An international human rights watchdog called upon the Chinese authorities on Tuesday for the illegal imprisonment and further torture of Ilham Tohti, a renowned Uyghur activist and intellectual, Amnesty International said in a statement.
Nippon Steel (5401.T), opens new tab will dissolve its joint venture with China’s Baoshan Iron & Steel (600019.SS), opens new tab, it said on Tuesday, ending two decades of cooperation when their existing shareholders’ agreement expires at the end of August.
Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeemur Rahman on Sunday warned against new military operations and said that the bureaucracy must mend their ways and acknowledge their failures, Geo News reported, quoting The News.
ByteDance, the owner of global hit short video platform TikTok, has lost a legal challenge that sought to reverse a European Union decision stating that the firm should not favour its own service over rivals.
As Democrats churn over whether President Joe Biden should stay in the 2024 race, the party turmoil is deepening over whether his Vice President Kamala Harris is next in line for the job or if a “mini primary” should be quickly launched to choose a new nominee before the party’s August convention.
A major fire broke out on a container cargo merchant vessel about 102 nautical miles southwest of Goa, causing explosions on the front part of the ship on Friday evening. The vessel was on a passage from Mundra port in Gujarat to Colombo in Sri Lanka.
Top defence officials from Japan, US and South Korea vowed to boost countries’ trilateral relations and cooperation and achieve peace amid rising security risks from China and North Korea, Nikkei Asia reported.
The 16th edition of the India-Mongolia Joint Military Exercise, Nomadic Elephant 2024, concluded on Tuesday, and the two sides engaged in a meaningful dialogue about future joint operations, symbolising the deepened ties and mutual respect cultivated throughout the exercise.
China’s economy grew much slower than expected in the second quarter as a protracted property downturn and job insecurity knocked the wind out of a fragile recovery, keeping alive expectations Beijing will need to unleash even more stimulus.
China and NATO are trying to deepen cooperation with ‘like-minded’ countries in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, which several analysts see as part of growing competition between the United States and China, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
As China’s economic growth slows and its financial system shows signs of strain, the country’s banking sector emerges as a potential flashpoint that could threaten not only domestic stability but also global economic health.
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