ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s consumer price index (CPI) surged to a multi-decade high of 27.3 per cent in August from a year earlier, government data showed on Thursday (Sep 1), as authorities warn massive flooding in the country could exacerbate already skyrocketing prices. Price rises in staples, including vegetables, wheat and cookingContinue Reading
Most of the curbs are intended to last for a few days for now, although two provincial cities in northern China have extended curbs slightly beyond initial promises. Non-essential sector employees in Chengdu were asked to work from home, and residents were urged not to leave the city unless needed.Continue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s military shot down an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet just off the Chinese coast on Thursday (Sep 1), after the government vowed to take tough new measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions. Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own againstContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, was found guilty of corruption on Thursday (Sep 1). Rosmah, 70, was charged with soliciting RM187.5 million (US$41.9 million) in bribes from contractor Saidi Abang Samsudin in 2016 and 2017 so that his company Jepak Holdings couldContinue Reading
COLOMBO: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about US$2.9 billion, the international lender said in a statement on Thursday (Sep 1). “The objectives of Sri Lanka’s new Fund-supported programme are to restore macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability,” theContinue Reading
BEIJING: A senior Chinese official formerly in charge of investigating corruption within the national security ministry has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and from public office after being found guilty of corruption himself. China’s anti-graft watchdog announced its action against Liu Yanping, 67, on Thursday (Sep 1), theContinue Reading
TOKYO: The former chairman of Tokyo Olympics sponsor Aoki Holdings has told prosecutors he gave 2 million yen (US$14,300) in cash to the head of the Games’ organising committee, former prime minister Yoshiro Mori, the Sankei daily reported. Hironori Aoki, who was arrested last month for suspected bribery involving anotherContinue Reading
SHENZHEN: The particular southern Chinese tech hub Shenzhen tightened COVID-19 curbs as cases continued to mount upon Thursday (Sep 1), with large occasions and indoor amusement suspended for three days in the city’s many populous district, Baoan. At least half of the Shenzhen’s ten districts, house to more than 13Continue Reading
As many young women transfer to creative professions, stigma and cultural norms are being shattered
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PATRIOTIC CLASSROOMS China is remoulding once outspoken Hong Kong in its own authoritarian image, following enormous and sometimes chaotic democracy protests in 2019 in which young people played a key component. Teachers have got since been ordered to instil patriotism in students and comply with a Beijing-imposed national security legislationContinue Reading