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The Guardian says the cost of household goods such as toys, furniture and clothing is rising by the fastest rate in more than 15 years as the impact of the war in Ukraine combines with Covid lockdowns in China.

The Guardian says Beijingers were flooding supermarkets to stock up on food on Monday, hoping to avoid Shanghai-style shortages in the case of a city-wide lockdown as the capital records a growing number of Covid infections.

The Daily Express says CHINA has for the first time publicly demonstrated the launch of its deadly new hypersonic anti-ship missile – said to be designed to target aircraft carriers – in what experts believe is meant as a warning to the US Navy.

Three people have officially died from Covid-19 Shanghai has confirmed, after a recent outbreak plunged the megacity into a weeks-long lockdown.

Aljazeera says Shanghai has eased a punishing citywide lockdown that it imposed to break a surge in cases that is the biggest test of China’s two-year strategy to stamp out the disease wherever it appears.

France24 says Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam announced Monday that she will step down in June ending a five-year term in office.

Aljazeera says China’s biggest lockdown since the pandemic began is testing Beijing’s pledge to minimise the economic fallout of its strict “dynamic Zero COVID” strategy.

Aljazeera says China will allow local and foreign investors access to more sectors of the economy after cutting its so-called negative list for market access.

Burnt wreckage and charred personal belongings have been found at the site of the plane crash in southern China, according to rescuers at the site.

The Guardian says China has locked down an industrial city of 9 million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases, as the nation’s “zero-Covid” strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave.