TAIPEI: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called today for an alliance of democracies to defend against “aggressive actions” and protect freedom, alluding to Chinese actions in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait as major threats to regional stability. China, which claims democratic Taiwan as its own, has ramped up its […]
Day: September 7, 2020
MUMBAI: India recorded its highest daily deaths from the coronavirus in more than a month today, even as new infections slowed, data from the health ministry showed. The health ministry said 1,133 people had died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest since July, taking total mortalities to […]
SYDNEY: The Australian state at the centre of the country’s second wave coronavirus outbreak is deepening its contact tracing programme to try to maintain a steady decline in daily new cases, amid criticism of its handling of the crisis. Victoria state, home to a quarter of Australia’s 25 million population, […]
BALI: A spike in coronavirus infections in Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali and Thailand’s first locally transmitted case in 100 days have dealt further blows to South-east Asian hopes of reviving vital tourism industries. Plans to reopen Bali to foreign tourists from September have been postponed indefinitely, while Thailand’s proposal […]
HONG KONG: Twelve people from Hong Kong arrested as they reportedly sailed to Taiwan for political asylum will “have to be dealt with” by mainland China, but the city government would try to provide assistance, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today. Chinese authorities arrested the 12 people on August 23 […]
NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic has pleaded for compassion for the line judge he struck in the throat with a ball at the US Open on Monday (Sep 7) after the female official faced a backlash from fans of the world number one on social media. The Serb was disqualified in […]
A three-day heat wave brought triple-digit temperatures to much of the state during Labor Day weekend. Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, and the danger for more destruction is so high the US Forest Service announced Monday it was closing all eight national forests […]
Greece, which emerged from its third international bailout in 2018 and has been struggling with the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, wants to spend part of its multi-billion euro cash reserves on its defence sector. Greece plans to acquire arms, boost its armed forces and revamp its defence industry, […]
Trump, who long touted friendly ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping as he sought to make good on promises to rebalance a massive trade deficit, has made getting tough on China a key part of his campaign for re-election on November 3. With the US election approaching, President Donald Trump […]
SYDNEY: Two Australian media firms have rushed two of their China-based reporters from the country after police there demanded interviews with both journalists, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported today. An ABC correspondent based in Beijing and the Australian Financial Review’s (AFR) correspondent based in Shanghai boarded a flight to […]