The training was organised by the Japanese government, in conjunction with the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC). Oum Phumro, deputy director of the centre, said the training would be ongoing. “In Cambodia, we train them for one week and then we continue training them via online and preparing procedures forContinue Reading
MAYIDUI, China: COVID-19 swept swiftly through southern China’s rural mountain villages last month, and the wave appears to have subsided – supporting expert theories that the country’s most recent outbreak preceded the lifting of restrictions. China abruptly abandoned its zero-COVID policy in early December, and the explosion in cases thatContinue Reading
TAIPEI: A retired Taiwanese rear admiral and a former lawmaker have been detained for allegedly violating the island’s national security law, a court said Thursday (Jan 19), in the latest spying scandal to hit the military’s upper echelons. Hsia Fu-hsiang, who served as deputy head of the Navy’s political warfareContinue Reading
In China, most people have never been exposed to the coronavirus. China’s vaccines rely on an older technology producing fewer antibodies than mRNA vaccines. Given those realities, Dr Gagandeep Kang, who studies viruses at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, said it remains to be seen if the virusContinue Reading
BANGKOK: Three more bodies have been recovered from the waters after a Thai warship went down in the Gulf of Thailand a week ago, the kingdom’s navy said Sunday (Dec 25). The HTMS Sukhothai sank on Dec 18 roughly 37km off Thailand’s southeastern coast, with a massive rescue operation managingContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s military said it had conducted “strike drills” in the sea and airspace around Taiwan on Sunday (Dec 25) in response to unspecified “provocation” from the democratically-governed island and the United States. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained of repeated Chinese military activity nearby overContinue Reading
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping wants China to accelerate efforts to achieve self-reliance in agricultural technology, identifying seed development and core equipment among areas to focus on, state media reported. The central leadership had said in 2020 that the country’s seed industry was a weak link in the food chain andContinue Reading
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: A broken-down boat carrying 57 Rohingya refugees landed on Indonesia’s western coast on Sunday (Dec 25) after a month at sea, police said. Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives each year on long, expensive sea journeys – often inContinue Reading
“MOST DANGEROUS WEEKS” “China is entering the most dangerous weeks of the pandemic,” said a research note from Capital Economics. “The authorities are making almost no efforts now to slow the spread of infections and, with the migration ahead of Lunar New Year getting started, any parts of the countryContinue Reading
BEIJING: Rescuers were working Sunday (Dec 25) to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, state media reported. A total of 40 people were working underground at the mine in Yining county, about 100km from the border with Kazakhstan, at theContinue Reading