India and Bangladesh signed 10 agreements/ MoUs and announced over a dozen other initiatives - spanning across areas like connectivity, health, trade, energy, defence and maritime cooperation - as PM Narendra Modi hosted his counterpart Sheikh Hasina for the first state visit after the formation of the new NDA...
Canada's ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
A 2022 report by the then U.N. human rights chief said China's treatment of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim...
China is gravely concerned and firmly opposed to U.S. proposed rules for curbing certain investments in China, and reserves the right to take corresponding measures, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Monday.
The U.S. should "stop politicising and weaponising economic and trade issues, and lift investment restrictions on China," the...
Tibetans, forced to join the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), wouldn’t be sent near the Indian border, Lobsang Sangay, sikong or political head of the Tibetan government in exile, said. For, they would “cross over,” he said. He also wondered how much PLA officers would trust Tibetan troops, especially...
China is pressing India to restart direct passenger flights after a four-year halt, but New Delhi is resisting as a border dispute continues to weigh on ties between the world's two most populous countries, officials said.
India-China relations have been tense since the biggest military confrontation in decades on their...
Japan imposed trade restrictions on China-based companies as part of a fresh round of sanctions against individuals and groups supporting Russia's war on Ukraine, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday (Jun 21).
The new sanctions also target firms in India, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. It marks the first...
A group of U.S. lawmakers who met the Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday said they would not allow China to influence the choice of his successor, comments expected to anger Beijing, which calls the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist.
The remarks come as Washington and Beijing seek to...
The Italian government has fined a car company $6.4m (£5m) for allegedly branding vehicles that were made in China as being produced in Italy.
DR Automobiles misleading market cars as being produced in Italy, even though they were mostly made in China, according to the country's competition regulator.
The firm said...
Campaign groups called on the United Nations human rights chief on Thursday to take more action over what they said were documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.
The groups, including the World Uyghur Congress and Amnesty International said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker...
The World Uyghur Congress, a Germany-based organisation advocating Uyghur rights, released a statement on Thursday highlighting the plight of Uyghur individuals seeking refuge and asylum.
The WUC emphasised the cases of 43 Uyghur refugees held at the IDC Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand, since 2014, and Idris Hasan, detained in Morocco since 2021,...
