The Philippine foreign ministry has once again accused China of intruding into its waters after an incident involving the two countries’ military vessels at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea earlier this week. In a statement yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs responded to an earlier claim by the...
When police showed up at Su Haijin’s lavish apartment in Singapore one early morning in August, he leapt from his second-floor balcony. The ethnic-Chinese businessman was found hiding in a drain with broken legs. The police meanwhile arrested nine other suspects in what Singapore has described as one of...
China is cracking down on weather stations it says are spying for foreign countries, the latest measure in a broad counter-espionage campaign under leader Xi Jinping amid intensifying geopolitical tensions. The country’s civilian spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, said Tuesday it had discovered hundreds of what it said...
In a major development in Apple’s manufacturing plans in India, Apple will start assembling the iPhone 17 in its Indian factories, before anywhere else in the world. This is the first time that Apple will be developing the manufacturing process outside China. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, an expert on...
KARACHI: The total liquid foreign reserves of Pakistan reached US$ 12.5766 billion while reserves held by the central bank stood at $7.5 billion. The State Bank of Pakistan, in a statement issued here on Thursday, informed that SBP’s reserves increased by $ 13 million to $7.5 billion. The total liquid foreign...
More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan in the month since its government ordered 1.7 million people to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said Thursday. The majority rushed to the border in the past several days as the November 1 deadline approached and police began to open up...
MANILA: The Philippine foreign ministry on Thursday accused China of intruding into its waters after an incident at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea earlier this week. China's military had said on Monday that a Philippine military ship "illegally entered" waters near Scarborough Shoal. "It is China that is intruding into Philippine waters," the Philippine...
China and the United States will discuss nuclear arms control next week, the first such talks since the Obama administration, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. China’s foreign ministry said on Monday after a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Washington that the two countries would hold “consultations...
Islamabad : Several politicians across different parties have moved to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, urging the apex court to intervene in the interim government's decision to deport the "illegal foreigners" from the country, The News International reported. The caretakers last month directed 1.7 million Afghans -- living in the...
The top members of a U.S. House committee on China are introducing a bill that seeks to ban the U.S. government from buying Chinese drones. Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of the committee, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the ranking Democrat, are introducing the "American Security Drone Act" on Wednesday, the lawmakers...