China starts selling ultra-long bonds to raise 1 trillion yuan
China on Friday sold 30-year treasury bonds as part of a massive 1 trillion yuan (US$138 billion) sale of ultra-long bonds aimed at supporting the...
Month : May 2024
Mid-May frost damages crops in northern North Korea
A late-spring frost, combined with a severe lack of manpower in rural parts of North Korea, is a major setback this year in a country...
Putin talks tech, energy cooperation in China’s Harbin
Flanked by goose-stepping Chinese soldiers, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a bunch of red roses at a World War II memorial to Soviet soldiers in...
About 30 Rohingya killed in clashes between Myanmar junta, insurgents
About 30 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority have been killed in clashes between junta forces and ethnic minority Buddhist insurgents, residents of Rakhine State said...
Gas nears US$50 per gallon amid clashes in Kachin state
Fighting between ethnic rebels and the military has cut off access to the district of Puta-O in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state, trapping more than 100,000...
Indian authorities in Manipur state force Myanmar refugees out of border villagers
Myanmar refugees who fled civil war and sought refuge in border villages in neighboring India’s Manipur state said they are are being deported by local...
Philippines blasts Beijing’s new trespass rule in contested waters as ‘illegal’
The Philippines hit back Friday against what it called China’s “illegal” new order authorizing its coast guard to detain foreign boats and people suspected of...
Talks between Myanmar rebel alliance, junta, focus on Chinese interests
Representatives of a Myanmar ethnic minority insurgent alliance met junta officials for a fifth round of Chinese-brokered talks, with key issues being Chinese border trade...
North Koreans worked remotely for American companies, US says
The United States on Thursday charged an American citizen, a Ukrainian citizen and three North Koreans with fraud over an elaborate scam that used identity...
Tibetans undergo political education for protesting land grab
Tibetans who protested the seizure of their pasture land by Chinese authorities in Markham county in April have been subjected to a series of political...
