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Vietnam bans new Tom Holland film over South China Sea map
Mar 12, 2022 (AFP)
The action-and-adventure caper "Uncharted" shows a map featuring the so-called nine-dash line, which sets out Beijing's expansive claims to the disputed waters,...
'Graft probes and power games': Xi's corruption drive turns to cash trail
Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)
The anti-graft campaign has already taken down big-name detractors but experts say Xi will use the crucial months ahead of a key leadership summit this autumn t...
CIA boss: China 'unsettled' by Russia's war in Ukraine
Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)
"I think President Xi and the Chinese leadership are a little bit unsettled by what they're seeing in Ukraine," Central Intelligence Agency boss William Burns t...
Virus chaos pushes more expats to join Hong Kong exodus
Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)
"We are leaving and we will come back to empty our house whenever that is possible," she told AFP, declining to give her surname and nationality. "All our close...
China's annual parliament opens in key year for Xi
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
About 3,000 members of the National People's Congress (NPC) will fill Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People to hear the country's leaders tout the achiev...
Hong Kong DJ convicted of sedition in watershed trial
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
Tam Tak-chi, 49, is among a growing number of activists charged with sedition, a previously little-used law that prosecutors have dusted off in the wake of mass...
Chinese anti-graft body criticises banks for 'extravagance'
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
The probe of some of China's most important financial bodies comes amid a sweeping regulatory crackdown on major tech and property firms, and an ongoing debt cr...
Prominent anti-China activist arrested in Mongolia
Feb 22, 2022 (AFP)
Landlocked Mongolia is dependent on mineral exports to its giant neighbours, Russia and China, but there have also been protests in the capital Ulaanbaatar over...
Nepal police fire tear gas as MPs debate US grant
Feb 20, 2022 (AFP)
Nepal signed the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) pact in 2017 to fund infrastructure projects but its ratification has been in limbo because of divisions...
Hong Kong to postpone picking new leader amid outbreak
Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)
The Chinese financial hub is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering thousands of confirmed cases a day with hospitals reach...
Chinese food delivery giant slumps on new fee-cut measures
Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)
The guidelines, published by China's top economic planner, aim to support a service sector hit especially hard by restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19. S...
Nepal arrests dozens in protest against US grant
Feb 16, 2022 (AFP)
"The protestors were arrested after they pelted stones and tried to push into the restricted area (near parliament)," police spokesman Bishnu Kumar KC told AFP....
Former Hong Kong teen pop star arrested by security police
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
Local media said one of two people arrested was Tommy Yuen, a former member of Cantopop boyband "E-Kids". A police source confirmed to AFP that Yuen was among t...
Fan fury in China after 'Friends' LGBTQ plotline censored
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
China's top platforms started streaming the series on Friday, but the back story of a lesbian character was absent from the first season's second episode. Fans ...
Can't find love? China's party cadres lend a hand
Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)
As concerns grow over the nation's falling birth and marriage rates, and the knock-on effect of economic stagnation and an ageing workforce, local officials fro...
China tech worker's death reignites industry overtime debate
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
China's internet lit up this week over the brain haemorrhage death of a 25-year-old content moderator who had worked throughout a week-long public holiday for s...
Cyprus begins extradition proceedings against Chinese pair
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
The mother, 61, and her son, 39, were arrested on December 8 under a warrant issued by Chinese authorities for alleged investment fraud in China between March 1...
Tibetans protest 'Games of shame' at Olympic HQ
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
Tibetan demonstrators from across Europe marched the three kilometres (two miles) from the IOC building in Lausanne to the Swiss city's Olympic Museum, a day be...
Indian teen tortured by Chinese troops, family says
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Miram Teron was on a hunting trip in northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state when he was taken into custody by soldiers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Th...
Hong Kong sees first 'seditious publication' jailings since handover
Jan 31, 2022 (AFP)
Sedition is a throwback to Hong Kong's British colonial past but has been dusted off as authorities carry out a widespread crackdown on dissent in the wake of 2...
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