NEW DELHI: An apple farmer, an airline caterer and an out-of-work graduate are among the Indian nationals hired by Moscow, with the help of recruiters around the world, for the Russian army in Ukraine. Two years into the war tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, andContinue Reading
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, a conduit for more than US$3 trillion in annual ship commerce. Its territorial claims overlap with those of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. “What we are seeing at the Scarborough Shoal now is likely the beginning of Beijing’s pushback against Manila’sContinue Reading
BEIJING: China firmly opposes the United States imposing sanctions on Chinese enterprises for Russia-related reasons, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Monday (Feb 26). China will take necessary measures to firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, the ministry said in a statement on its website. TheContinue Reading
Anti-Muslim hate speech in India rose by 62 per cent in the second half of 2023 compared to the first six months of the year, a Washington-based research group said on Monday (Feb 26), adding the Israel-Gaza war played a key role in the last three months. India Hate LabContinue Reading
“Our government is committed to fulfil every resolve related to the welfare of our farmer brothers and sisters across the country,” Modi posted on X on Thursday, and referred to a cabinet decision on Wednesday to raise the floor price that mills must pay for sugar cane by 8 perContinue Reading
The last remaining pandas in the United States, currently at a zoo in the southern city of Atlanta, are due to return to China by late 2024. But after a meeting last year with US President Joe Biden, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said that China could send new pandas asContinue Reading
BEIJING: A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed. The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromisedContinue Reading
The report comes after China’s population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023 with the number of new births dropping to around half of that in 2016. An increasing number of women are opting not to have children due high childcare costs, and an unwillingness to marry or putContinue Reading
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s population rose 0.4 per cent to 7.50 million in 2023, boosted by a net inflow of returning residents and people on residential schemes, the government said, as the financial hub marked its second year of population growth since the pandemic. The increase of 30,500 people fromContinue Reading
ISLAMABAD : Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Tuesday (Feb 20) that his party had reached an agreement with the largest party in the country’s national assembly to form a coalition government. The agreement between Bhutto Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)Continue Reading