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As Chinese health officials push a campaign to get older citizens vaccinated against COVID-19, many have concerns about side effects and are refusing to get the shots.

Chinese officials said Tuesday that the country will resume issuing passports and visas in another large step toward winding down the country's "zero COVID" policy. The move could potentially mean a massive wave of Chinese tourists will go abroad for the first time in more than a year, especially ahead of the upcoming Chinese New Year in January, which The Associated Press noted is normally the country's biggest traveling season.  This marks a rapid change in the government's handling of overseas travel, as China has largely isolated itself from the rest of the world since the pandemic's outbreak. Bloomberg reported that China had not...

This has been a year of wild — and sometimes unpredictable — weather, with extreme events hitting all corners of the world. A ferocious winter storm slammed much of the United States over Christmas weekend, with parts of Western New York under blizzard conditions for several days. The "bomb cyclone" storm stretched from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, bringing with it snow, high winds, and frigid temperatures. On Dec. 23, nearly 1 million people in the South, Midwest, and East Coast were without power, and about two-thirds of the U.S. population was under a winter weather warning or advisory....

The luxury retail sector is expecting more Chinese tourists after three years of pandemic restrictions. China announced Monday (Dec. 26) that it will lift international travel restrictions in January. This will allow the return of Chinese tourism, which is the world’s largest source of tourist spending, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Dec. 27). These tourists also account for a large share of purchases of luxury goods. In the pre-pandemic year of 2018, Chinese consumers purchased about one-third of the world’s luxury goods, according to a Tuesday (Dec. 27) WSJ report, which cited research by Bain & Co. As...

Suspended Animation ‘Vacation Week’ Extra “No animals were harmed during the making of this film. Although, some were erased and had to be redrawn.” One of the closing credits to the animated feature Cats Don’t Dance (1997). Turner Feature Animation was spun off from the feature film division of Hanna-Barbera Productions but was later merged into Warner Brothers Feature Animation just as production was being finished on Cats Don’t Dance resulting in the film not receiving much promotion when it was originally released. The Los Angeles Times stated that only fifteen people (that included a family of five) attended the...