Sun 22 January 2023: The possibility of a large-scale COVID-19 rebound in China over the next few months is remote as 80 percent of the country’s population has been infected, a prominent government scientist has said. Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Saturday that the mass […]
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Sat 21 January 2023: The Indian government has ordered Twitter and YouTube to take down links of a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, people with direct knowledge of the matter have said. Many tweets and YouTube videos of the documentary titled “India: The Modi Question” no longer appear […]
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Fri 20 January 2023: The BBC documentary features the findings of a British inquiry into the 2002 deadly riots, which reveals PM Modi failed to stop the violence. India’s foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that questioned his leadership during the deadly 2002 Gujarat riots as “propaganda”. Modi […]
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China’s Zhao Xintong plays a shot. FILE PHOTO Wed 18 January 2023: Ten Chinese snooker players, including some of the game’s biggest stars, have been accused of match-fixing, which has caused a serious corruption crisis in the sport. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the sport’s governing body, said in a statement on […]
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Wed 18 January 2023: Maria Ressa, a Filipino who won the Nobel Prize, and her online news site Rappler were cleared of tax evasion charges. In a case Ressa has described as a part of a pattern of harassment by the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte to stifle critical reporting, an appellate court’s decision […]
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Wed 18 January 2023: In spite of restrictions last month banning female workers in NGO’s, a number of aid organizations have resumed certain operations in Afghanistan after receiving assurances from Taliban authorities that women could work in fields like health (NGOs). This week, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children, and CARE announced that […]
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Tue 17 January 2023: Israeli company, Cognyte, which is traded on the NASDAQ, won a tender to sell intercept spyware to a Myanmar state-backed telecommunications firm, a month before the military coup in February 2021, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and Israeli Haaretz newspaper on Monday. The documents show that Cognyte won the tender in December 2020 to […]
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Tue 17 January 2023: The Bharatiya Janata Party government in the Indian state of Gujarat used bulldozers in several places and demolished six madrasas in Kutch area of the state. 36 commercial establishments were also demolished in the area. According to media reports, the bulldozers came into action in the border coastal area action plan. […]
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Tue 17 January 2023: For the first time in more than 60 years, China’s population has decreased, according to the official data. This is a momentous shift for the most populous country in the world, which now anticipates a prolonged period of population reduction. The 1.4 billion-people country has seen birth rates fall to record […]
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Mon 16 January 2023: India is hopeful that trade in rupees with Russia will pick up after the two countries spoke about facilitating transactions in local currencies, an Indian trade ministry official said. India has been exploring a rupee trade settlement mechanism with Russia soon after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February, but the countries have […]
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