Fears of SECOND WAVE of coronavirus as China battles fresh outbreak

China reported its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases in months on Sunday, triggering fears of a second wave of infections as more...

China needs “Soft Power” to survive America’s “New Cold War”

Since the start of 2020, much of global politics has changed. Haroon Sharif, the former Chairperson of Pakistan’s Board Of Investment (BOI) and Minister...

China’s search for virus vaccine fast-tracked

China has mobilised its army and fast-tracked tests in the global race to find a coronavirus vaccine, but its labs also have an image...

Criminal case opened following Siberian oil spill: mayor to blame

Nearly two weeks after an ecological disaster that has shocked environmental activists both in Russia and abroad, the top local official in Norilsk is...

Second wave of virus in China: Beijing partially locked down

Parts of Beijing were placed under lockdown on Saturday as six new domestic coronavirus cases were reported, fuelling fears of a Second wave of...

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...