The Hong Kong Journalists Association said in a statement on Friday (Dec 1) it was “deeply concerned” about the safety and whereabouts of a South China Morning Post reporter who has been unreachable since attending an event in Beijing in late October. Minnie Chan, a senior reporter covering security mattersContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday (Dec 1) asked President Joe Biden’s administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese respiratory illness cases. “We should immediately restrict travel between the United States and (China) until we know more about theContinue Reading
SEOUL: Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7 years, down from 83.6 years in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday (Dec 1), after life expectancy fell in 2022 for the first time since 1970, hit by a spike in deaths linked to COVID-19. FollowingContinue Reading
Meta on Thursday (Nov 30) warned that deceptive online campaigns based in China were taking aim at 2024 elections in the United States and elsewhere. The tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram said it has taken down five coordinated influence networks out of China this year. “Foreign threat actors areContinue Reading
TAIPEI: China’s leadership is too “overwhelmed” with its internal problems to consider an invasion of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with the New York Times. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military pressure against the island over the past fourContinue Reading
TAIPEI: China’s leadership is too “overwhelmed” with its internal problems to consider an invasion of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with the New York Times. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military pressure against the island over the past fourContinue Reading
BEIJING: China on Thursday (Nov 30) hailed the late Henry Kissinger as an “old friend”, paying tribute to a diplomat central to establishing ties between Beijing and Washington. Kissinger, a former US secretary of state whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, diedContinue Reading
UNITED NATIONS: A recent increase in respiratory illnesses in China is a common issue faced by all countries and Chinese authorities have it under effective control, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday (Nov 29). The World Health Organization (WHO) last week requested China provide detailed information on anContinue Reading
Thailand says Palestinian Hamas gunmen from Gaza killed 39 Thais during an Oct 7 rampage into Israel where around 30,000 Thai labourers had been working in the agriculture sector, one of Israel’s largest migrant worker groups. The Thai foreign ministry said three Thais were being treated for wounds in hospital.Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: India will formally investigate security concerns aired by the United States in a warning to New Delhi about its links to a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist leader, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday (Nov 29). The issue comes at a delicate time for both IndiaContinue Reading