Chinese stocks went down on Friday, following a general dip in Asian markets. This happened because traders reduced their expectations for cuts in U.S. interest rates due to unclear inflation signals, and also because of a decline in China’s trade activities in March, which affected market mood negatively. Denting investor appetite for riskier assets, the […]Read More
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s Prime Minister, urged members of the U.S. Congress to maintain their support of Ukraine on Thursday. During his address inside the House chamber, he told lawmakers to overcome “self-doubt” about America’s role on the world stage. “The leadership of the United States is indispensable. Without U.S. support, how long before the hopes […]Read More
President Biden has offered an “ironclad” commitment that the US would support the Philippines and Japan from any attack in the South China Sea. Biden said this at a joint summit with Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida. “The United States’ defence commitments to Japan and to the Philippines are ironclad,” […]Read More
China summoned a Japanese diplomat on Friday to express concern and dissatisfaction over negative comments about it aired during a summit of the leaders of the United States, Japan and Philippines, the foreign ministry said. The United States and its allies, including Japan, have been building up their militaries to counter what they see as […]Read More
Two Russian news sources reported on Friday that Russian companies are increasingly struggling to make payments to China. They mentioned that especially transactions for electronic components are being impacted. According to the news outlet Kommersant, some Chinese banks have started to block payments from Russia since late March, affecting the purchase of essential electronics like […]Read More
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to China from April 15-16, the FAZ newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing an invitation sent to business representatives by the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business. Last year, Germany started a plan to reduce its reliance on China. However, on Saturday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz began an important visit to China […]Read More
Mali’s junta have issued a decree banning political party activities and it has also issued a ban on all media coverage of the same. The country’s communication ministry issued a statement on Thursday “all media (radio, television, written press and online) to halt broadcast and publication of the activities of political parties and the activities […]Read More
The China Coast Guard today announced that it conducted patrols in the “territorial waters” around the Diaoyu Islands, which are also referred to as the Senkaku Islands by Japan, in the East China Sea. In a separate statement, the Japan Coast Guard reported that its patrol boats requested four Chinese coast guard vessels to exit […]Read More
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is concerned about the possibility of an organised attack in the United States similar to the one that killed scores of people at a Russian concert hall last month, the bureau’s director told a House of Representatives panel on Thursday. “As I look back over my career in law […]Read More
A national election in the Solomon Islands, the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed a security pact with Beijing, will be watched next week for its potential to jolt the U.S.-China rivalry in the South Pacific. The United States and Australia are concerned about China’s naval ambitions in Pacific countries, as tensions rise over […]Read More
A report released recently said that top fashion brands like Zara and H&M have been linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence in an area of Brazil ‘plundered’ to grow cotton. The investigation carried out by non-governmental organisation Earthsight tracked 816,000 tonnes of cotton to firms in Asia to make jeans, hoodies, shorts and […]Read More
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called upon China and other countries to use their influence over Iran to dissuade it from attacking Israel. Blinken spoke to Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan and Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan “to make clear that escalation is not in anyone’s interest […]Read More
Deaths caused by the mosquito-borne dengue disease have more than tripled in Peru so far this year, according to data from the South American nation’s government, which is redoubling efforts to contain an epidemic that has hit poor areas the hardest. The government of President Dina Boluarte this week said it had approved an “emergency […]Read More
The UN has warned that “donor fatigue’ is hurting Ukrainians who have been displaced by the war. According to UN figures, the Ukrainian crisis is the biggest refugee crisis in Europe this century, with 6.5 million Ukrainian refugees having been recorded globally and 3.7 million displaced within Ukraine. The UN also said that over 14 […]Read More
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said on Thursday it would hold a hearing next week with members of an expert panel that released a report in February criticising Boeing’s safety culture and calling for significant improvements. The hearing next Wednesday comes as the U.S. planemaker has been grappling with a full-blown safety crisis that has […]Read More
Former China Everbright Group Chairman Tang Shuangning has been charged with taking bribes and corruption, Chinese state media reported on Friday. He has been under investigation by the country’s anti-graft department. Tang took advantage of his various positions, including at the People’s Bank of China and the China Everbright Group, to embezzle money and take […]Read More
The attacks, which hammered thermal and hydroelectric power plants, have caused fears about the resilience of an energy system that was hobbled by a Russian air campaign in the war's first winter. Read More
Penguin Books UK in a statement on X described the book as the "full story of Navalny’s life and a rousing call to continue the work for which he sacrificed his life". Read More
The Dragon's Egg is so named because it is located relatively near a larger nebula complex called the Fighting Dragons of Ara.Read More
Flights between China and the United States - which were a point of contention during the COVID-19 pandemic - have emerged as a rare area of cooperation between the two super powers, but U.S. airlines have expressed concern about the rapid pace of increasing flights.Read More
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