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'Chinese leadership daydreaming': Taiwan mocks plan to build Beiji
Updated : 6 days, 2 hours ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], March 2 (ANI): Taiwanese social media users and politicians on Monday mocked a Chinese plan to construct a transportation network linking Beijing and Taipei, which many people dubbed as "science fiction" and "daydreaming" by China.
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China to impose more institutional changes to curb democracy in Ho
Updated : 6 days, 4 hours ago IST
Hong Kong, March 2 (ANI): Eight months since Beijing imposed the draconian national security law to curb the pro-democracy movement, authorities have used the legislation to stamp out street protests, ban activists from lobbying foreign governments, gut the legislature and arrest most of the
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Dip in birth rate to hamper China's workforce in coming years
Updated : 6 days, 5 hours ago IST
Beijing [China], March 2 (ANI): Although China's economy looks comparatively strong in the short term, the country however is losing out demographically, as there have been several indications that fewer babies were born in the country in 2020 than in any year since 1961, when it suffered ma
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Big leaders having green tea from China, Japan must be offered Ass
Updated : 2 days, 9 hours ago IST
Tezpur (Assam) [India], March 2 (ANI): The poll campaign of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Assam revolved around tea on Tuesday.
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'Human error, not Chinese cyber attack', says Union Power Minister
Updated : 6 days, 7 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): Union Power Minister R K Singh on Tuesday said that Mumbai power outage of October 2020 was caused by "human error" and there is no evidence to prove that it was trigged due to a cyber attack by China.
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China's fiscal situation 'extremely severe', says ex-finance minis
Updated : 6 days, 9 hours ago IST
Beijing [China], March 2 (ANI): China's fiscal situation is "extremely severe with risks and challenges", former finance minister Lou Jiwei has warned, citing fallout from aggressive US stimulus policies, the global economic slowdown during the pandemic, an ageing Chinese population and moun
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India ranks third in 10th Hurun Global Rich List 2021 with 209 bil
Updated : 6 days, 10 hours ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 2 (ANI): India climbed up to third spot in the Hurun Global Rich List 2021 with 209 billionaires -- 40 more than last year -- with Mukesh Ambani seeing his wealth up 24 per cent to 83 billion dollars (about Rs six lakh crore) on the back of a surge in valu
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China's senior citizens seeking retirement homes scammed
Updated : 6 days, 10 hours ago IST
Washington [US], March 2 (ANI): Rooms and beds for Chinese retirees are in short supply as the population is ageing, leaving many vulnerable to companies pitching risky investments, reported The New York Times.
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Nepal not leaning towards China, wants good ties with India: Forme
Updated : 6 days, 11 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): Former Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on Tuesday assured India that Kathmandu is not leaning towards China and wants good ties with New Delhi while emphasising on strong economic and cultural relations between Indian and Nepal.
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China marches on to militarism and totalitarianism
Updated : 6 days, 14 hours ago IST
Hong Kong, March 2 (ANI): There is growing alarm at the inexorable rise of China, both of its military prowess and its aggressive bullying of other countries plus its subjugation of whole portions of its own population.
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Uyghur activist wins 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Awa
Updated : 6 days, 15 hours ago IST
Bavaria [Germany], March 2 (ANI): Sayragul Sauytbay, a human rights activist and survivor from China's Xinjiang, has been awarded the 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, for highlighting the human rights abuses being meted to ethnoreligious minorities in the country's western re
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COVID-19: Japan asks China to stop anal swab tests on its citizens
Updated : 6 days, 16 hours ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 2 (ANI): Expressing concerns over the coronavirus testing methods, Japan has requested China not to subject Japanese citizens to anal COVID-19 tests after receiving complaints of "psychological distress" from some of them.
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