Authorities in China have arrested almost 13,000 “terrorists” in the restive far western region of Xinjiang since 2014, the government said on Monday. The announcement was made in a lengthy policy paper again defending Beijing’s controversial “de-radicalisation” measures. China has faced growing international opprobrium for setting up facilities that United[…]
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) is planning a massive awareness drive around visa requirements for teaching English in China as South African Sasha Redman goes into her second month in detention over an alleged immigration violation. “If you’re going to teach in China, you need a work[…]
History will judge Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) for staying silent in the face of China’s harsh treatment of millions of Uighur Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang province. That’s the message Omer Kanat, director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a leading Uighur rights organisation in the United[…]
A second Canadian who has gone missing in China is reportedly under investigation on suspicion of “engaging in activities that harm China’s national security”. Businessman Michael Spavor was “being investigated” by the Dandong city branch of China’s ministry of state security and the probe started on December 10, a government news[…]
More than 200 employees comprising engineers, designers and managers at Alphabet Inc’s Google published an open letter demanding the company end development of a censored search engine for Chinese users, escalating earlier protests against the secretive project. Google has described the search app, known as Project Dragonfly, as an experiment[…]
Armed gunmen have killed two policemen as they stormed the Chinese consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, security officials say, in a raid claimed by ethnic Baloch separatists. Security forces killed all three attackers and secured the building shortly after the raid was launched on Friday morning, Pakistan’s[…]
Organised crime groups are expanding and diversifying drug production in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle raising concern the region could emerge as a hub for synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, according to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Asia-Pacific counter-narcotics police met in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw on Wednesday to[…]
The U.S. government has agreed to let eight countries, including close allies South Korea and Japan, as well as India, keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on Tehran from next week, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a U.S. official. Iran’s biggest oil customers – all in Asia –[…]
A knife-wielding woman wounded 14 children at a kindergarten in western China on Friday. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman armed with a kitchen knife, was taken into custody in the city of Chongqing and no motive for the assault was given by police. The attack at the Xinshiji Kindergarten in[…]
China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported on Friday. Chengdu, a city in southwestern Sichuan province, is developing “illumination satellites” which will shine in tandem with the real moon but are eight times[…]
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