Tue 10 May 2022: Chinese President Xi Jinping advised Communist Youth League (CYL) to help the youth cultivate their trust in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Marxism “from the bottom of their heart”. Addressing a grand gathering in Beijing to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Youth League (CYL) of […]
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Tue 10 May 2022: Medan, Indonesia – Indonesia is coming under growing international pressure over its ban on palm oil exports amid soaring food prices worldwide. The ban by the world’s largest palm oil exporter has put pressure on edible oil prices at a time when supplies are already under strain due to poor harvests, the Ukraine war, […]
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Anti-government demonstrators set dozens of properties linked to government ministers and the Rajapaksas on fire. Heavily armed troops have evacuated outgoing Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa from his official residence after thousands of protesters breached the main gate amid the worst violence in weeks of protests over an unprecedented economic crisis. Protesters who forced their way […]
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Mon 09 May 2022: Why is the country keeping itself isolated from the world? While the rest of the world is trying to manage how to live with the coronavirus, China continues with its ‘zero COVID’ policy, forcing people into strict lockdowns. But why is the country keeping itself isolated from the world, and how […]
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Mon 09 May 2022: As widespread protests escalate, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced his resignation on Monday, paving the way for a new cabinet in the crisis-torn country. This comes days after President Gotbaya Rajapaksa demanded the Prime Minister’s resignation at a special meeting on Friday as a solution to the country’s ongoing […]
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Mon 09 May 2022: Naga City, Philippines – Millions of Filipinos have begun voting to choose a new president in an election pitting the son of the Philippines’ late strongman against a liberal human rights lawyer. Polls opened across the Southeast Asian nation at 6am on Monday (22:00GMT on Sunday), with a record-breaking 67 million people […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: The polling for Khalistan referendum will start at 9 am and will continue till 5 pm on Sunday in the Brescia city of Italy. A referendum for a separate Sikh homeland started from London on October 31, last year, and so far tens of thousands of Sikhs have participated in the […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: The Pakistani government has rejected the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report on number of COVID-19 deaths in the country, questioning the United Nations body’s methodology to collect data and supposing an error in the software used to collate the numbers. In a recent report, the WHO estimated there were 260,000 COVID-19 […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: An electoral committee of over 1,500 mostly pro-Beijing members elected John Lee as Hong Kong’s next leader on Sunday. In the election for chief executive, Lee received 1,416 votes, greatly above the required 751 votes. Over 97 percent of the members of the Election Committee voted in a secret ballot on […]
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Sheikh Khalid Al-Hanafi, Taliban’s Acting Minister of Enforcement of Good and Prohibition of Evil. Sat 07 May 2022: Afghanistan‘s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public. “We want our sisters to live with dignity and safety,” said Khalid Hanafi, acting minister for the Taliban’s vice and virtue ministry. […]
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