Mon 23 January 2023: Hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the US continue to plague communities across the country, prompting the Biden administration to take action. The latest high-profile hate crime took place in the state of Indiana on Jan. 11, when an 18-year-old Indiana University student of Asian descent was stabbed repeatedly in […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: It’s “now or never” for one of the oldest societies in the world, according to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who promised on Monday to take immediate action to address the nation’s decreasing birthrate. With promises of financial bonuses and better benefits, Japan has recently tried to persuade its citizens to […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, who held talks with Taliban, tells Al Jazeera some progress in the health sector made but much remains to be done. A UN delegation, which held talks with senior Taliban officials in Afghanistan, has made headway on women’s rights, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told Al […]
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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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