Gasping for breath Reuters/Adnan ABIDI On the evening of April 23, Dhanraj Singh, a 40-year blind man, arrived at the Sikanderpur community health centre in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, complaining of breathlessness. Singh, a resident of the nearby Bansi … Read More
Pyongyang bans ethnic slurs against Chinese people as Kim Jong Un’s regime looks to Beijing for Covid-19 relief. Keep the virus out! This undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on April 10, 2020, shows North … Read More
India’s infection surge has been blamed in part on a highly contagious variant. India has been battling the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak and on Monday recorded another record in new cases with 352,991 in the past 24 hours along with … Read More
JAPAN, U.S. PLEDGE DEEPER TECH, AND SUPPLY CHAIN TIES: Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga capped off their first in-person meeting on Friday by announcing a partnership focused on technology, climate change, and global health. Tucked into the joint … Read More
US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga prepare to hold a joint press conference after their talks at the White House in Washington on April 16, 2021. –Kyodo China accused the US and Japan of “ganging” up on them Saturday, … Read More
BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 10:14 p.m. Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of 5 km, was monitored at 23.94 degrees north … Read More
People line up at a vaccination center in Beijing on April 8, 2021.PHOTO: AFP BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China has urged local authorities to halt compulsory coronavirus vaccinations as the central government tries to balance the urgency of its inoculation efforts … Read More
The Taiwan Strait is a “powder keg” that has the potential to trigger a world war, a military analyst said on Tuesday as a panel of experts gathered to discuss U.S. foreign policy from a Taiwanese perspective. A Chinese aircraft carrier task … Read More
A successful takeover of Taiwan by the Chinese military would harm U.S. credibility among allies in Asia, Biden’s choice to lead American forces in the Pacific said on Tuesday. At a nomination hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Admiral John … Read More
Communist Party newspaper says Japan faces “grave” consequences—including countermeasures by Beijing—if it sides with the United States over the question of Taiwan‘s security in the face of an increasingly assertive China. Japan‘s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and President Joe Biden will together stress the importance … Read More