Australian sentenced to death in China for drug trafficking
An Australian has been sentenced to death in China for drug trafficking, in a ruling that could further inflame tensions between Beijing and Canberra....
Will Russian anti-Coronavirus drug ‘Avifavir’ be effective?
A cure for Covid-19 is the current holy grail of medical research. However, in its absence, next best would be a medicine that can...
Hong Kongers rush for British passports as China flexes muscles
Shortly before Hong Kong was handed back to China, Simon Ng applied for a British National (Overseas) passport, a document he never thought he'd...
Zoom kneels to Chinese demands for censorship
Zoom knelt to Chinese demands for censorship of US and Hong Kong activists who gathered on the popular chat app to mark the deadly...
Twitter dismantles Chinese disinformation network
Twitter said Friday it had deleted more than 170,000 accounts linked to a Chinese government disinformation campaign that targeted Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and...
WHO can’t explain Russia’s low coronavirus death rate
Russia’s relatively low number of Covid-19 fatalities has been labeled “unusual” by Michael Ryan, a World Health Organization (WHO) official. He said the low...
Can India & China reach a political solution?
The good thing about the nihilistic Indian media narratives — relentlessly negative — over the military standoff in eastern Ladakh is that the government...
Herd immunity in Russia: millions have Covid-19 says new data
As testing ramps up, a growing number of Russians are discovering that they have already had Covid-19. Results show almost 14 percent of people...
US trying to split Russia ahead of vote on new Constitution: Russian official
An influential Russian official has claimed that hostile Western actors and the US are trying to split Russia in the run-up to the July...
HSBC under fire in UK for its stance on Hong Kong
Asia-focused banking giant HSBC's vocal support for China's controversial Hong Kong security law has not been well received in Britain, the former ruler of...
Australia not intimidated by China threats: PM
Australia warned Thursday it would not be intimidated by attempts at economic "coercion" after China threatened to undermine the multi-billion dollar flow of Chinese...
Pravin Sawhney’s Ladakh assessment: Indian policy blunders & way forward
On May 5, when the Chinese PLA through a series of well-coordinated and meticulously executed incursions surprised the Indian side — many eyebrows were...