Citing a recent case where an unnamed Chinese technology company was targeted by a foreign hacking group for cyber extortion, China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Thursday warned that the networks of "hundreds" of other Chinese businesses and government units have also been infiltrated by these overseas hackers,...
India will surpass Japan and Germany to emerge as the third-largest economy and also the third-largest stock market in the world in the next five years, India's G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant said on Thursday. Speaking at a conference on "The Deccan Conversations, Accelerating Our...
A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” a memorial to victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre that was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021, has gone on display in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. Depicting a heap of contorted bodies and screaming faces, the statue...
India criticised the Uniting for Consensus (UFC) model at the United Nations for “opposing” real reforms to the UNSC. The UFC model, started by Italy in the 1990s, primarily aims to counter bids for permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council by G4 nations – India, Brazil, Germany...
Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced on Tuesday that diplomatic efforts have been initiated with China to convert a loan for Pokhara International Airport to a grant as it failed to garner income, instead piled up more debt. This came after opposition lawmaker Chanda Chaudhary raised questions about the...
The U.S. government recognizes Arunachal Pradesh as part of India and "strongly opposes" any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims in the northeastern Indian state that shares a border with China, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Nuclear-armed neighbors China and India share a 3,000-km (1,860...
A Chinese national who allegedly stole more than 500 files from Google with confidential information on the company's AI technology has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets, according to the Justice Department. The defendant, former Google employee Linwei Ding, was arrested Wednesday morning in Newark, Calif. The 38-year-old...
The Dalai Lama, wrapped in red and yellow robes, urged chanting monks and nuns in his latest public prayers to help heal the world with their "compassionate heart". "Being a good human being is everybody's responsibility," he said, weeks ahead of Sunday's commemorations of the failed Tibetan uprising against China...
Washington, DC , March 07: The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), organized a virtual discussion to highlight mass arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution, separation of families, forced labor, sexual violence, and violations of reproductive rights of Uyghurs in China. The discussion held on Wednesday...
Sixty-five years ago, the people of Tibet rose up. Their courageous spirit continues to guide the Tibetan movement today. Tibetan resistance to Chinese invasion in the late 1950s culminated on March 10, 1959, when thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Norbulingka Palace in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital city, after they became concerned...