Mon 31 May 2021: The U.S. government said Friday it has blocked imports of tuna and other seafood harvested by a Chinese fishing fleet due to allegations of forced labor. The move came as the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden steps up pressure on China amid concerns over its human rights violations, including against […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: The ruling Chinese Communist Party has decided to allow the country’s married couples to have a third child, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday, amid concern over the low birthrate. China will support couples that wish to have a third child, according to a meeting of the Political Bureau of […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: A court battle is pitting Whatsapp against the world’s largest democracy. India is the biggest market for the messaging service. The government recently passed new rules forcing social media companies to identify the first person to send a message. Whatsapp argues this goes against privacy rights in the constitution, adding it […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed Saturday. “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told a national meeting on the pandemic Saturday, according […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft has successfully entered orbit several minutes after its launch on Saturday, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMS) announced. The spacecraft took off at 12:55 GMT from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan. The CMS said that “604 seconds after the […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: Around 64.4 per cent people feel that big corporate houses have benefited in economic terms from the works of the Narendra Modi-led government, according to the ABP-C Voter Modi 2.0 Report Card. The ABP-C Voter survey found that 61 per cent respondents in the urban areas, and 65.9 per cent people […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: More than 120,000 people are currently displaced in Myanmar amid growing conflict between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed groups, according to a UN report released on Friday. Fighting has particularly intensified in Kachin, Kayin, northern Shan, Chin, and Kayah states, resulting in the internal displacement of a total of 120,900 […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: An Iranian oil tanker seized by Indonesia in January has been released, Iranian officials said on Saturday. Iranian-flagged MT Horse had been apprehended by Indonesian authorities in the country’s waters on Jan. 25 over suspected illegal oil transfer. MT Horse and the Panamanian-flagged MT Freya, owned by a Chinese company, each […]
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Fri 28 May 2021: The Centre on Friday invited non-Muslims like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and residing in 13 districts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab to apply for Indian citizenship. The Union home ministry issued a notification in this effect for immediate implementation of the order […]
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Fri 28 May 2021: The Malaysian government on Friday announced a two-week “total lockdown” to halt all economic and social activities from June 1 in a bid to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement came as Malaysia reported a record high of 8,290 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the national total to 549,514. Muhyiddin […]
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