Beijing and Washington are paving the way for Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Both sides are discussing a trip to Washington by Xi’s top economic-policy aide, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, the report said citing people briefed on the matter.Continue Reading
HANOI: A Vietnamese court has sentenced an environmental activist to three years in prison on charges of tax fraud, just days after the government discussed protecting human rights with US President Joe Biden during a state visit. Hoang Thi Minh Hong, director of an environmental advocacy group that she startedContinue Reading
It is China’s first cross-sea, rapid line with bullet trains that will travel over bridges across three coastal bays and hit top speeds of 350km per hour, state media said, citing China State Railway Group, the country’s railway operator. Travel time between Fuzhou and Xiamen, an economic hub and popularContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: The United States is backing a new undersea internet cable connecting several Pacific islands, according to a plan for the project seen by Reuters, boosting Washington’s interests in a region where it is vying for influence with China. The Central Pacific Cable would connect American Samoa with Guam –Continue Reading
Rosselkhoznadzor said it had sent a letter to Japan on the need to hold talks and requesting information on Japan’s radiological testing of exported fish products by Oct 16, including tritium. Japan will scrutinise Tuesday’s announcement by Russia, the top Japanese government spokesperson Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday. Japan saysContinue Reading
The Indian government on Monday (Sep 25) reassured confidence in its digital identification system, Aadhaar, after a Moody’s report last week highlighted concerns about it like establishing authorisation and biometric reliability. India’s ministry of electronics & IT said the Moody’s report “does not cite either primary or secondary data orContinue Reading
“ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR” “We now fear whether Canada will give student visas or if the Indian government will create some hurdles,” said undergraduate Gursimran Singh, 19, who wants to go to Canada. He was speaking at the holiest of Sikh shrines, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, where many students goContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea on Monday (Sep 25) slammed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for criticising its cooperation with Moscow following leader Kim Jong Un’s Russia visit, saying it is “natural” and “normal” for neighbours to keep close relations. Yoon, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly last week, saidContinue Reading
The storming of a north Kosovo monastery has thrown attention on persistent trouble in the ethnic Serbian-majority region 15 years after Pristina declared independence. Here are facts about the unrest. WHAT IS BEHIND THE FRICTION? Independence for ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo came on Feb 17, 2008, almost a decade after aContinue Reading
SHANGHAI: The European Union has no intention to decouple from China but needs to protect itself in situations when its openness is abused, the bloc’s Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Saturday (Sep 23). The bloc posted record bilateral trade with China last year, but it is “very unbalanced”, heContinue Reading