Tue 25 January 2022: According to a waste recycling guideline, China will expand its capacity for recycling waste materials as part of its efforts to promote green and low-carbon growth. According to a guideline released jointly by seven government ministries, including the National Development and Reform Commission, China would develop a trash recycling network with […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Taliban and Western officials are meeting outside Oslo, Norway, for talks on Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis, which has worsened dramatically since the Taliban retook power last August, 20 years after being toppled in a US-led assault. The closed-door discussions with representatives of the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Dozens of activists from China’s Uighur Muslim ethnic group marched in Istanbul, asking for a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month in protest of the Chinese government’s treatment of the minority. Protesters gathered outside the Turkish Olympic Committee building in Istanbul on Sunday, carrying blue-and-white flags of the […]
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Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban acting MFA in led of a delegation has left Kabul for Norway. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sat 22 January 2022: The European Union announced on Friday that it will re-establish a physical presence in Afghanistan for humanitarian reasons, but that it would not legally recognize the Taliban-led government. It was the first such announcement […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalized, a spokesman from his office said Saturday. The 96-year-old is in the cardiac care unit of the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur, a spokesperson who asked not to be named said, without giving further details. Media descended on the hospital as […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: Dozens of Hindu religious leaders and politicians gathered last month for a meeting in Haridwar, a prominent pilgrimage site for Hindus in the northern Uttarakhand state, where multiple speakers called on the community to arm themselves for a genocide against the Muslim minority. “Even if just 100 of us become soldiers and […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: China has issued fresh directives to crimp the expansion of the country’s entertainment and tech giants, including Alibaba, Tencent and Bytedance, owner of TikTok, a media report said. Nine different departments, including China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Cyberspace Administration of China […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: Travellers from any country arriving in India, who test Covid positive, will not mandatorily be managed at an isolation facility from today, but have to quarantine themselves at home according to protocols, authorities said. In its revised ‘Guidelines for International Arrivals’ released on Thursday, the government said foreign arrivals, who test […]
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Ko Jimmy(L) and Zeyar Thaw (R) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sat 22 January 2022: A Myanmar military court has sentenced a lawmaker and prominent democracy activist from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) to death. According to the generals, the NLD’s Phyo Zeyar Thaw, who was arrested in November, was sentenced to death for violating […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: Tesla’s growth in Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is reported to have opened detention camps for Uyghurs, has been criticized by US politicians. The heads of two House of Representatives Ways and Means subcommittees wrote to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying the action was “misguided” and set a “poor example” since […]
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