China’s mega-embassy plans draw fire
10 February 2025
LONDON: Hundreds protested on Saturday at the site of Beijing’s planned new embassy in London, citing human rights and security concerns. If approved, the embassy
LONDON: Hundreds protested on Saturday at the site of Beijing’s planned new embassy in London, citing human rights and security concerns. If approved, the embassy
TOKYO: Gold smuggling cases are surging in Japan on the back of the rising price of the precious metal and the recovery of overseas tourists
JEJU: Heavy snow and strong winds disrupted flights at Jeju International Airport, the gateway to the southern Jeju Island, on Friday, leading to massive flight
SINGAPORE: Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has been placed on home detention, local media reported Friday, four months after receiving a 12-month prison sentence. Iswaran,
PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was fitted with an electronic tag on Friday after being convicted of corruption, prosecutors said — a first for
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to
PARIS: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou survived a second no-confidence vote on Wednesday night, launched by the hard left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI), reported
WASHINGTON: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters was closed on Monday, with employees instructed to work remotely, United Press International (UPI) reported.
WASHINGTON: Hundreds of US government websites, including USAID’s, were offline on Monday, an AFP review found. The outage affected over 350 federal sites from a
BEIJING: China has eased some travel restrictions on Uyghurs but still imposes “severe controls” on those seeking to go abroad or visit family in Xinjiang,
