BEIJING: China will persist with its COVID-19 policies to avoid losing control over local coronavirus outbreaks, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party warned in a commentary for the third straight day. “Lying flat is not to be advised, and to win (the COVID-19 battle) while lying flat isContinue Reading
The bloc is becoming increasingly important to the country’s national interests, but South China Sea tensions post a threat to unity
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TAIPEI: Taiwan is bolstering its defences and steeling itself for the possibility of war with China as leader Xi Jinping readies to assume a third term in power and tries to achieve what no predecessor has done by taking control of the island. Xi has made no secret of hisContinue Reading
The foiled Jemaah Islamiyah attack in Singapore was a wake-up call that global terrorism could strike Southeast Asia. The 2002 Bali bombings were horrific proof that such fears were well founded, says the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies’ Kumar Ramakrishna.Continue Reading
Oct 12 marks the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings. In the final part of a series, CNA revisits ground zero and looks at how it has changed.Continue Reading
Oct 12 marks the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings. In the third part of a series, CNA looks at how local victims are coping with their physical and emotional scars.Continue Reading
LONDON: China’s growing technological dominance “is an increasingly urgent problem” for Western countries, who must act to defend their values and influence, the director of Britain’s GCHQ spy agency warned on Tuesday (Oct 11). In a speech to the RUSI defence think-tank in London, Jeremy Fleming said “technology has becomeContinue Reading
The Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), waged a years-long insurgency there that ended with a major military crackdown in 2014. But there has been a resurgence in unrest since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in Kabul last year. The TTP has claimed dozens of attacks inContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: A special meeting to discuss and set important dates for Malaysia’s 15th general election and the state by-election for Bugaya in Sabah will be held on Oct 20, Bernama reported on Tuesday (Oct 11). Election Commission (EC) secretary Ikmalrudin Ishak said that the meeting, which will be chairedContinue Reading
20 years after the Bali bombings on Oct 12, 2002, victims recounted the attacks, the ordeal they went through and the psychological and physical scars they bear to this day. Continue Reading