm: has China found the way to tackle animal disease?

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping learns about poverty alleviation efforts at an organic day-lily farm in Yunzhou District of Datong City, Shanxi Province in May 2020

    Animals farmed
    Countryside fit for a superpower? Inside China’s colossal rural revamp

August 2020

  • A half-demolished apartment building standing in the middle of a newly-built road thanks to a Chinese couple that refused to move

    Curtains for the nail house? New plan targets China's most defiant homeowners

    New law in Shenzhen means buildings can be developed with 95%, rather than 100%, support from residents – promoting concern over erosion of rights

July 2020

  • Ou Hongyi

    China's first climate striker warned: give it up or you can't go back to school

    Ou Hongyi, who took part in the #FridaysforFuture protest, says she has been told she cannot return to school unless she stops her activism
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