UNESCO, LGBTQ+, EV supply chains
Cambodian conservation sites seek UNESCO status, Singapore allows gay sex but not marriage, Indonesia’s coal-fired electric vehicle manufacturing.
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India playing its own Taiwan card on China
Somewhat surprisingly, India took ten days to comment on US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and the ensuing large-scale live-fire drills launched by China. On August 12, New Delhi stated that it sought a “de-escalation of tensions.” Then on August 28, New Delhi accused Beijing of militarizing the Taiwan Strait through its High […]
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Fire breaks out at Woodlands Industrial Park, more than 100 people evacuated
SINGAPORE: A fire involving a large pile of recycling waste broke out at Woodlands Industrial Park on Saturday (Sep 17) morning. Firefighters were called to 66 Woodlands Industrial Park at about 8.40am on Saturday morning, where a pile of recycling waste measuring about 100m by 100m and 8m in highContinue Reading
Why Xi really traveled to Central Asia
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, Chinese President Xi Jinping has left China to visit Kazakhstan and then Uzbekistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. This is in contrast to previous reports of Xi’s potential travel to Saudi Arabia or speculation that Xi’s first foreign travel would be to Indonesia for the G20 summit. Besides China, the SCO […]
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For Donald Trump, information has always been power
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Ever since the FBI came out of Mar-a-Lago last month with box after box of documents, some of them highly sensitive and classified, questions have wafted over the criminal investigation: Why did former President Donald Trump sneak off with the stash to begin […]
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Pipeline politics prominent at SCO summit
Negotiations to build a new pipeline designed to transport annually 50 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia to China through Mongolia are expected to close soon after the three countries’ leaders met in Uzbekistan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh held a face-to-face meeting in Samarkand on […]
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764 new Covid inpatients, 14 more deaths
The country registered 764 new inpatients admitted to hospitals plus 14 more Covid-19 related fatalities, the particular Ministry of Community Health reported upon Saturday.Continue Reading
From ‘The Queen’ to ‘The Crown,’ five productions that brought Queen Elizabeth’s life to the screen
The musical legacy of Queen Elizabeth II will not only want to be employed history books, employing the many films not to mention television series that have been driven by her life story.Continue Reading
Cheetah: World’s fastest cat returns to India after 70 years
A group of eight cats is due to appear from Namibia within the occasion of EVENING Narendra Modi’s birthday celebration.Continue Reading
‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Broadway’s longest-running show, announces final curtain call in 2023
Broadway’s longest-running show, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera, ” will play the final five months before closing the doors for good, a spokesperson for the display told CNN Fri.Continue Reading