BEIJING: China is considering drawing up a blacklist of “diehard” supporters of Taiwan’s independence, the government said today, which may see Beijing try to take legal steps against democratically-elected President Tsai Ing-wen. Taiwan condemned the plan after the pro-Beijing Hong Kong-based newspaper Ta Kung Pao first reported on it this […]
Day: November 24, 2020
JAKARTA: Anti-graft officials arrested Indonesia’s minister for maritime affairs and fisheries, Edhy Prabowo, early today, an agency spokesman said, without giving a reason for the detention. The minister was among several people held and could be detained and questioned for up to 24 hours, added Ali Fikri of the Corruption […]
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is seen on a screen as she delivers her annual policy address at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong November 25, 2020. HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today the government’s urgent priority was to restore the Chinese-ruled city’s constitutional […]
SAO PAULO: Brazil has gathered enough infection data from a late-stage trial of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech and expects to have interim results on its efficiency in early December, trial organisers said yesterday. Dimas Covas, director of Butantan biomedical research institute that is running the […]