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Canada's decision to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs may irk China
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Since 2017, Beijing has carried out a sweeping crackdown in the north-western Xinjiang region under the banner of counterterrorism, undertaking campaigns to forcibly assimilate the mostly Muslim ethnic minority group. Experts estimate that Chinese authorities have detained more than 1 millio
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Amid balloon row, Blinken confirms postponement of planned China visit
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Addressing the news conference in Washington, Biden said, "I spoke this morning with director of China's foreign affairs office Wang Yi to convey that in light of China's unacceptable action, I am postponing my plan of travel this weekend to China as you know President Biden and Xi agreed
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ISL: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu extends Bengaluru FC stay till 2028
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The 31-year-old who joined the club in 2017 after becoming the first Indian player to play in the UEFA Europa League at Norway's Stabaek FC has been a mainstay in Bengaluru FC's starting XI since and has gone from strength to strength also making the starting spot in the Indian national team
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Assam: Army reaches out to school students under project Arohan
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Project Arohan, the flagship scheme of the Assam government for meritorious students of class IX-XII Army, aims at not just felicitation but also empowerment of students through awareness and exposure to career choices.
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China making claims on our territory: Philippines raises concern on Beijin
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing's unending quest to dominate the South China Sea has put irked the Philippines and other nations countries, including Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei, who have overlapping claims while Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr raised the issue at World Economic Forum in Davos and said th
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Unholy nexus of BBC, Chinese tech giant Huawei revealed: Report
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
BBC is still taking Huawei's money to fund its overseas journalism. A current employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Steerpike that they were 'shocked' that the BBC was still taking money from a company with such close ties to the Chinese state 'when it was us (the Corporation) w
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Tibetan students protest against US company for mass DNA collection in Tib
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
This is not the company's first involvement in the Chinese government's dystopian programs of mass surveillance and repression. Thermo Fisher has been criticized in the past for selling DNA equipment to the police in Xinjiang.
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Blinken should keep 'Human Rights' top of agenda, appeal freedom of protes
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
As United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepares to start his trip to China, activists around the world urged him to keep "Human Rights" as his top priority on the agenda.
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Xiaomi's global VP Manu Kumar Jain resigns
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Manu Kumar Jain will take some time off before taking up his next "professional challenge".
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Business of selling human organs extracted from prisoners by Chinese govt
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
As the selling of human organs, extracted from illegally detained prisoners is going on unchecked, the growing business competition among Chinese medical institutions and the greed of Chinese officials is reportedly now giving rise to kidnapping teenagers from poor Chinese families and killi
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China's PLA aims to leverage advanced technology for use of unmanned weapo
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Xi Jinping stressed that expeditiously upgrading the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to a 'world-class' force is the need of the hour.
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.8 hits China's Aral
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 on the Richter scale hit the Aral, China on Monday
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