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Beijing: Chinese authorities faced more public anger Thursday after a second child's death was blamed on overzealous anti-virus enforcement, adding to frustration at controls that are confining millions of people to their homes and sparked fights with health workers. The 4-month-old girl died after suffering vomiting and diarrhea while in...
Australia’s digital spy agency has identified China as the major backer of serious hacking against Australian companies and critical infrastructure. The Australian Signals Directorate, or ASD, Wednesday released its cyber threat report for the past year. It stated that serious attacks on federal government agencies or critical infrastructure that led to...
Russia and China on Wednesday vetoed a U.S. push for the United Nations Security Council to act on the Israel-Hamas conflict by calling for pauses in fighting to allow humanitarian aid access, the protection of civilians and a stop to arming Hamas and other militants in the Gaza Strip. The...
China, an upper riparian nation, has built roughly eight hydroelectric power projects (HPPs) on the lower levels of the Brahmaputra; some of them are currently operational, others are being built, and one mega-dam is being considered, according to the Daily Mirror. According to Beijing's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), the...
Erin Yao would like to take street dance classes and travel, activities she could not do during three years of COVID-19 restrictions in China. Instead of pursuing such goals, as many economists had expected consumers to do once China lifted those curbs, she is saving more of her salary than...
Germany on Tuesday called for a transparent investigation into “shocking” allegations of rights abuses targeting the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, China, after a media consortium published leaked documents it said catalogued the violations. In a phone call with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock pointed to “the...
The Hamas group shocked the world in October this year as it unleashed a completely new modus operandi of death, destruction and havoc. While the concept of violent non-state actors gained widespread traction in international relations post 9/11, the breach of Israeli sovereignty, in which gunmen went from home...
BEIJING: For the second straight month, a slew of disappointing economic data from China spurred investment banks around the world to cut their 2023 growth outlook. The wave of downgrades highlights the danger of the world’s second-biggest economy missing its official target of around 5% expansion for this year, without...
China’s top leadership is pre-occupied with political manoeuvring to agree on a rescue plan to end the housing slump, while intensifying geopolitical risk means Chinese assets will be volatile under the current administration and only selectively investable, strategists, said.Hopes for some sort of intervention by Beijing to overcome a...
New Delhi , April 10: Days after India rejected its attempts to rename some places in Arunachal Pradesh, China has again sought to make comments about the Indian border state saying it "opposes" the visit of Home Minister Amit Shah. "China firmly opposes the Indian official's visit to Zangnan as Zangnan is China's territory and...