A group made up of activists and regional officials submitted on Friday a request for a judicial review of Indonesia's mining law at the Constitutional Court, arguing there had been a failure of ... ( read original story ...)
India gold dealers charge premiums as imports, smuggling stall
Physical gold sold at a premium in India this week for the first time this year, driven by plunging imports and a near halt in smuggling that offset the impact of high unemployment and a rise in ... ( read original story ...)
Vikas Dubey: India police murder suspect shot dead after arrest
Police in India say they have shot dead a man accused of killing eight policemen in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Vikas Dubey, who was on the run for nearly a week after the incident, was held ... ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: India panel proposes new regulator for non-personal data – draft report
India should set up a data regulator and require companies to disclose how they collect and store data devoid of personal details or which has been anonymised, a panel tasked to draw up such ... ( read original story ...)
India sees more local coronavirus lockdowns as cases near 800,000
India reported a record 26,506 new coronavirus cases on Friday as authorities re-imposed lockdowns in its most populous state and in an industrial hub, home to automakers, drug factories and brewers. ( read original story ...)
WHO advance team on way to China to set up probe into virus origin
An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus which sparked the pandemic, a spokeswoman said on ... ( read original story ...)
China vows retaliation against US sanctions over Xinjiang
China says it will retaliate against U.S. officials and institutions following Washington's imposition of sanctions on three ruling Communist Party leaders over human rights abuses in the northwestern ... ( read original story ...)
WHO Experts in China to Begin Investigation of Coronavirus Origins
The last WHO coronavirus-specific mission to China was in February, after which the team’s leader, Canadian doctor Bruce Aylward, praised China’s containment efforts and information-sharing ... ( read original story ...)
TikTok May Make Changes to Distance Itself From China Amid U.S. Pressure
Officials from ByteDance, the Beijing-based tech startup that owns the short-form video app, are now mulling a shake-up of TikTok's corporate structure, a new report suggests. ( read original story ...)
Cash flows into China funds fuel fears of 2015 boom-bust repeat
Investors poured the most cash into China funds since July 2015, BofA said on Friday, even as fears grew of a repeat of the 2015-16 bubble that saw the benchmark Shanghai index fall more than 40% from ... ( read original story ...)