Neighbourhood Intel

Nearly 50 civilians have been detained as hostages during a nighttime junta raid in Sagaing region. Around 70 junta soldiers arrived in two vehicles and fired shells on Baoh village in Khin-U Township on Thursday morning, according to the Narapati Guerrilla Revolution Force. Villagers were asleep and could not flee and most of the hostages […]

Karachi-based social activist and journalist Arsalan Khan is missing. His family claims “unknown persons abducted him” from his residence in the early hours of Friday. Arsalan, who is active on social media especially on Twitter, has worked with different media organisations over the years. One of his friends told The Express Tribune that during the […]

Some Chinese cities have either scrapped or relaxed their Covid-19 testing mandates after China emerged from its worst regional outbreaks, with officials told not to cause too much disruption to people’s lives while staying vigilant about the virus. China, whose economy has been hit hard by Covid restrictions during March to May, including a lockdown […]

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday has announced a 10 per cent “super tax” on large-scale industries in a bid to shore up government revenues. The industries that will be affected include cement, steel, sugar, automobiles, oil and gas, fertilisers, banking, textiles and chemicals among others. Rich individual taxpayers will now have to pay […]

After nearly one million Chinese people were unable to access their bank deposits in central China’s Henan province earlier this year, residents in east China’s Shanghai, south China’s Shenzhen, north China’s Dandong, and central-east China’s Jiujiang reported the difficulties they faced when trying to withdraw cash from their bank accounts. Some banks only serve a […]