Thu 02 July 2020: The United States on Wednesday issued an advisory that warned US companies about the risks they face from maintaining supply chains associated with human rights abuses in China‘s western Xinjiang province. The advisory, issued by the US State, Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments, seeks to add more US pressure on China at a […]
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Wed 01 July 2020: Top EU diplomat Borrell reminds China of implications of new security law, insists on dialogue BRUSSELS (AA) – The EU calls on China to not undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy while assessing the diplomatic consequences of the new security law, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday in a […]
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Wed 01 July 2020: Police say man arrested for carrying ‘Hong Kong Independence’ flag ANKARA (AA) – A protester arrested on Wednesday for carrying an “independence” flag became the first person to be detained under Hong Kong’s contentious new National Security Law. “A man was arrested for holding a #HKIndependence [Hong Kong independence] flag in #CausewayBay, Hong […]
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Tue 30 June 2020: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told parliament on Tuesday he had “no doubt” that India was behind an attack on the stock exchange building in Karachi a day earlier. Four gunmen armed with grenades attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Monday, killing two guards and a policeman before security forces killed the attackers. […]
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Tue 30 June 2020: Latest figures show 2,619 new cases, 82 fatalities over past 24 hours, with most cases reported in Indonesia, Philippines JAKARTA (AA) – The total number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asian countries has reached 150,571 as of Tuesday, including 4,356 fatalities and 85,277 recoveries. The latest figures showed 2,619 new cases […]
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Tue 30 June 2020: TikTok has denied sharing information on Indian users with the Chinese government, after New Delhi banned the wildly popular app, citing national security and privacy concerns. “TikTok continues to comply with all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law and have not shared any information of our users in India […]
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Tue 30 June 2020: US State Secretary Mike Pompeo denounced China Monday following the reports that Beijing forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress their population. “The world received disturbing reports today that the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] is using forced sterilization, forced abortion, and coercive family planning against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, […]
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Tue 30 June 2020: China is forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research. The report, by China scholar Adrian Zenz, has prompted international calls for the United Nations to investigate. According to a report by […]
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Tue 30 June 2020: China’s parliament has passed controversial national security legislation for Hong Kong that Beijing says is necessary to deal with issues of terrorism, subversion and foreign interference but critics say will outlaw dissent and destroy the autonomy and freedoms promised when the territory was returned to China in 1997. The bill was […]
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Mon 29 June 2020: Lack of discipline, self-promotion by members of Hurriyat Conference cited as reason for move SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani on Monday stepped down from the leadership of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of several pro-freedom parties in the disputed region. The ailing 90-year-old leader, […]
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