Western officials and analysts are suspicious about the involvement of a Chinese container ship in damaging the Balticconnector Gas Pipeline, a vital Baltic Sea gas pipeline linking Estonia and Finland, reported Voice of America (VOA).
One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily early on Monday.
US lawmaker and Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (SCCCP) in a letter to US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, has called for an investigation into Chinese wi-fi routers available in the US.
The Philippine government has lodged a diplomatic protest with China following a dangerous encounter in which Chinese jets flew perilously close to a Philippine air force patrol plane and fired flares in its path over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
China’s recent reversal on its private education policy reveals significant flaws in its “Common Prosperity” agenda. Last week, the government overturned a July 2021 ruling that banned private schools and tuition centers, which had led to the collapse of the $100 billion education sector. Many institutions and tutoring companies had closed following the 2021 clampdown.
Authorities in the Philippines are investigating claims that a Manila-based foreign journalist could be a Chinese agent, an allegation that analysts say reflects an ongoing campaign targeting the Southeast Asian country through covert operations.
Hong Kong’s top court on Monday unanimously dismissed the bid to overturn the convictions of media mogul Jimmy Lai and six other pro-democracy campaigners for an unauthorised assembly in 2019.
India and Maldives have renewed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide capacity-building training to 1,000 Maldivian civil servants between 2024 and 2029, as announced during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Male from August 9-11.
Amid escalating tensions in the South China Sea, the coast guards of the Philippines and Vietnamese conducted their first joint drills in firefighting, rescue, and medical response in Manila Bay, off the west coast of Luzon, the Philippines’ main island, leading into the South China Sea, Voice of America reported.
India and Maldives have signed an agreement to introduce the Unified Payments Interface in the archipelago nation, which will have a ’’very positive’’ impact on its tourism sector, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Friday during Jaishankar’s three-day official visit to the Maldives.
In a strategic move to reinforce its presence in the Western Pacific, the U.S. Navy is set to deploy the advanced Virginia-class submarine USS Minnesota to Guam at the start of the new fiscal year on October 1.
Bangladesh‘s chief justice and central bank governor have resigned, officials said on Saturday, as student protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee have widened to target more officials appointed during her time in office.
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