China locks down 34 cities for a smidgen of Covid cases

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In the latest flex of China’s economy-killing “zero Covid” policy, at least 34 cities are now partially or completely locked down after a total of 6,696 cases were identified across the country of 1.4 billion earlier this month. Tianjin municipal city and provincial cities including Sichuan’s Chengdu, Tibet’s Lhasa, Qinghai’s Xining, Xinjiang’s Urumqi, Henan’s Shijiazhuang, […]

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China logs hottest August since records began

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BEIJING: China has logged its hottest August since records began, state media reported Tuesday (Sep 6), following an unusually intense summer heatwave that parched rivers, scorched crops and triggered isolated blackouts. Southern China last month sweltered under what experts said may have been one of the worst heatwaves in globalContinue Reading

Breaking down Cambodia’s naval base controversy

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Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base — a facility in the Gulf of Thailand — has in recent years been the subject of interest from major powers competing for influence in Southeast Asia. China’s efforts to access the base first surfaced in July 2019 after the Wall Street Journal reported an alleged agreement allowing the Chinese military to use […]

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2 public entertainment outlets on Middle Road suspected of providing hostessing services, 31 people arrested

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SINGAPORE: Two public entertainment outlets along Middle Road were found to have allegedly provided hostessing services during an enforcement operation on Saturday (Sep 3), resulting in 31 people arrested. Twenty-nine women were suspected of providing hostessing services, and they were arrested for working without a valid work permit, said police in aContinue Reading

UK’s Truss likely to pick a fight with China

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On September 5, 2022, members of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party chose the next prime minister. Liz Truss defeated her rival Rishi Sunak in a vote of 160,000 or so party members. For years, China was a near irrelevance in UK politics. That changed when a range of crises raised China’s profile in a highly […]

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Taiwan removes Singapore, Malaysia from initial list of countries eligible for visa-free entry

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SINGAPORE: Taiwan has removed Singapore, Malaysia and a host of other countries from an initial list of nations announced as eligible for visa-free entry starting next week. On Monday (Sep 5), a table published online by Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs showed that visitors from Singapore and Malaysia among other countries wereContinue Reading