China Railway Construction Corporation, responsible for road construction in Nepal’s Sindhupalchawk has been witnessing people’s fury over the landslides and damage to houses …
Singaporean VC firm Antler expands into Vietnam, ex-Zalora exec to head the unit
Erik Jonsson, co-founder and former managing director of Zalora Vietnam, will head Antler’s Vietnam unit and join the firm as a partner.
With eight million shots in a day, India tries to energize its vaccination effort.
The total, the most administered in 24 hours in any country apart from China, comes as a second Covid wave recedes.
China Says U.S. Blackmailing Them Into Cooperating With COVID Origins Probe
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Beijing risked being shunned by the international community if it failed to cooperate in the next phase of the WHO’s efforts to trace the origins of the …
Iran and China Love Friday Afternoons in the White House | Opinion
On a Friday afternoon, the White House hoped that no one would notice that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the drawdown of troops and military materiel from the Middle East.
China says the Wuhan virus lab deserves a Nobel Prize. Meanwhile the US is trying to figure out whether it leaked the coronavirus.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian dismissed the theory that the coronavirus was made and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
China Decries U.S. ‘Interference’ for Donating Vaccines to Taiwan
After the U.S. expedited its donation of vaccines to Taiwan over the weekend, China’s Foreign Ministry called it a “political maneuver” that interferes in its “internal affairs.” …
China, allies seek probe into indigenous children’s remains in Canada
China and its allies called on Tuesday for an independent investigation into the discovery last month of the remains of more than 200 indigenous children at a Canadian boarding school.
Germany’s Laschet sees no need to reverse China policy over human rights
Germany must discuss its concerns about China’s record on human rights with Beijing but that does not mean it needs to reverse its policy towards China, the leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s …
Bitcoin drops as China further cracks down on bitcoin trading and mining
The price of bitcoin dropped in trading today on news that the Communist Party of China has further cracked down on the trading of bitcoin and bitcoin mining. The People’s Bank of China said today …