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Apple Daily's shutdown signals all-out attack by China on Hong Kong media,
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, June 27 (ANI): The recent shutdown of the 26-year-old Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has signalled an all-out Chinese attack against media and free speech in the region, as the government has already announced that it would tighten rules about accrediting journalist
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US lawmakers introduce resolution condemning human rights abuses by China
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], June 27 (ANI): Ahead of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) centenary anniversary next week, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers have submitted a resolution condemning China's human rights abuses over the last 100 years.
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Nike 'a brand of China, for China': CEO after facing boycott call over rem
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Nike CEO John Donahoe has said the sportswear apparel giant is a "brand of China and for China" after it faced a backlash earlier this year for voicing concerns about the communist government using Uyghur forced labour in the production of cotton.
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4 Chinese coast guard ships sail into Japanese waters near Senkaku Islands
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 26 (ANI): Four Chinese coast guard ships sailed into Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Saturday morning, according to Japan Coast Guard, local media reported.
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Indonesia's doctors becoming patients after administration of China's Sino
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], June 26 (ANI): Facing increased COVID-19 infections and a deadly variant, Indonesia's doctors are at the centre of the crisis as many have died after being vaccinated by the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine - Sinovac.
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2 Chinese nationals arrested in Pak's Karachi for illegal stay
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 26 (ANI): Two Chinese nationals were arrested from Pakistan's Jacob Lines area in Karachi for staying in the country despite the expiry of their 30-day business visas, officials from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said on Friday.
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Doubts about China's transparency on the COVID-19 pandemic origins piling
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Jesse Bloom, a virologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, discovered the deletion of some early sequences of coronavirus from Wuhan which were missing from the Sequence Read Archive, a public archive of high through
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Tibetan writer languishes in Chinese prison since 2019 without trial: Repo
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 25 (ANI): A Tibetan writer, who was arrested on unspecified charges by Chinese authorities in 2019, has still not been brought to trial.
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China says Taiwan independence means war, asks Washington to 'sever' milit
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 25 (ANI): China has issued a warning to the United States over its increasing military contacts with Taiwan, saying the self-ruled island is an "inalienable part" of China and seeking its independence means war.
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Chinese media doesn't hold the powerful accountable, rather ensures their
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 25 (ANI): Since its revolutionary days, China's ruling Communist Party (CCP) has viewed military and propaganda -- or "the barrel of the gun and the shaft of the pen" as described by former Chairman Mao Zedong -- as the two most important tools for its ascent to and hold o
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Uyghurs in Xinjiang given long prison sentences
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 25 (ANI): Chinese government figures show a steep rise in the number of people given lengthy prison sentences in Xinjiang from 2014, when Beijing's crackdown on the region's Muslim-majority Uyghurs ramped up.
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US bans imports of material from Chinese company linked to forced labour c
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): The United States banned imports of solar panels and other goods made with materials produced by a Chinese company Hoshine Silicon Industry Co after the company's plants were linked to forced labour camps in China's Xinjiang region targeting Uyghurs and other
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