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US arrests two over Chinese 'police station' in New York
AFP, Published on 18/04/2023
» NEW YORK: US authorities arrested two men on Monday for allegedly setting up a Chinese "police station" in New York and charged dozens of Chinese security officials over a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents.
Messi beats Mbappe to FIFA Best prize, Putellas claims women's award
AFP, Published on 28/02/2023
» PARIS - Lionel Messi won The Best FIFA men's player prize for 2022 on Monday on the back of his World Cup triumph with Argentina and Spain's Alexia Putellas retained the women's award at a ceremony in Paris.
17 killed, 22 injured in road accident in eastern China
AFP, Published on 08/01/2023
» Seventeen people were killed and 22 were injured Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China's Jiangxi province, state media reported.
Ethiopia's celebrated circus offers youth discipline and hope
AFP, Published on 21/12/2022
» DIRE DAWA (ETHIOPIA) - In a faded hall with tattered carpets, young acrobats launch off their partners' feet high into the air with a spin, as others perform juggling feats, somersaults or twist into contortions.
Former China leader Jiang Zemin dead
AFP, Reuters, Kyodo News, Published on 30/11/2022
» China's former leader Jiang Zemin, who steered the country through a transformational era from the late 1980s and into the new millennium, died Wednesday at the age of 96, China's state news agency said.
China's population could halve within next 45 years, new study warns
South China Morning Post, Published on 01/10/2021
» HONG KONG: China's population decline may be much faster than expected, with the number of people in the country halving within the next 45 years, a new study has warned.
Ex-New York governor Cuomo stripped of Emmy over sex harassment
AFP, Published on 25/08/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as New York governor over sexual harassment allegations, was stripped Tuesday of the Emmy he won for his primetime pandemic briefings.
'Dead body carrier': Covid surge overwhelms Myanmar burial volunteers
AFP, Published on 19/07/2021
» YANGON: With hospitals in junta-run Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and coronavirus cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the fast-rising number of victims dying in their homes.
Epoch Times defiant after Hong Kong printing press ransacked
AFP, Published on 13/04/2021
» HONG KONG: A Hong Kong newspaper linked to a spiritual group banned in China said Tuesday it would "never back down" after a gang of sledgehammer-wielding men ransacked its printing presses.
Rescuers say at least two more weeks to free Chinese miners
AFP, Published on 22/01/2021
» BEIJING - Rescuers believe it could take at least another two weeks to free miners trapped underground in eastern China, dashing hopes of an imminent retrieval for a group that has already spent 12 days entombed by an explosion.