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A Swiss PhD student has alleged that he was removed from the doctoral programme after tweeting critical sentiments about Communist China.

State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) asked a female Chinese shot putter who had just won an Olympic gold medal in her field when she plans to start “a woman’s life” during a post-competition interview on Sunday, the Guardian reported Friday.

Singapore’s Health Ministry announced Friday it will ease Chinese coronavirus restrictions across the city-state for vaccinated people starting August 10.

China’s state-run Global Times on Friday threw a fit over Australia’s News.com describing 14-year-old Olympic gold medalist diver Quan Hongchan as “pokerfaced.”

Beijing’s government has canceled all large-scale events and exhibitions in the city for the rest of August in an effort to contain the city’s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run China Daily reported Thursday.

Increasingly sprawling wildfires throughout Turkey inched dangerously close to the Kemerkoy Thermal Power Plant, prompting government officials to claim Thursday they had contained it.

Recently inaugurated communist President Pedro Castillo is seeking to expand political and trade ties to China, Reuters reported on Friday, with little room to grow given China’s status as Peru’s largest trade partner already and Peru’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping announced Thursday that the Communist Party will “strive to provide” the world access to 2 billion Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine doses, particularly targeting vulnerable countries.

A report from Fox News alleges President Joe Biden’s ATF nominee David Chipman appeared on Chinese State TV in 2012 and he may have been used by China to cover up a mass stabbing.

Japan’s population dropped by a record margin of nearly 0.4 percent year-on-year as of January 1, the largest decrease recorded since 2013, Kyodo News reported Wednesday. The population of Japan declined by 483,789, or 0.38 percent, from January 2020 to

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Nike CEO John Donahoe responded to a question on why Nike hasn’t been more vocal on human rights issues in China by stating that they participate “in sport all over the world, including

Conditions in the Chinese coronavirus origin city of Wuhan have so deteriorated that state propaganda outlet the Global Times could not mask on Wednesday the “bombshell” damage of the current outbreak, reporting empty streets, residents hoarding food, and citywide lockdown measures.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday fretted that America’s deer population could be teeming with Wuhan coronavirus and ready to “pass the virus to humans, triggering a new wave of the pandemic.”

According to Voice of America News (VOA) on Thursday, there is growing concern among fishermen working from Hawaii over the steadily increasing number of Chinese fishing vessels working in and near their waters. 

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday responded to extensive evidence that China is perpetrating genocide against ethnic Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang territory by accusing the United States of executing “the real genocide” against Native Americans, the state-run Global Times reported Thursday.

A grim report from Japan’s Asahi Shimbun on Thursday told the stories of people who died alone and went undiscovered for up to six months because the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic eliminated their social interactions.

Hua Chunying, the most senior spokesperson at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, applauded American gymnast Simone Biles on Thursday in a Twitter post, apparently for showing grace to Chinese competitor Guan Chenchen.

A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped, murdered, and forcibly cremated by four men in Delhi, India, on Sunday according to an account given by the girl’s mother to local police, OpIndia reported Wednesday.

The Communist Party disciplinary committee of China’s Zhangjiajie city government “punished” 20 municipal officials as of Wednesday for allegedly failing to prevent Zhangjiajie’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak from spreading to several other cities and provinces, the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) reported.

China’s ruling Communist Party imposed travel restrictions on all 31 provincial-level regions of the country on Tuesday in an effort to contain the spread of China’s most recent coronavirus outbreak, the state-run press agency Xinhua reported.

The Taliban terror group killed eight people and injured 20 others in an attack on Kabul on Tuesday night that targeted the home of Afghanistan’s acting defense minister, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, Afghanistan’s interior ministry confirmed Wednesday.

A video circulating this week in Indonesia showing Christian leaders praying over a bonfire and burning sanitary masks has caused alarm, the Asian outlet Coconuts reported on Wednesday, as one of the men praying can be heard asserting, “we do not believe in vaccines.”

A Russian lesbian couple and their daughters have “fled the country” for Spain after allegedly receiving death threats for starring in an advertisement for a Russian grocery store in recent weeks, the Moscow Times reported on Tuesday.

China’s state-run Global Times ranted at length on Wednesday against the “disgraceful” behavior of the Australian Olympic team, some of whose members were accused of rowdy conduct that damaged their hotel rooms in Tokyo and “unacceptable behavior” on their flight home.

KAMIYOGA, Japan (AP) — Equestrian jumpers aren’t keen on surprises. Neither are the horses, and it takes years of training to keep them from getting spooked.

China’s government-run Global Times propaganda newspaper accused former American President Barack Obama of “neglect for life and human rights” in a column Tuesday questioning the wisdom of Obama reportedly planning a large 60th birthday party this weekend.

The preponderance of evidence shows the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said a Republican congressional report.

The U.S. announced that it is broadening eligibility criteria to allow more Afghans and their families to qualify for U.S. refugee status.

Jeannette Young, the chief health officer of Queensland, Australia, told a press conference on Tuesday that unvaccinated elderly people should avoid contact with their grandchildren after a cluster of coronavirus cases was discovered in four local schools.

Japan’s health ministry on Monday released the names of three people it accused of violating a state-mandated coronavirus quarantine period after returning to Japan from overseas in recent days, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) reported Tuesday.