China revises conscription law, eyeing Taiwan conflict
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Veteran soldiers, tech-savvy students expected to play key roles Chinese People's Liberation Army troops prepare to lay flowers at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Beijing to mark Martyrs' Day in September 2021. © ReutersYUKIO TAJIMA, Nikkei staff writerMay 1, 2023 19:53 JST BEIJING -- China on Monday enacted revisions to its military service law that will allow retired ...
Exclusive: HSBC reaches deal to buy out China fund partner -sources
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May 9, 2023 7:17 AM GMT+7 By Selena Li HSBC's logo is seen on its headquarters in Hong Kong, China August 4, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo HONG KONG, May 8 (Reuters) - HSBC (HSBA.L) has agreed to buy out its China fund management joint venture partner, two people familiar with the matter said, as the Asia-focused bank pushes ahead with expansion in ...
Singapore taps HSBC, Citi for rigid money laundering controls
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City's lawmakers pass bill paving way for banks to cross-share information The largest financial institutions operating in Singapore are to use the new information-sharing system, voluntarily at first. © Reuters DYLAN LOH, Nikkei staff writerMay 9, 2023 16:57 JST SINGAPORE -- Foreign and local banks in Singapore will be required to share information with one another on ...
Detained Japanese businessman was spy, Chinese envoy says
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Wu Jianghao calls on Tokyo to formulate 'autonomous' China policy Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on April 28. (Photo by Kohei Fujimura) KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondentApril 28, 2023 15:35 JST TOKYO -- The detention of a Japanese employee of drugmaker Astellas Pharma in China involves espionage, Beijing's new ...
China widens ‘already breathtaking’ scope to arrest foreigners for espionage
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Authorities can swoop over anything they deem relevant to national security in toughening of law already used against expatriates or Chinese contacts Cheng Lei, an Australian journalist who is being held in China under espionage laws. Further amendments have widened to scope to investigate individuals, especially in regard to cyber security. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/APHelen Davidson in Taipei Thu 27 Apr ...
China targets foreign consulting companies in anti-spying raids
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State media report suggests growing suspicions of firms involved in due diligence and business research industries A surveillance camera in front of an office building, where the office of Capvision is located, in Shanghai, China. Photograph: Aly Song/ReutersHelen Davidson in Taipei Tue 9 May 2023 06.23 BSTChinese authorities appear to be running a targeted espionage investigation of foreign consulting firms operating ...
What We Know About the Chinese Diplomat Involved in Threat Against MP Chong’s Family
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The Chinese Consulate in Toronto is seen on April 25, 2023. (Andrew Chen/The Epoch Times) By Andrew Chen May 7, 2023 Updated: May 7, 2023Following a recent media article reporting that Zhao Wei, a Chinese consul in Toronto, was involved in threatening Conservative MP Michael Chong’s family members in Hong Kong, there have been calls to expel Zhao from Canada. ...
Canada Declares Chinese Diplomat ‘Persona Non Grata’ Over Threat to MP’s Family
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Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 27, 2023. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick) By Noé Chartier May 8, 2023 Updated: May 8, 2023 Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei, who has reportedly been involved in targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong and threatening his family members ...
Vietnam data storage law rankles Big Tech and CPTPP trade bloc
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China-like restrictions set companies scrambling in key test of Pacific trade deal Vietnam's regulations forcing companies to store user data on domestic servers are expected to affect social media platforms like Google's YouTube and Meta's Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. (Photo by Lien Hoang) LIEN HOANG, Nikkei staff writerSeptember 15, 2022 13:10 JST HO CHI MINH CITY -- Technology companies are scrambling ...
Vietnam wants Facebook, YouTube, TikTok users to verify identities
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News coincides with authoritarian state's plan for sweeping probe of TikTok The Vietnamese government says individuals and groups will have to confirm their identities for social media accounts to fight human trafficking and other crimes. (Source photos by AP and Reuters) LIEN HOANG, Nikkei staff writerMay 9, 2023 14:47 JST HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam plans to ...
Russian strike destroys Red Cross warehouse with humanitarian aid
Posted 08/05/2023 | No Comment
08.05.2023 15:25 A warehouse with humanitarian aid from the Ukrainian Red Cross Society was completely destroyed in Odesa region as a result of a missile strike on May 8.That's according to the press service of the Odesa regional organization of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, Ukrinform reports."As a result of a missile strike in Odesa region on 08.05.2023, the leased warehouse ...
'I Didn't Know He Was Dead': Hundreds Of Wagner Mercenaries Have Been Quietly Buried In An Isolated Russian Cemetery
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May 05, 2023 12:42 GMTBy RFE/RL's Idel.Realities Journalists reported 607 graves of Wagner fighters in a cemetery in the southern Krasnodar region "I didn't know he was dead," said Nadezhda Skaleyush after learning that her father's grave had been found in a cemetery for Russian mercenaries killed in Ukraine. "But the date on the grave is his."Skaleyush had no idea that ...
U.S. Patriot System Behind Downing of Russian Hypersonic Missile: Ukraine
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BY JAMES BICKERTON ON 5/6/23 AT 12:14 PM EDT Soldiers stand in front of a PATRIOT (Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target) surface-to-air missile system during a military exercise at Warsaw Babice Airport, Poland on February 7, 2023. Ukraine claims it used a PATRIOT system to down a Russian hypersonic missile.JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/GETTY Ukraine has confirmed it successfully shot down ...
RAINING HELL Apocalyptic footage shows Bakhmut streets on fire as Ukraine accuses Putin of using horror white phosphorous bombs
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4The footage shows Bakhmut ablaze and covered in bright sparksIona Cleave Published: 17:04, 6 May 2023RUSSIA has been accused of raining a fiery hell of phosphorous bombs down on besieged Bakhmut in a last bid to take the small city.Apocalyptic-style drone footage released by the Ukrainian military appears to show the battered eastern Ukrainian city ablaze after allegedly being coated in ...
HELL ON EARTH Inside Russia’s sick ‘Nazi-style ghettos’ where Ukrainians are ‘forced to work or fight’ & infected are ‘left to die’
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Rebecca HusselbeePublished: 10:13, 8 May 2023Updated: 10:13, 8 May 2023 THOUSANDS of Ukrainians are being housed in Putin’s chilling “Nazi-style” filtration camps where they are “forced to work or fight on the frontline” and the “sick are left to die”. A haunting report shared with The Sun by Ukrainian military investigations site Molfar revealed the shocking conditions of the detention camps that have been ...
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