Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Global digital governance can start in Asia An economic cooperation agenda should be developed around shared and common interests in digital trade facilitation.East Asia Forum33 minutes ago Monitoring… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Chinese coronavirus vaccines have low effectiveness, country’s top disease control official says In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control… Read More ›
China has drilled deep in the South China Sea to retrieve sediment core from the seabed, state media reported on Thursday, amid tensions over disputed waters with rival claimants Taiwan and the Philippines, as well as with the United States…. Read More ›
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia’s Positive Stock Outlook Is Clouded by Chinese Selloff The allure of Asian stocks is fading after beating global peers last year.Bloomberg1 hour ago Asian companies turn to… Read More ›
As the United States vacates some of the foreign outposts, China is moving in to fill up the vacuum at a fast pace. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s latest visit to the Middle East is an indication in that direction…. Read More ›
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Women subjected to ‘racist and demeaning’ Asian fetishes on dating apps speak out Online dating for Asian women can be a minefield of “racist and demeaning” messages from… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘Ridiculous’: China’s powerful rebuke to ‘hypocritical’ Aussies Chinese media has slammed the Australian government for what it has described as a hypocritical take on racism.Yahoo News Australia13 hours… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia’s rising coronavirus cases a worry as vaccine doubts cloud campaigns Singapore (Reuters) – India, South Korea and Thailand faced mounting coronavirus infections on Thursday, undermining cautious hopes… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China is antagonising Taiwan. How will the United States and Australia respond? The clock is ticking. Taiwan and mainland China are seemingly on a collision course, a flashpoint… Read More ›
Home | News | China China Allows People to Pay Respects at Grave of Cultural Revolution Leader Jiang Qing The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allowed public access to the grave of Jiang Qing, former member of the Gang… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia shares loiter as S&P futures climb Asian share markets have lagged as US stock futures nudged to another record high after the Federal Reserve underlined its commitment… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘We will respond in kind’: China’s ambassador warns Australia not to join Xinjiang sanctions Cheng Jingye hosted a media event at his residence in Canberra that included a… Read More ›
On an unseasonably warm autumn day last October, the world’s largest coal-fired power plant fired up in the Anhui provincial city of Huaibei in eastern China. Sitting in an economic development zone carved out of verdant paddy fields, phase two… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘As safe as we can’: Victoria’s hotel quarantine system to accept 106 travellers on Thursday More than 100 overseas travellers will arrive in Melbourne on Thursday and be… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘Do not get involved’: China cautions Japan ahead of US-Japan summit China’s foreign minister has cautioned Japan against teaming up with the United States to counter China, ah…9News15… Read More ›
China’s retaliation against European and British lawmakers who sanctioned the communist regime for its treatment of the Uyghur minority is a test of free speech in Europe, contends Soeren Kern, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute. Beijing contends the… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about Asia from around the world (past 24 hours) Asia-Pacific stocks mixed; RBA interest rate decision ahead Markets in Hong Kong are closed on Tuesday for a holiday.CNBC1 hour ago KKR raises $15bn for largest Asia fund… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing’s two voices in telecommunications External Chinese government and commercial messaging on information technology (IT) speaks in one voice. Domestically, one hears… Read More ›
China looks worse and worse in the public eye. H&M closures have drawn more Western attention. Chinese ads showing a purportedly happy Xinjiang backfired among Facebook staff. The Philippines are evermore concerned about a swelling number of Chinese militia boats… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australia wants to work with China to ensure peace in Indo-Pacific, says Dutton Defence Minister Peter Dutton says the federal government wants to work “collaboratively” with China to… Read More ›
Out of the kindness of their heart, China has volunteered to the World Health Organization (WHO) that they would be happy to build a system used worldwide to track travelers who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. According to… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s Hong Kong crackdown was decades in the making After completing negotiations to hand back Hong Kong to China, British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, recorded in her diary… Read More ›
Few Americans realize it, but their country’s dominance in high-tech innovation is now in question. This is something that Google’s former chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt, acknowledged in his recent testimony before Congress. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has stated that China… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australia Is About to Join the US Sanctions Fight on China “China stop genocide of Uyghurs,” read the banners held aloft by protesters outside the Chinese consulate in… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Chinese ‘militia’ ships spark concern after ‘swarming’ disputed South China Sea More than 250 Chinese vessels have been spotted near six islands and reefs in the disputed South… Read More ›
Chinese lenders have used legal contracts to give them a hidden advantage over other creditors when lending to low-income countries, in a trend which threatens to undermine global debt relief efforts, according to research. Many of the contract terms were… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australians flagged in Shanghai security files which shed light on China’s surveillance state and monitoring of Uyghurs The identities of more than 160 Australian citizens — including a… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) The cost of speaking up against China Uyghurs abroad describe a pattern of harassment and intimidation they say is designed to silence them.BBC News1 hour ago China Escalates… Read More ›
Beijing and sweeping tracts of northern China suffered dangerous levels of air pollution last weekend when another sandstorm hit the region. The capital city’s squares and skyscrapers were barely visible as the second sandstorm in a month kept people off… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China pressures brands to reject reports of Xinjiang abuses China stepped up pressure on foreign shoe and clothing brands to reject reports of abuses in Xinjiang.9News2 hours ago… Read More ›
China’s adversaries face a tightly closing decision. America needs to decide whether it can keep playing the role of the world-cop with only its B-game, or if it is ready to bust out its A-game not seen since FDR. More… Read More ›
China generated 53% of the world’s total coal-fired power in 2020, nine percentage points more that five years earlier, despite climate pledges and the building of hundreds of renewable energy plants, a global data study showed on Monday.Slideshow ( 3… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China sanctions US, Canadian officials in escalation over Xinjiang China has announced new sanctions against US and Canadian officials in a growing political and economic feud over its… Read More ›
China’s J-16 multi-role fighter jet is flawless and is much superior to other similar aircraft including, the Su-30, revealed a pilot who has experience flying it as well as other types of aircraft. The J-16 has been a frequent flyer… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Iran and China sign 25-year cooperation agreement Foreign ministers from China and Iran, which are both subject to sanctions by the United States, sign a landmark 25-year cooperation… Read More ›
Swedish fast-fashion giant H&M has shuttered at one of its shops in Urumqi, the capital of China’s far-west Xinjiang autonomous region, as local pressure mounts against Western criticism and sanctions against Beijing’s policies towards the region’s Muslim Uighur population. In… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s Communist Party wants its citizens to know about the world’s human rights abuses. Just not its own From flexing its considerable commercial muscle with boycotts to mercilessly… Read More ›
Like many nations, Paraguay faces an uphill battle to procure coronavirus vaccines. But its quest is being complicated by fraught relations between China on one side, and Taiwan and the U.S. on the other. The Paraguayan government has been approached… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Why is the West so sceptical of China’s vaccines? While China’s failure to allow its trial results to be peer-reviewed has fuelled concerns in health circles, geopolitics experts… Read More ›
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is stepping up policies in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, where protests erupted last year over plans to phase out Mongolian-medium teaching in schools, targeting the region’s ethnic Mongolians with TV shows emphasising… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s ‘blatant coercion’ of Australia is a lesson for the world, says Antony Blinken Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has singled out China’s “blatant economic coercion… Read More ›
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this month gave the green light to a massive hydroelectric power project on the Yarlung Zangbo River in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, sparking concerns over potentially catastrophic environmental effects to come. The project is… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australian hay growers brace for China hit as export permits lapse amid trade tensions Farmers are under pressure to pivot to different crops amid signs hay growers could… Read More ›
The Philippines urged China on Sunday to recall more than 200 Chinese boats it said had been spotted at a reef in the South China Sea, saying the presence of the vessels violated its maritime rights as it claims ownership… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) EU, US, UK, Canada target China officials over Uyghur abuses The European Union, Britain, Canada and the United States have launched coordinated sanctions against officials in China over… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘Provocative action’: Hundreds of Chinese vessels in South China Sea alarms Philippines The Philippines urges China to recall more than 200 Chinese boats spotted at a reef in… Read More ›
At least five important points can be noted beyond the hostile exchange of words between the two sides during the Alaska meeting (BBC 2021 March 20 ‘US and China trade angry words at high-level Alaska talks’). First, Yang Jiechi, the… Read More ›
Once China establishes a lunar research station, its astronauts will stay on the moon for long periods of time as they conduct scientific studies, state media reported on Sunday, citing the architect of China’s lunar programme. China has mapped out… Read More ›
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) The US and China are preparing for war — and Australia is caught in the crosshairs China is becoming more aggressive in tone and actions, while the US… Read More ›
Building on the tasteful piece written recently by Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic, this article will endeavour to explore further why the Tromsø Convention (Norwegian International Convention on Access to Official Documents)[1], although adopted more than a decade ago, is in fact deserving… Read More ›
