GENEVA: A UN committee said on Monday (Mar 6) it was concerned about China’s treatment of its Muslim minority, including the use of forced labour against Uyghurs, in a sweeping report that adds pressure on Beijing to improve its human rights record. The findings by the group of UN-appointed independentContinue Reading
In early February 2023, the son of Japan’s former defense minister Nobuo Kishi, Nobuchiyo Kishi announced that he would run for a parliamentary seat. He will inherit the electoral constituency of his father, who announced his retirement from politics only days before. Nobuchiyo is a classic example of the hereditary politics still entrenched in Japan’s political […]Continue Reading
Beijing has stepped up the pace of its efforts to build its own artificial intelligence chatbots as Chinese news media express fears the United States will use ChatGPT to brainwash Chinese people. Since the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT last November, many Chinese companies have announced their plans to launch their chatbots in 2023. Chinese […]Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Builder Or Kim Peow Contractors has been awarded S$43 million following arbitration proceedings against CPG Consultants over a Pan Island Expressway (PIE) viaduct that collapsed midway through construction in 2017. The incomplete viaduct collapsed in the early hours of Jul 14, 2017, with 11 workers on top of it, injuring 10 of them andContinue Reading
Regulations were updated after an outcry over gene-edited babies but a leading expert says they don’t go far enough.Continue Reading
Kenyan traders accuse a Chinese-owned outlet of undercutting them and threatening their livelihoods.Continue Reading
SAMUT PRAKAN: A woman was stabbed to death after she ran naked into a ditch to escape a man who had set her on fire in Bang Pu area on Monday afternoon.Continue Reading
Russia’s failure in its invasion of Ukraine has weakened Moscow’s old ties with India, for decades a bedrock of Indian foreign relations, and brought to the fore the most complicated geopolitical puzzle of the “new Cold War” — between India, China and the United States. New Delhi is shifting its position between the other two, […]Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: At least 168 people were cheated in the past month while trying to buy expensive and seasonal food items online, the police said on Monday (Mar 6). Since February, a total of at least S$20,000 has been lost to scammers advertising items like seafood, black gold musang king durian, cherries and wagyuContinue Reading
JAKARTA: At least 10 people have died in the Indonesian region of Natuna on Monday (Mar 6) after a landslide buried houses amid heavy rainfall, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said. Junainah, a disaster official in Riau Islands province, said the number of fatalities may rise and that communications inContinue Reading