MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (Aug 16) accused Washington of seeking to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and of fuelling conflicts elsewhere in the world, including with the visit of United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. “The situation in Ukraine shows that the US is trying toContinue Reading
Earlier in the day, the court also unanimously rejected Najib Razak’s bid to introduce new evidence in the graft case linked to 1MDB.Continue Reading
Upon Jul 28, 2020, the High Court discovered Najib Razak guilty of misappropriating funds from SRC International, an ex subsidiary of 1MDB.Continue Reading
SHANGHAI: Regions that depend on the Yangtze, China’s longest river, are having to deploy penis pumps and cloud-seeding rockets as a long drought depletes water ranges and threatens plants, and a heatwave is set to last another two weeks. The Yangtze’s middle and lower gets to have faced temps inContinue Reading
The annual State from the Nation Address had been delivered with all people of parliament gathering for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.Continue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan accused China of exaggeration and “tricks” on Tuesday (Aug 16) after the Chinese military published video of the strategically located Penghu islands where there is really a major Taiwanese air flow base. China, which promises Taiwan as its area, has carried out military exercises across the island thisContinue Reading
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka: A Chinese research vessel bristling with antennas and communication gear docked at Sri Lanka’s Chinese-run port of Hambantota on Tuesday (Aug 16) despite concerns from India and the United States about its alleged spying activities. The Yuan Wang 5 entered the deep-sea port after securing permission toContinue Reading
COLOMBO: The Chinese survey vessel Yuan Wang 5 has docked at Sri Lanka’s Chinese-built Hambantota port, Refinitiv data and nearby media showed upon Tuesday (Aug 16). The particular ship has been a bone fragments of contention between India and Tiongkok, two of Sri Lanka’s biggest benefactors in its current economicContinue Reading
BEIJING: Chinese lithium center Sichuan province will ration electricity supply to factories until Saturday (Aug 20), state mass media reported, as a heatwave sends power needs soaring and dries up reservoirs. Temperatures in the province – house to nearly 84 million people – have hovered over 40 to 42 degreesContinue Reading
LIVING GOES ON Kinmen is a former battleground where inhabitants had to contend with periodic shelling from Chinese language artillery into the past due 1970s. But the islets opened up in order to tourists in 1993 and have never appeared back. Wartime relics and ancient monuments of its militarised pastContinue Reading