Wed 15 January 2025: Anticorruption minister Tulip Siddiq quits amid questions over ties to the country’s toppled leader, her aunt Sheikh Hasina. The British minister responsible for financial services and fighting corruption has resigned after weeks of questions over her financial ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, the toppled prime minister of Bangladesh. Tulip Siddiq, 42, had […]
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Wed 15 January 2025: The Philippines said Tuesday that China’s deployment of its largest coast guard vessel inside Manila’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is “illegal.” “The presence of the monster ship in our waters is illegal and inconsistent with the exercise of freedom of navigation and innocent passage,” National Security Council spokesperson Jonathan Malaya told […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: Over 70 million people in Japan are estimated to have contracted COVID-19 as of March 2024, according to government data cited by Kyodo news on Tuesday. Japan on Wednesday will mark the fifth anniversary of its first confirmed coronavirus infection in 2020. Total virus-related deaths, meanwhile, stood at around 132,000 as of last August. During the same period, 3,600 deaths were […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: Bangladesh on Sunday summoned India’s high commissioner in Dhaka to protest the installation of barbed wire fences, calling it a “violation of international law.” Pranay Verma appeared in person at the Foreign Ministry in Dhaka and explained the construction of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) wire fence along the border. […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: China is looking at a potential option that involves selling TikTok’s operations in the US to tech-billionaire Elon Musk to keep the app from being effectively banned, Bloomberg News reported Monday. Chinese officials prefer that TikTok remains under the ownership of parent ByteDance Ltd., Bloomberg said, citing sources familiar with the […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: The report says that the hate posts are an affirmation of the clear presence of white supremacist ideology on X. New Delhi: The surge in anti-Indian hate on X during the final weeks of 2024, fuelled by far-right supporters of President-elect Donald Trump opposing the H1B visa programme, has been described as […]
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Sat 11 January 2025: Afghanistan is preparing to sign an agreement with Russia for the transit of 50 million cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) through its territory, according to Rustam Khabibullin, head of the Russian Business Center in Afghanistan. The agreement is expected to be finalized at the upcoming International Economic Kazan Forum […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: Some 15,200 Chinese millionaires were expected to relocate in 2024, according to Henley & Partners. Taipei, Taiwan – Five years ago, Jane Meng travelled from her home in Shanghai to Hong Kong to get herself something special for her birthday. The 31-year-old wealthy owner of an import-export company was not looking for […]
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Wed 08 January 2025: What is HMPV, the respiratory virus surging in China? HMPV infections are spreading in China, while cases of flu-like disease have also been found in India and the UK. A flu-like viral disease has surged in China in recent months, particularly infecting children, raising concerns about its potential spread. Cases of […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: Indonesia joins Russia, China and others in the group, which is viewed as a counterweight to the West. Indonesia has formally joined the BRICS group, a bloc of emerging economies featuring Russia, China and others that is viewed as a counterweight to the West. Brazil, which holds the rotating presidency of the group, […]
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