A 53-year-old man died in Sri Lanka’s western town of Aluthgama on Tuesday while waiting in line for gasoline, which has been strictly rationed in the country since March because of a dire financial crisis, Sri Lanka’s News First website reported Wednesday.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. became the Philippines’ 17th president last week after over four decades in politics that began under the shadow of his father, former Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
African workers for Chinese-owned mines and factories across southern Africa told the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in a report published Thursday that they regularly experienced various labor rights violations including a lack of compensation for all hours worked and poor safety conditions.
A 53-year-old man died in Sri Lanka’s western town of Aluthgama on Tuesday while waiting in line for gasoline, which has been strictly rationed in the country since March because of a dire financial crisis, Sri Lanka’s News First website reported Wednesday.
Japan’s foreign ministry confirmed Thursday that a flotilla of Chinese Navy ships that entered waters near Japan’s Tsushima Strait on June 12 completed a circumnavigation of the archipelago after a nearly three-week mission that saw the ships end their journey near Taiwan, Kyodo News reported.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, commonly known by the nickname “Jokowi,” said on Friday after meeting with the leaders of Ukraine and Russia that the situation between them is “still very difficult.”
Russia’s FSB security service arrested a doctor of physics and mathematics named Dmitry Kolker at Novosibirsk State University in Siberia and took him to Moscow on Thursday, where he will face charges of high treason for collaborating with Chinese intelligence agents.
Hong Kong human rights protesters say fervent Chinese Communist Party supporters assaulted them during the FIBA World Cup qualifier basketball match between China and Australia in Melbourne on Thursday night.
The Rodong Sinmun state newspaper of North Korea published the results of an alleged “investigation” into the origins of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus epidemic in the country on Friday blaming the entry of the disease into the country on “alien things” from South Korea.
Former police officer and ardent Communist Party loyalist John Lee became the chief executive of Hong Kong on Friday, the 25th anniversary of China’s takeover of the once-British city, with a mandate from Beijing to ensure that pro-democracy protests never return.
A successful Australian heiress and entrepreneur allegedly had drunken sex with a 14-year-old boy on four occasions in a 24-hour period and is now being held in custody as she awaits trial.
Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada made a surprise appearance at an ongoing conference of Islamic clerics in Kabul, Afghanistan, declaring Islam “the religion of peace” while declaring that the Taliban “hopes for martyrdom” and celebrates the success of “our jihad.”
25 years ago, Britain’s Union Jack flag was lowered in Hong Kong for the final time, replaced with the yellow and red of Communist China.
China’s state-run Global Times published several articles this week — including portions of an in-depth, four-part installment — all expressing criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s apparent intention to expand its reach across Europe.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong via train on Thursday afternoon to attend Friday’s 25th-anniversary commemoration of the United Kingdom ceding control of the island to Beijing.
A Pew Research Center poll of 25,000 adults across 19 countries found that nearly 80 percent of respondents viewed China’s human rights violations as a “serious problem,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently met with Chinese Communist Party members and praised China’s “innovative and inspiring” app developers in a cozy interview with Chinese state-owned media.
President Joe Biden held a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea – Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and President Yoon Suk-yeol, respectively – in Spain on Wednesday in which the two conservatives pressed Biden to prioritize the threat from communist North Korea.
Roughly one-quarter of the world’s population is currently at risk from “once-in-a-century” floods, with nearly 70 percent of this demographic living across South and East Asia, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday citing a new assessment published by the journal Nature Communications.
The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) on Tuesday announced the Chinese Communist Party had barred at least ten local and international media organizations — including Reuters, Bloomberg News, AFP, and the South China Morning Post — from covering the 25th anniversary of the United Kingdom handing Hong Kong over to China.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health issued a regulation in recent days requiring citizens who refuse to receive a Chinese coronavirus booster shot to “write a letter of accountability” if they later contract the disease and spread it to others, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Tuesday, noting that some observers doubt the edict’s legality.
China’s regime-run Global Times communist propaganda outlet condemned the discovery of at least 51 dead people attempting to illegally enter the United States on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, as a “stain on Washington’s human rights record” despite overwhelming evidence that the deaths were the product of extralegal human trafficking, not actions by the American government.
The deadly synthetic opioid known as fentanyl is hitting New Zealand hard, and drug abuse experts say the authoritarian government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was completely unprepared for its arrival.
The UK should begin sending weapons to Taiwan in order to bolster their defence against an invasion from China, the foreign secretary said.
Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has called on Apple and Google to ban the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok from their app marketplaces, arguing that it is sending sensitive user data on American citizens to Beijing.
The mayor of Australia’s Redland City, Karen Williams, crashed her car into a tree last week while drunk on “several glasses of wine” one hour after meeting virtually with families of drunk driving victims, Australia’s 9News reported Monday.
China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday that 13 Chinese regions were “devastated” Sunday by floods that are projected to last through the coming days. Southern China’s annual rainy season began in recent weeks and has caused record flooding nationwide.
A report published last week by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) warns that China’s state-run Confucius Institutes – a program for spreading Chinese Communist political influence on American campuses, disguised as harmless lessons in traditional Chinese culture and language – are making a comeback by “rebranding” and reopening under new names.
ESPN’s Bob Ley took aim at those attacking the new Saudi-backed LIV golf league over the country’s human rights record.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported an unseasonable spike in influenza cases across southern China blamed by government doctors on “weak immunity” due to “low exposure to respiratory pathogens affected by prevention and control measures against COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus].”
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reversed a good deal of spin from Beijing by admitting that U.S. demand for Chinese goods is falling sharply enough to damage the Chinese economy.
Cai Qi, the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Beijing, told state media Monday that the city would adhere to its “zero-Covid” policy of lockdowns and quarantines for the next five years.
A representative of Plush Bear’s Shelter, an animal rights group operating within China, told Breitbart News this weekend that Chinese police have been stationed to prevent onlookers from photographing images of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival this year.
Police officers in northeastern China’s Dandong city arrested a 41-year-old woman surnamed Hao last week after she attempted to drive her elderly father to a hospital to retrieve medicine during a local Chinese coronavirus lockdown, the Global Times reported over the weekend, noting that the woman’s father attempted to slap one of the police officers after the officer shoved Hao to the ground.
Leftist commentator Danny Haiphong, who contributes to Chinese state media outlets, touted on Sunday the easy availability of abortions in China and other authoritarian nations, including the psychotic dictatorship of North Korea, as evidence of their superiority over the United States.
The Biden White House announced on Monday that Russia defaulted on its international bonds for the first time in over a century, ostensibly because the pressure of international sanctions is crushing the Russian government financially.
Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Sunday announced a $600 billion infrastructure plan for developing nations – a program clearly intended to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Advertisers on Chinese-owned TikTok are reportedly using underhanded tactics to promote payday loans that experts say could violate deceptive advertising laws. One expert commented on the ads flooding the platform massively popular with teenagers, saying, “At best, these videos are designed to make you give up information that you shouldn’t that will result in more solicitations. At worst, this is a complete scam designed either to take your money or information for fraudulent purposes.”
The government of China has declared that qualifications will be required for citizens who wish to post about certain topics, including health, finance and law, in yet another restriction on online speech in the communist dictatorship.
The Chinese government propaganda outlet Global Times predicted in a bizarre column on Monday that the United States Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, which fabricated a right to abortion in the Constitution, will result in America “meddling in the affairs of more countries.”
An Indonesian nightlife venue called Holywings apologized on Thursday for offending religious sentiments in the Muslim-majority country after it offered men named Muhammad free alcohol in a promo.
