Fri 17 January 2025: The United States has finalised a rule effectively barring Chinese and Russian technology from cars in the American market, taking aim at software and hardware from the world’s second-biggest economy over national security risks. The announcement on Tuesday, which also pertains to Russian technology, comes as outgoing President Joe Biden wraps […]
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Fri 17 January 2025: Singapore has introduced a new code requiring designated app distribution services to implement age assurance measures to enhance online safety, particularly for children, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) announced on Wednesday. The Code of Practice for Online Safety for App Distribution Services, which will take effect on March 31, mandates […]
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Fri 17 January 2025: A migrant boat carrying 80 passengers capsized near Morocco, with over 40 Pakistanis reportedly among those presumed dead, the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) confirmed on Thursday. . The incident of boat capsizing took place off the Coast of Morocco, while attempting to reach Spain by boat from West Africa. Pakistani President […]
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Thu 16 January 2025: A movie about the 2002 Godhra train burning incident hit theatres, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his entire cabinet attending its screening. The event sparked renewed discussions about the intersection of cinema and politics in India. Just days after the demise of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, a heated […]
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Wed 15 January 2025: A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of gold bars and $400,000 in cash and found guilty of illegal activities linked to the artisanal mining sector. The trio are the first Chinese nationals to stand trial since Democratic Republic […]
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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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