Biden visit to strengthen Canada’s Pacific-nation credentials
US President Joe Biden arrives in Ottawa on Thursday for an inordinately delayed visit. Conventionally, Canada has generally been the first country to host foreign visits of newly elected American presidents. However, both Donald Trump and Biden have deviated from that norm, of course for very different reasons. Unlike Biden, who last visited Ottawa as […]Continue Reading
Hong Kong bosses in hiring mood and offering higher salaries, as city reopens and visitors return
Two in five executives in Hong Kong expect to increase their headcount this year, according to KPMG’s survey of 1,300 professionals in Hong Kong and mainland China.Continue Reading
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