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Justice Department: US charges Chinese national with stealing trade secrets
A Chinese national who worked for Monsanto before it was purchased by Bayer AG was charged in St. Louis, Missouri, yesterday with stealing trade secrets for China, the US Justice Department said. Haitao Xiang, 42, an employee of Monsanto and
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Hong Kong students’ sewer escape thwarted
HONG KONG: Some anti-government protesters trapped inside a Hong Kong university yesterday tried to flee through the sewers, where one student said she saw snakes, but firemen prevented further escape bids by blocking a manhole into the system. Reuters witnesses
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China: Hong Kong courts have no power to rule on face mask ban
China’s top legislature said Hong Kong courts have no power to rule on the constitutionality of legislation under the city’s Basic Law, which includes a proposed ban on face masks, state news agency Xinhua reported today. The statement came a
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Leaked Chinese government documents details Xinjiang clampdown
BEIJING: A trove of leaked Chinese government documents reveals details of its clampdown on Uighurs and other Muslims in the country’s western Xinjiang region under President Xi Jinping, the New York Times reported. United Nations experts and activists say at
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Uighur activist tells China to stop spying on its minorities
LONDON: World leaders must take a tougher line on China’s use of high-tech surveillance to monitor and crackdown on its ethnic minorities, a Uighur activist urged today, after his mother was detained and then imprisoned. More than one million Uighurs
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Hong Kong protests: Police fire tear gas at university campus
Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas at a university campus today, a day after a protester was shot and a man set on fire in some of worst violence to rock the Chinese-ruled city in more than five months
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Modi rejects Asia trade pact to protect India’s interests
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday that he could not compromise the interests of farmers and workers at home by joining a China-led regional trade pact after it failed to address Delhi’s concerns over market access. The Regional Comprehensive
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Malaysia, China to film ´The Cheng Ho Series´
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and China relations marked another milestone as both countries have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to film an epic biographical series of historical figure Cheng Ho, taking the People-to-People Bond under Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
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Beijing won’t tolerate threats to HK’s ‘1 country, 2 system’ status
BEIJING: China will not tolerate anything that challenges the bottom line of the “one country, two systems” formula that governs Hong Kong, a senior China parliamentary official said today. Hong Kong was an important part of discussions at a plenum
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India, China clash over Kashmir as it gets divided
SRINAGAR: India engaged in a verbal spat with China over Kashmir yesterday as it formally revoked the disputed state’s constitutional autonomy and split it into two federal territories in a bid to integrate it fully into India. Shops and offices
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