India has imposed higher levies on a range of US products after Washington ended key trade privileges for New Delhi. The US accuses India of being a “high-tariff country” that limits access to its gigantic…
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Protesters in Hong Kong are demanding the city’s leader step down and withdraw an extradition bill. Chief Executive Carrie Lam suspended an unpopular extradition bill and refused to apologize for promoting it. Source: Deutsche Welle…
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The Hong Kong government has put a controversial extradition law on ice. But the government’s suspension will not solve the unrest, it only means a temporary respite, says DW’s Philipp Bilsky. Source: Deutsche Welle –…
Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam on Saturday announced the suspension of her government’s bid to change the city’s extradition law to allow renditions to mainland China, but organizers of recent mass protests said the…
City leader Carrie Lam held a press conference saying her government would ‘suspend work’ on the bill. The proposed law has triggered the biggest protests in the city since its British handover in 1997. Source:…
City leader Carrie Lam is scheduled to hold a press conference, with media reporting she will back down on the bill. The proposed law has triggered the biggest protests in the city since its British…
A visit by the UN’s counterterrorism head to the Xinjiang lends credibility to the view that Uighurs pose a threat to China, the US and rights groups have argued. Some 1 million ethnic Uighurs are…
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Five villagers were injured in fighting between ethnic Arakan Army soldiers and government troops in Rakhine state on Thursday, with a military spokesperson later saying government forces had detained 25 villagers for suspected links to…