How TikTok became a US-China national security issue
Depending on whom you ask, the short-form video app TikTok is where you watch goofy dances and makeup tutorials, or it’s a gravely sophisticated threat to US national security. Because TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance – and because China is known to be interested in having its technology companiesContinue Reading
Chinese military says it ‘warned’ US warship to leave South China Sea
BEIJING: The Chinese military said it warned a United States warship to “leave” waters in the disputed South China Sea on Thursday (Mar 23), claims swiftly denied as “false” by American forces. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea – a strategic waterway through which trillions ofContinue Reading
Marion Biotech: India cancels licence of drug maker linked to child deaths in Uzbekistan
Marion Biotech’s cough syrups have been linked to 18 child deaths in Uzbekistan.Continue Reading
China’s social credit system bigger than Big Brother
China’s social credit system is widely viewed in the West as a digital surveillance system to categorize and guide people through reward and punishment. This perception continues despite efforts by scholars to build a morally normalized, rather than ideologically charged, framework to understand the system. The social credit system should be understood as method — […]Continue Reading
Rahul Gandhi: Two-year jail for India’s Congress leader for defamation
The opposition leader was convicted for comments he made in 2019 about PM Narendra Modi’s surname.Continue Reading
Buildings believed to shelter Myanmar resistance groups raided
Authorities detained 83 illegal migrants from Myanmar and seized military equipment and medical supplies during a raid on buildings in Mae Sot district of Tak province on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Hacker, friend nabbed for stealing energy drink prizes
Police on Thursday arrested two men, including a postgraduate student, for allegedly hacking into an energy drink producer’s prize system and withdrawing the prizes through an electronic wallet.Continue Reading
Canada lawmaker denies report of China influence, but exits party
OTTAWA: A Chinese-Canadian lawmaker, cited in unconfirmed media reports as having ties to the Beijing government, forcefully denied those allegations but announced his resignation as a member of the Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau last month denied a media report that the party had been warnedContinue Reading
Singapore’s core inflation unchanged at 5.5% in February
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s core inflation remained unchanged at 5.5 per cent year-on-year in February, official data showed on Thursday (Mar 23). The figure is lower than the forecast in a Reuters poll of economists for a 5.8 per cent increase in February. In January, core inflation had gone up from 5.1 perContinue Reading
Depleted uranium ammo raises nuclear stakes in Ukraine
The British announcement that it will supply depleted uranium (DU) ammunition to Ukraine for its Challenger 2 tanks is not a one-off. It was arranged with the United States and for good reason. The US has found a way to speed up delivery of Abrams M-1 tanks to Russia by using older models. The Abrams 120mm smoothbore gun, like the […]Continue Reading