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Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first: Imran Khan

Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first: Imran Khan

-- 2019-09-03 11:56:44

Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions with arch-rival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashm...

UNHCR expresses alarm at statelessness risk in India’s Assam

UNHCR expresses alarm at statelessness risk in India’s Assam

FE Online Desk 2019-09-02 20:38:37

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has expressed concern over the publication of a National Register of Citizens (NRC) that may put large numbers of people in India’s north-eastern...

Tory Brexit rebels to hold showdown meeting with British PM

Tory Brexit rebels to hold showdown meeting with British PM

Xinhua 2019-09-02 18:14:08

Several former British cabinet ministers, also known as Brexit rebels among Tory members of parliament, are expected to have a showdown meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, the beginni...

Assam NRC makes no one stateless, says India

Assam NRC makes no one stateless, says India

-- 2019-09-02 16:24:47

Indian Ministry of External Affairs has said the exclusion from the final list under the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has no implications for the rights of an individual resident in Assam. "It...

Fiji looks forward to 1st 5,000 e-passports

Fiji looks forward to 1st 5,000 e-passports

-- 2019-09-02 16:03:18

The Fiji Immigration Department and a group of technical officials from the Muhlbauer ID Services in Germany are working around the clock to put in the final touches to the much-awaited e-passport sys...

HK students boycott classes after weekend of violence

HK students boycott classes after weekend of violence

Reuters 2019-09-02 12:26:08

Hundreds of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations on Monday, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-rule...

Australia intercepts Sri Lankan boat with 13 asylum seekers

Australia intercepts Sri Lankan boat with 13 asylum seekers

-- 2019-09-02 12:03:43

Australia’s military intercepted a Sri Lankan boat carrying 13 asylum-seekers last month, Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said on Monday, as Canberra sought to defend the relocation of a...

N Korea denies amassing $2.0b through cyberattacks on banks

N Korea denies amassing $2.0b through cyberattacks on banks

-- 2019-09-01 21:12:30

North Korea denied on Sunday allegations that it had obtained $2 billion through cyberattacks on banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, and accused the United States for spreading rumours, reports Reuter...

Hong Kong suffers another bout of pain

Hong Kong suffers another bout of pain

Global Times 2019-09-01 17:41:07

Hong Kong, known as Pearl of the Orient, a hub for international trade and finance and a food haven, underwent another bout of pain on Saturday as a large number of radical protesters organised illega...

Iran unveils new advanced combat drone

Iran unveils new advanced combat drone

Xinhua 2019-09-01 17:30:17

Iran's army unveiled state-of-the-art drone on Sunday, which is capable of tracking and hitting distant targets. The drone, named Kian, has been designed and produced in two types and tested by the I...

Will punish soldiers for Rohingya atrocities: Myanmar army

Will punish soldiers for Rohingya atrocities: Myanmar army

Reuters 2019-09-01 14:28:29

Myanmar’s army will court-martial soldiers after a new finding in an inquiry into atrocities in Rakhine state, from which more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a 2017 army-led campaign the Uni...

AI-powered face changing app sparks privacy concern

AI-powered face changing app sparks privacy concern

Global Times 2019-08-31 19:16:23

A mobile app based on AI technology that can replace face picture of an actor or actress with user's own picture went viral on the Chinese internet Saturday but it also quickly drew wide concern over...

Bus plunges into river in Pakistan, killing 24

Bus plunges into river in Pakistan, killing 24

-- 2019-08-31 12:48:43

A passenger bus carrying about 24 passengers fall into a river in Kohistan district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing all the people on board, a senior police officer told X...

India's Assam NRC excludes 1.9 million

India's Assam NRC excludes 1.9 million

-- 2019-08-31 11:54:51

As many as 1.9 million people have been left out of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) for India's border state of Assam and face the prospect of being rendered stateless. The citizenship...

Pompeo’s remarks make talks with US more difficult: North Korea

Pompeo’s remarks make talks with US more difficult: North Korea

-- 2019-08-31 11:27:55

A recent remark by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about “North Korea’s rogue behaviour” will make talks with the United States more difficult, the North’s KCNA news agency o...

China to grandly celebrate its 70th National Day

China to grandly celebrate its 70th National Day

Xinhua 2019-08-30 18:54:16

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend a grand gathering to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on October 1. Xi, also general secretary of the Co...

New Zealand sees largest number of homes consented since mid-1970s

New Zealand sees largest number of homes consented since mid-1970s

Xinhua 2019-08-30 16:39:53

The number of new homes consented reached 35,472 in the year ended July 2019, the most consented in a year since the mid-1970s, New Zealand's statistics department Stats NZ said on Friday. This is th...

China rejected Hong Kong plan to appease protesters

China rejected Hong Kong plan to appease protesters

Reuters 2019-08-30 15:30:11

Earlier this summer, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, submitted a report to Beijing that assessed protesters’ five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition b...

Assam on alert as NRC due out tomorrow

Assam on alert as NRC due out tomorrow

-- 2019-08-30 14:31:38

Tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police were deployed in India’s border state of Assam on Friday, the eve of the publication of a citizenship register that could leave millions of...

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist arrested

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist arrested

Reuters 2019-08-30 11:47:20

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on Friday on suspicion of organising illegal protests as authorities clampdown on a wave of unrest that has plunged the city into its biggest...

Xi, Duterte meet on pushing forward ties

Xi, Duterte meet on pushing forward ties

Xinhua 2019-08-30 11:38:04

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday met with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, and the two leaders expressed their readiness to push forward ties....

Chinese colleges could capitalise on US immigration policy flaws

Chinese colleges could capitalise on US immigration policy flaws

-- 2019-08-29 17:38:01

Ismail B Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident in Lebanon, was supposed to move to and enrol at Harvard on Tuesday. But his visa was canceled, and he was then deported by a US immigration officer...

India's top ports on alert for attacks from 'Pakistan-trained commandos'

India's top ports on alert for attacks from 'Pakistan-trained commandos'

-- 2019-08-29 17:13:36

India's two main ports said on Thursday they had been warned by the coastguard and intelligence officials that Pakistan-trained commandos have entered Indian waters to carry out underwater attacks on...

Hong Kong's stability, safety marred by prolonged violent protests

Hong Kong's stability, safety marred by prolonged violent protests

Xinhua 2019-08-29 17:05:46

A small television shop in Kwun Tong of China's Hong Kong has few customers, but the news programmes  on the screens kept attracting the attention of passersby. A few elderly residents frowned a...

Myanmar jails filmmaker for criticising army on Facebook

Myanmar jails filmmaker for criticising army on Facebook

-- 2019-08-29 15:04:32

A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced a prominent filmmaker to one year in prison with hard labour for Facebook posts that criticised the military. Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was arrested in April and accuse...

Indonesia pledges $40b to modernise Jakarta ahead of new capital

Indonesia pledges $40b to modernise Jakarta ahead of new capital

-- 2019-08-29 12:30:57

The Indonesian government is not abandoning Jakarta after announcing plans to move the country’s capital, its planning minister said, pledging to spend $40 billion to save the slowly sinking cit...

‘US should honour nuclear deal if it wants talks with Iran’

‘US should honour nuclear deal if it wants talks with Iran’

-- 2019-08-29 10:47:53

Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday the United States will have to observe the 2015 nuclear deal if it wants to meet for talks and that Washington was engaging in &ldqu...

Xi stresses efforts to improve regional economic planning, industrial chains

Xi stresses efforts to improve regional economic planning, industrial chains

Xinhua 2019-08-28 16:48:05

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for efforts to improve regional economic planning featuring complementary advantages and high-quality development, and to upgrade basic industries and i...

The truth about Hong Kong’s autonomy

The truth about Hong Kong’s autonomy

Global Times 2019-08-28 16:37:23

The riots in Hong Kong have lasted for over 10 weeks and most media from the city and the Chinese mainland have been covering specific incidents and related topics. Global Times believes it's time to...

Australia to investigate foreign interference at universities

Australia to investigate foreign interference at universities

-- 2019-08-28 14:33:34

Australia is to formally investigate foreign interference in its universities amid rising concerns about Chinese influence on campuses. The push follows reports of students and staff "self-censoring"...