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WHO chief asks China to cooperate with probe into origins of COVID-19
Washington DC: World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on China to cooperate with the ongoing investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 amid renewed call to further probe the…
- Technology
Can Indian smartphone brands challenge Chinese dominance?
New Delhi: As India doubles down on local manufacturing to help homegrown brands shine on the world map, domestic smartphone manufacturers are currently facing an iota of problems before they ramp up…
- World
Biden urges G-7 leaders to call out and compete with China
Carbis Bay: Leaders of the world’s largest economies unveiled an infrastructure plan Saturday for the developing world to compete with China’s global initiatives, but they were searching for a consensus on how…
- World
Uyghur, other Muslims in China detained for practicing Islam: Amnesty report
Several people belonging to Muslim minorities, including Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others, were detained by the Chinese government for merely practicing Islam, a recently published report by Amnesty International noted. For years now,…
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Indian-origin journo wins Pulitzer for exposing China’s Muslim detention camps
New York: Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly built…
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Indian SIM cards used in China for frauds under lens
New Delhi: Indian agencies are engaged in getting details of 1,300 SIM cards as they were being used by a gang of Chinese to hack accounts and commit financial frauds, a suspected activity…
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China’s Mars rover sends 1st selfie, ‘touring’ group photos
Beijing: China has revealed new images from its Zhurong rover on Mars, including a beautiful selfie of the rover next to its landing platform. The first batch of scientific images of the…
- World
China passes anti-sanctions law to counter foreign measures
Beijing: Despite international concern, China’s top legislative body on Thursday passed an anti-sanctions law, providing legal backing for Beijing’s measures to counter foreign sanctions. The legislation was passed today at the closing…
- Technology
China-based hackers luring Indians into fake Tata Motors scam
New Delhi: Cyber-security researchers in India on Thursday said they have discovered a malicious free gift campaign pretending to be an offer from Tata Motors that is collecting users’ data, and the…
- World
China carrying out ‘slow genocide’ of Uighurs in Xinjiang: Report
Beijing: Newly published research has provided compelling evidence that China is carrying out a slow genocide of the Uighur population, due to Beijing’s perception of the community as a national security threat.…
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China’s 3 children policy to mitigate consequences of previous govt’s failed policies
Beijing: China’s policy of allowing couples to have three children is a desperate bid to mitigate the consequences of failed policies of the previous Chinese governments. As per Washington Post, the one-child…
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White House drops Trump orders trying to ban TikTok, WeChat
Washington: The White House has dropped Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with…
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China’s birth control policies to cut down birth of Uyghur Muslims: Report
China has always been tough with its birth control policies. A recent report by a German scholar, Adrian Zenz, reveals that the Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5…
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European firms increasing investment in China after Covid
Washington: European businesses have seen higher margin in China than globally and are increasing investment in the country following its quick recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic last year, according to a report.…
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Indian scientist too flagged Wuhan lab leak way back
New Delhi: Amid the clamour for an in-depth investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, Indian scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi were reportedly the first to have flagged…
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Did China’s ‘Bat Woman’ receive $600K from US for coronavirus work?
New York: Amid the leaked Anthony S Fauci emails and independent investigations into the Wuhan lab secrets, reports have emerged again that the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China was funded by…
- Health
Internet group DRASTIC adds more fuel to Corona lab leak theory
An internet group called the Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19, or DRASTIC, brought the Coronavirus lab leak theory to the forefront again, questioning whether the Huanan wet market was, in…
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Beijing vows to protect Chinese corporate interests after fresh US sanctions
Beijing: The US government uses the issue of national security and abuses state power to restrict Chinese enterprises in all possible means, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday after…
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UK ‘people’s tribunal’ hears claims China abused Uyghurs
London: A people’s tribunal set up to assess whether China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people constitute genocide opened in London on Friday, with witness alleging that inmates at detention camps…
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Coronavirus is lab-made in China, Hyd scientist BG Siddharth reiterates
As the world is grappling with the damage caused to the global economy, mass scale deaths are often leading us to a debate whether the COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a virus…
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Slow to start, China now vaccinating at a staggering pace
Taipei: In the span of just five days last month, China gave out 100 million shots of its COVID-19 vaccines. After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other…
- World
China says military flight over waters off Malaysia was ‘routine training’
Beijing: China has said that it has conveyed to Malaysia that a flight of 16 Chinese military planes over hotly contested waters in the South China Sea was a “routine training” and…
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China providing Venezuela with powerful military hardware: Reports
Caracas: Although the Venezuelan Navy has not been a top concern for the US Department of Defense, reports have emerged that China is supplying Venezuela with some rather powerful weapons that could…
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India, China, Australia, Russia pushing ‘massive’ coal expansion
New Delhi: Coal producers are actively pursuing 2.2 billion tonnes per annum of new mine projects around the world, a growth of 30 per cent from current production levels, a new report…
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China, Pakistan and Afghanistan – new game in South Asia
The emerging scenario in South Asia in which China and Pakistan are seeking to gain greater influence in Afghanistan is an ominous signal for India, as both Beijing and Islamabad are working…
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Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre museum shuts over licensing probe
Hong Kong: Ahead of its 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, Hong Kong’s June 4th Museum that commemorates China’s deadly crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing has been temporarily…
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China, Afghanistan, Pakistan to discuss Afghan peace process
Beijing: Amid the drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan, the foreign ministers of China, Afghanistan and Pakistan will discuss the Afghan peace process during a trilateral dialogue on Thursday. During the meeting,…
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China reports first ever human case of H10N3 bird flu in world
The world is battling the COVID-19 pandemic which broke out last year leaving the world helpless and medical workers overburdened. While the world is still battling this deadly virus, China has now…
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NATO ministers meet to prepare summit, Afghan withdrawal
Brussels: NATO’s foreign and defense ministers were meeting Tuesday to lay the groundwork for the military alliance’s first summit with US President Joe Biden, setting aside four tumultuous years with the Trump…
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China easing birth limits further to cope with ageing society
Beijing: China’s ruling Communist Party will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in response to the population’s rising age, a state news agency said…
