Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to ‘change the international order’
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has issued a grave warning about China’s attempts to reunify the east Asian nation.
The comments come amid growing military activity near Taiwan and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s intentions to reunify the two nations despite the Taiwanese resistance.
Speaking exclusively to Sky News Australia host Peta...
WHO chief censored on China’s internet after calling zero-Covid unsustainable
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is being censored on China's internet after questioning the sustainability of the country's zero-Covid policy.
The censorship on Weibo and WeChat, China's two largest social media platforms, targets WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' comments that expressed rare disagreement with Beijing's policies.
"When we...
Rwanda jails Chinese national for torturing mine workers
A Chinese national has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for torturing local mineworkers in Rwanda after a video showing him whipping a man tied to a post went viral on social media.
Sun Shujun, the manager of a mine in the west of the country, was convicted on Tuesday along with an...
Afghans demonstrate in Canada to defend women’s rights in Afghanistan
A group of Afghans gathered in Toronto city of Canada to defend women’s rights in Afghanistan.
The protesters carried placards and chanted slogans like “The Taliban have not changed”, and “Cooperating with Taliban is a crime against humanity.”
Since coming to power in August last year, the Taliban have targeted women,...
Former senior inspector under probe
BEIJING -- Liu Yanping, former head of the top anti-graft authority's discipline inspection and supervision office at the Ministry of National Security, is under investigation for suspected severe violations of discipline and law.
The probe is being conducted by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission,...
Pakistan: Ex-PM’s aide, TV station staff face sedition charges
A close aide to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will face sedition charges, accused of inciting mutiny in the military, the interior minister has said.
The charges were related to comments made by Khan adviser Shahbaz Gill and aired on ARY TV on Monday night, which the minister, Rana Sanaullah, said was a...
Kenya to partner with India on enhancing defence systems
Kenya and India are set to embark on a new partnership to help strengthen both countries' defence systems.
This was decided during the second Joint Defence Cooperation Committee meeting held in Nairobi on Tuesday.
The meeting was co-chaired by Joint Secretary of the Armed Forces, Shri Manish Tripathi and major general...
Ten years of Afghan economic growth, reversed in just 12 months: UNDP
It says that the already-declining regular economy, as opposed to the black market, lost nearly $5 billion after August 2021 and is reversing “in 12 months what had taken 10 years to accumulate.”
The cost of a basket of essentials needed to avoid food poverty has meanwhile risen 35 percent, forcing poorer households to go...
Nearly 200 media outlets shut in past 7 months in Afghanistan
Up to 180 media outlets out of 475 have been closed in Afghanistan in the past seven months following the takeover by the Taliban in August this year, local media reported.
On Tuesday, Afghanistan's National House of Journalists in its latest survey said Afghan media outlets have been affected the most after the Taliban...
How Uhuru’s Deal With US Has Ignited Battle With China
Kenya risks being caught up in the middle of an economic supremacy battle between China and the United States over control of East Africa’s 5G infrastructure.
Kenya is appearing as a battlefield for Beijing and Washington's bid to dominate not only 5G deployment but also the next industrial spring, with the conqueror exerting greater...