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Canada expresses 'serious concern' over China's new security law, warn cit
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Ontario [Canada], July 4 (ANI): Canada has also joined the international community in expressing "strong concern" over China's new national security legislation in Hong Kong and updated advisory warning citizens from travelling to the special administrative region citing potential impacts of
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First Hong Kong citizen arrested under China's new security law
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 4 (ANI): Days after China passed the national security law, Tong Ying-kit has become the first person to have been arrested for inciting secession and 'terrorism' under the new law, Al Jazeera reported.
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Case filed against man for posing as PMO official in Bengaluru
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 4 (ANI): A case has been filed against a man who posed himself to be the PMO's National Security Council 'youth advisor' during his visit to Bengaluru.
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Time to focus on Xi Jinping as he "is an unfettered emperor in the traditi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 4 (ANI): Recent imposition of national security law in Hong Kong and reports of Uyghurs Muslims being subjected to forced sterilisation in "re-education camps" in Xinjiang has revealed to the world that "XI is an unfettered emperor in the tradition of Mao," said Andrew Adon
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China appoints hardliner Zheng Yanxiong head of national security office i
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 3 (ANI): Chinese government has appointed Zheng Yanxiong as head of a powerful new agency being established in Hong Kong to oversee implementation of controversial national security law, reported South China Morning Post.
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US plans to re-open pandemic response office
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 3 (ANI): The pandemic response office at National Security Council which was disbanded by the Trump administration in 2018 will now be reopened at the State Department amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law leaves homeland after China pa
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 3 (ANI): With China imposing the national security law in Hong Kong, several pro-democracy activists are fleeing their homeland.
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US Congress passes bill penalising banks doing business with China over Ho
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 3 (ANI): The US Congress on Thursday (local time) unanimously gave nod to a bill penalising banks doing business with Chinese officials responsible for imposing the security law in Hong Kong, Al Jazeera reported.
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We are not puppets, government should take us into confidence about its ac
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Former Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said that the government should take the Congress into confidence about its actions concerning national security and the party can make valuable suggestions.
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Hong Kong Police arrest over 370 people for using their freedom of speech
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 2 (ANI): On the first day after China passed the national security law, the Hong Kong Police arrested over 370 people for participating in the pro-democracy march.
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US backs India's ban on Chinese apps, says move will 'boost India's integr
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 1 (ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday applauded India's ban on 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok and WeChat, and stressed that the move would "boost India's integrity and national security".
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Hong Kong police make first arrest under new security law
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 1 (ANI): Hong Kong police on Wednesday made the first arrest under violation of the law, just a day after China's elite Standing Committee imposed the new national security legislation on the semi-autonomous region, CNN reported.
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