MI5, FBI chiefs warn over China within rare joint address

LONDON: The mind of MI5 as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned upon Wednesday (Jul 6) about China’s industrial espionage thrust on the western part of the country, in a rare joint address at the Uk intelligence service’s London headquarters. Speaking to an market of officials and businessContinue Reading

US counterintelligence warns of China stepping up impact operations

WASHINGTON: A US counterintelligence company on Wednesday (Jul 6) warned state and local officials that China is accelerating influence operations targeted at manipulating them directly into pressing the federal government to pursue more Beijing-friendly policies. China “understands that will US state plus local leaders have a degree of independence fromContinue Reading

Northern Korea's Kim convenes conference for conditioning 'monolithic' party rule

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a good unprecedented conference targeted at strengthening the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea’s (WPK) “monolithic” leadership across culture, state media documented on Thursday (Jul 7). The conference was your first of its type and involved “realising the organisational and ideological consolidation fromContinue Reading

Pakistan climbing season reaches new heights

SKARDU: Pakistan is experiencing a bumper climbing season with close to 1, 400 foreign mountaineers bidding to scale its high peaks – including hundreds on the 6, 611m K2, the world’s second greatest. “It is a record amount, ” Raja Nasir Ali Khan, tourism minister of Gilgit-Baltistan region, told AFP.Continue Reading