China conducts military drill ahead of Tibetan Uprising Day
Ahead of Tibetan Uprising Day, China conducted a major military drill near Tibet bordering India.
Authorities in the Shigatse Military Division “conducted a combat readiness exercise under the background of real combat” close to the politically sensitive anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of March 10, 1959, according to Chinese state media.
Kenya’s presidential candidate rejects electoral results
Kenya’s presidential candidate and leader of Azimio La Umoja coalition party Raila Odinga on Tuesday rejected the results announced by the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
“The figures announced by Mr.Chebukati are null and void and must be quashed by a court of law,” said Raila Odinga while addressing the press on...
China-Australia Relations Hit New Low Over Military, Politics, Science
SAN FRANCISCO —
Australia's already cool relations with China have declined again during the past few weeks over a new spate of incidents, experts in the Asia Pacific say.
Canberra announced Thursday it would add military personnel to work more closely with allies despite China's objections in late 2021. In February...
WHO says China’s zero-COVID strategy unsustainable
China’s zero-COVID strategy to defeat the pandemic is not sustainable, the head of the World Health Organization has said, in a rare public criticism by the UN agency on a government’s handling of the coronavirus.
Draconian measures have trapped most of Shanghai’s 25 million people at home for weeks as China tries to stamp out...
NATO mulls how to define China: ‘Systemic challenge’ or worse?
NATO’s first new strategy concept in a decade will cite China as a concern for the first time, but member states remain at odds over how to describe the country with the world’s largest military and Beijing’s relationship with Russia, NATO diplomats say.
Both a summit of the G7 rich industrial democracies now under way in...
Chinese national sentenced to U.S. prison after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets
A Chinese national has been sentenced to 29 months in prison after pleading guilty in January to conspiring to steal trade secrets from agricultural company Monsanto to benefit the Chinese government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
Xiang Haitao, 44, who was employed by Monsanto and a subsidiary from 2008 to 2017, had...
‘Like Wuhan all over again’: As Shanghai protests, China censors
April was, by all accounts, a cruel month for the residents of Shanghai.
As an Omicron-induced outbreak of COVID-19 swept across China’s biggest city, millions of people were confined to their homes.
In an eerie echo of the lockdown imposed on the central city of Wuhan in 2020 after the virus...
Kenyan MPs in fresh row over iconic Nairobi Expressway
Kenya's legislators have kicked a fresh storm, calling for the audit of the iconic Nairobi Expressway that cost Sh87 billion. Kimani Ichung'wah the leader of Majority Party in the National Assembly said MPs need answers on the project so as to understand how it was put up.
The Expressway was constructed under the regime of immediate...
Pakistan political crisis updates: Court again adjourns hearing
Supreme Court hearing adjourned till Thursday
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has again delayed its ruling on the legality of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament and call for fresh elections.
A five-judge bench of Pakistan’s top court is hearing multiple petitions challenging Khan’s dissolution of parliament after parliament’s deputy...
Taliban sharply divided over girls’ education beyond Class 6
The Taliban leadership is deeply divided over girls' education beyond Class 6, raising fears of girls’ education in Afghanistan under the new rule that has largely stripped women of their basic rights.
Just recently, the Taliban banned women from flying unaccompanied.
Rights groups say there are deep divisions within the Taliban's Supreme...