US President Joe Biden on Wednesday criticised Beijing’s “coercive” actions across the Taiwan Strait in an address to a summit of Asia-Pacific nations also attended by China’s premier. Tensions have soared as Beijing steps up air incursions near Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that China considers to be a province awaiting reunification, by force if necessary. […]
China insisted Wednesday that Taiwan has no right to join the United Nations as Washington urged the island’s greater involvement in the world body, sparking tensions that could grow following US President Joe Biden’s latest criticism of Beijing. Biden rebuked China at an online East Asia Summit, telling regional leaders including Chinese Premier Li Keqiang […]
The Wuhan Marathon, which had been due to take place Sunday, has been postponed at short notice as worries increase over a coronavirus resurgence in China ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. China reported 26 new domestic Covid-19 cases on Sunday, in an outbreak that has become latest test of the country’s zero-tolerance approach […]
Former US president Barack Obama urges voters to back the Democrat in the neck-and-neck Virginia gubernatorial election touted as a test of the party’s prospects in next year’s midterm elections. Campaigning in the state capital Richmond for Democrat Terry McAuliffe — a former Virginia governor vying for his second term — Obama casts the Republican […]
China passed a law Saturday to limit the pressure on children from homework and after-school tutoring, state media said, as the country reforms its ultra-competitive education system. The government has imposed several rules in recent months aimed at combating activities it considers harmful to the development of China’s youth. Beijing has already banned minors from […]
Singapore — Singapore on Tuesday began quarantine-free entry for fully vaccinated passengers from eight countries, part of a plan to ease restrictions as the business hub gears up to live with the coronavirus. The latest easing expanded a programme that began with vaccinated air travel lanes with Germany and Brunei last month, and […]
Covax will distribute 14.4 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to 31 more countries next week, the WHO said Friday as it warned people not to waste, through complacency, the hope that vaccines bring. The Covax global vaccine-sharing facility shipped more than 20 million doses to 20 countries as the scheme aimed at ensuring poorer nations get […]
China’s export growth jumped to the highest in over two decades, official data showed Sunday, with imports also surging in a sharp bounceback from the coronavirus outbreak that had brought activity to a near halt. Electronics and textile exports such as masks contributed to the spike in outbound shipments, as demand for work-from-home supplies and […]
Anti-coup demonstrators took to the streets of Myanmar Saturday, a day after a United Nations envoy urged the Security Council to hear the nation’s “desperate pleas” and take swift action to restore democracy. The country has been in turmoil since a February 1 coup ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power, triggering a […]
