Category: Asia

Wed 22 February 2023: Wikipedia’s online newspaper, written and edited by community members, has published a report claiming that their investigations reveal that the Adani group employed undeclared paid editors to write and sanitise related Wikipedia pages. While the Wikipedia report has been published in the aftermath of Hindenburg Research’s report on the Adani Group, it includes allegedly […]

Tue 21 February 2023: In a case involving the encouragement of violence, a Pakistani court on Monday granted protective bail to the former prime minister Imran Khan. The Lahore High Court’s two-judge bench granted the former premier a 10-day bail and directed police not to detain him until March 3. Khan has been involved in […]

Mon 20 February 2023: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Pakistan to protect the poor and impose more taxes on the wealthy as the South Asian nation seeks to unlock funds from the global lender to keep its economy afloat. Speaking over the weekend with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle on the sidelines of the […]

Sun 19 February 2023: China warned the United States on Sunday it would “bear all the consequences” if it escalated the controversy over a Chinese balloon that the U.S. military shot down this month. Beijing will “follow through to the end” in the event “the U.S. insists on taking advantage of the issue”, the foreign ministry said in a statement. A U.S. […]