https://www.scmp.com/rss/505538/feed Luo Ruiyao is a freelance journalist covering South Asian social issues and politics. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Qiu, a Chinese mechanical engineer based in India’s southern city of Bangalore, developed a high fever and lost his sense of taste and smell last week. He suspects he has Covid-19 but amid India’s surging outbreak that has overwhelmed hospitals, Qiu has not been able to get a Covid-19 test. The 33-year-old is among several hundred Chinese nationals still in India, most of them either working for large companies or married to Indians. Several among the community are understood to have tested... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3131305/chance-make-peace-chinese-toughing-out-indias?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3131305/chance-make-peace-chinese-toughing-out-indias?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:00:10 +0000 It was the evening of the second day of Lunar New Year, and at the only Chinese school in Kolkata, the sound of drumming filled the air. Soon, the heady beat was joined by crashing cymbals and a gong, as costumed performers leapt from pole to pole in a traditional Chinese lion dance. Onlookers whooped and cheered as they watched the colourful spectacle, but after the 20-minute show at the Pei Mei Chinese high school was over, the man behind it all did not look entirely satisfied. “We made some... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3122535/save-last-lion-dance-indias-kolkata-ethnic-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3122535/save-last-lion-dance-indias-kolkata-ethnic-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Feb 2021 07:00:22 +0000 Medical student Ahmed Suhail, 22, returned to India on an evacuation flight from Wuhan, China, last February when the coronavirus broke out and the city was placed under complete lockdown. A year after, he wishes he had chosen to stay put. Suhail, who comes from the southern Indian city of Vellore, in Tamil Nadu state, had been studying medicine at Wuhan University since 2015. Had it not been for the Covid-19 pandemic, he was on track to graduate in June 2021, after which he planned to return to... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3121559/takeusbacktochina-plea-indian-medical-students?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3121559/takeusbacktochina-plea-indian-medical-students?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:00:13 +0000 Yang, a Chinese national working in Singapore for more than a decade, usually flies back to her hometown of Wuhan in central China every year to celebrate the Lunar New Year with her family. But this is the second straight year she will give her annual pilgrimage a miss. “It is a very sad feeling to not be able to ring in the new year with my family and friends back home,” said the 29-year-old, who works in the education industry. “And it’s worse not knowing when I can see them next.” Last year,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3121324/lunar-new-year-chinese-left-trapped-and-helpless?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3121324/lunar-new-year-chinese-left-trapped-and-helpless?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:27 +0000 Siva Kumar, 27, has spent the past four years working an array of roles, from designer to operations manager, for Chinese e-commerce companies in India. But all that changed in late April when he lost his job after the company he was working for decided to exit India’s IT hub of Bangalore, due to global logistics disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic and rising anti-China sentiment as the nuclear-powered neighbours remain locked in a stand-off at their Himalayan border. “Now I have decided to... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3115355/indian-tech-workers-seek-lifelines-chinese-firms-exit-amid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3115355/indian-tech-workers-seek-lifelines-chinese-firms-exit-amid?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Dec 2020 05:00:08 +0000 When William Li arrived in India in early January for a three-month business trip, he never expected he would still be stranded there some seven months later – or that his return journey to East China would take almost seven times longer than his outbound flight. The 38-year-old supply chain manager for a multinational manufacturing company is among the hundreds of Chinese nationals who became stranded in India when international travel ground to a halt in March amid the coronavirus... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3098637/stranded-chinese-india-are-going-home-europe-almost-10?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3098637/stranded-chinese-india-are-going-home-europe-almost-10?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Aug 2020 01:00:44 +0000 For six months now, Naresh Subnani’s textile company in Shaoxing city, in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, has not received any orders. Few people have also been dining at his award-winning Indian-Chinese restaurant in the same city since the coronavirus outbreak began. The 38-year-old businessman is among thousands of Indian nationals in China dealing with economic woes amid the pandemic – and with ties between New Delhi and Beijing at a new low following a deadly border clash last... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3091702/china-and-india-quarrel-stranded-families-get-caught-between?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3091702/china-and-india-quarrel-stranded-families-get-caught-between?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:47:19 +0000 After being stuck alone in a flat in the southern Indian city of Bangalore for three months and in India for about 130 days, Chinese marketing professional Wang Mingtao will fly to Chongqing this week and is looking forward to finally being able to hug his two children when he returns to Jiangsu province after completing his quarantine. The 37-year-old is among an estimated 1,000 Chinese citizens booked on five chartered flights bound for China between June 8 and 12 as Beijing continues to... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3088027/china-evacuates-citizens-india-one-dad-cannot-wait-see-his?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3088027/china-evacuates-citizens-india-one-dad-cannot-wait-see-his?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:00:08 +0000 China is making plans to evacuate its citizens from India, with chartered flights taking place from early next month as the country grapples with a rise in Covid-19 infections from migrant labourers returning to their hometowns. The Chinese embassy in New Delhi posted a statement on its website and WeChat messaging account on Monday, telling citizens to sign up for the flights by Wednesday, May 27. The notice, in Mandarin, said students, tourists and temporary business visitors “who have... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3086184/china-offers-flights-evacuate-citizens-coronavirus-hit-india?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3086184/china-offers-flights-evacuate-citizens-coronavirus-hit-india?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 May 2020 14:57:14 +0000 Every winter, Du Fengyan leaves his home in Beijing to take a trip. The 35-year-old works as a technical assistant in the film and documentary division at a government university, so the end-of-year holidays are the only time he gets to travel. Du has been to countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East over the past decade, not to mention a 35,000km bicycle journey from China to Africa. But a recent trip to India turned what should have been an adventure into an experience of racial... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3079620/coronavirus-india-traveller-china-faces-xenophobia-and-hardship?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3079620/coronavirus-india-traveller-china-faces-xenophobia-and-hardship?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:08:49 +0000