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Hong Kong legislature approves bill requiring officials to pledge allegian
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 13 (ANI): Hong Kong's largely opposition-free legislature approved a new bill that will require public officers to pledge allegiance to the pro-China government.
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China continued to restrict activities, personal freedom of religious adhe
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 13 (ANI): The Chinese government in 2020 continued to assert control over religion and restrict the activities and personal freedom of religious adherents that it perceived as threatening state or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interests, according to the US 2020 report o
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China banks' profit revival falters as lenders sucked in bad debt provisio
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): China banks' profit revival falters as country's largest lenders get sucked into further support for ailing parts of the economy and struggling state-owned companies (bad debts), despite a broad recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
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China's 'relatives policy' emerging as part of broader crackdown on Uyghur
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): China's 2016 'relatives policy', where Chinese government cadres are sent to live, work and sleep with families to promote national harmony in the country, has emerged as a major constituent of a broader crackdown on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang
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Tibet, China's pioneer in social control
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 10 (ANI): As much as China is trying to silence critics and hide its pogroms against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, more and more is being exposed of its horrendous human rights abuses there. Unfortunately, China will not settle for just exorcising Uyghur culture, as other minority grou
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Chinese lawyer involved in Hong Kong fugitives' case barred from leaving c
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 10 (ANI): A lawyer in mainland China, who was deregistered after taking up the case of one of the Hong Kong fugitives captured while trying to flee to Taiwan, has been barred from leaving the country to the United States on national security grounds.
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Jailed Hong Kong activist gets new prison term over Tiananmen Square vigil
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 6 (ANI): Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to serve 10 more months in prison on Thursday for joining last year's vigil to commemorate victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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G7 raises concern over China's actions in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and South Ch
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 6 (ANI): Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) countries rebuked China on issues concerning Hong Kong, human rights violations in Xinjiang, and military build-up in South China Sea.
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Second Covid wave may derail India's budding recovery: S&P
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 5 (ANI): India's second Covid wave may derail a strong recovery in the economy and credit conditions, S&P Global Ratings said on Wednesday.
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China seeks to usurp with "new concept weapons"
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 5 (ANI): Methods of waging war developed rapidly in the last century, as machine guns dominated World War I, and aircraft and tanks rose to the fore in World War II. The technology of war continues to evolve, and China is among those at the forefront of seeking new ways to dis
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More than 4,400 oxygen concentrators airlifted to India in last two weeks:
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], May 3, 2021: SpiceXpress, the air cargo arm of SpiceJet, on Monday airlifted 700 oxygen concentrators from China's Guangzhou to New Delhi, said the airline adding that it has airlifted more than 4,400 oxygen concentrators from the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore and Chi
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A-Pac growth outlooks diverge amid recovery from pandemic shock
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 3 (ANI): Asia Pacific economies are recovering from the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic but intra-regional disparities in the magnitude of shock and durability of growth outlooks are increasingly evident, Fitch Ratings has said.
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