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China implements fresh strategy to constrain Uyghur population
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 10 (ANI): China has implemented a new strategy to constrain the Uyghur population in the Xinjiang region by shifting from "re-education camps" to prison.
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DPRK to launch more reconnaissance satellites to space
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], March 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), said his country will launch multiple military reconnaissance satellites to space, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday.
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China struggles to balance its stance on Ukraine-Russia crisis
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 10 (ANI): The ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine has placed China in a difficult position as Beijing struggles to balance its stance to protect its economic and strategic interests.
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China: Uyghur scholar gets 10-year imprisonment for promoting separatism,
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 10 (ANI): A Uyghur professor and translator has been sentenced to 10-year imprisonment in China's Xinjiang for "separatism" and "promoting Western culture", said a media report citing a village official and the convicted man's former Uyghur classmate.
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China's top political advisory body calls for magnified supervision of liv
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 10 (ANI): China's top political advisory body concluded its annual session on Thursday, calling for tightening supervision and rectification of the live streaming industry, reported local media.
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Nine people shot dead in central Mexico
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], March 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Nine people, including three women, were shot dead early Wednesday morning at a private residence in Atlixco, a town in central Mexico's Puebla state, state authorities confirmed.
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Biden signs executive order on cryptocurrencies, places urgency on digital
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 10 (ANI/Xinhua): US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order calling on the whole government to examine the risks and benefits of cryptocurrencies, placing great urgency on the research and development of a possible digital US dollar.
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UN chief denounces 'scandalously unequal' vaccine distribution
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], March 10 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said in his statement on two years of COVID-19 that the vaccine distribution is "scandalously unequal" because rich-country health is prioritized over the poor.
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Australian states record death cases of Japanese encephalitis
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], March 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) confirmed its first death of Japanese encephalitis on Wednesday amid warning of a national spread of the virus.
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China has tough targets to meet before Xi's third term begins
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 9 (ANI): A string of meetings of China's central leadership in the new year have expressed worries about the state of the country's economy. The leadership is now eager to contain any unrest over price rise and unemployment at a time when President Xi Jinping is poised
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UN human rights chief to visit Xinjiang in May
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 9 (ANI): United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is set to visit China in May, including a trip to Xinjiang, after reaching an agreement with Beijing.
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Amazon's business closely entwined with China, suppliers linked to forced
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 8 (ANI): A report from the Tech Transparency Project said that Amazon's business is closely entwined with China and its suppliers linked to forced labour in the Xinjiang region of China.
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