The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a 72-page report detailing the human rights abuses perpetrated by North Korean police and security officers on North Korean female prisoners. The report contains interviews with more than 100 North Korean female prisoners. Abusing North Korean female prisoners The interviewed women have one ...
Citing national security concerns, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) on August 6, 2020, to prohibit any U.S. company or person from transacting with ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok and messaging app WeChat. The executive orders take effect within 45 days, after which the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, will further ...
Is China facing an unemployment crisis? China’s unemployment rate in June was revealed to be 5.7 percent, which is lower than the February peak of 6.2 percent. The country’s unemployment rate has remained quite stable over the past decades, hovering around 4 percent to 5 percent. As such, the fact that the COVID-19 outbreak only ...
A Singapore national recently pleaded guilty to charges of operating illegally as a foreign agent in the U.S. Yeo Jun Wei Dickson, a former student from the National University of Singapore (NUS), apparently acted on behalf of Chinese intelligence as a Chinese spy to collect sensitive information about the American government and military. Recruitment and ...
Two ethnic anti-CCP activists were recently killed in a car crash in New Zealand while on their way to the Parliament to petition the government about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Three people were left injured in the crash. Some have speculated whether they were victims of sabotage given that the two dead victims, 48-year-old ...
Hackers linked to the Chinese government tried to access data from Moderna, a U.S. COVID-19 vaccine developer. Moderna has been working toward a COVID-19 vaccine since January. The U.S. government is betting big on Moderna, hoping that it would soon release a viable vaccine. Hacking Moderna The U.S. Justice Department has indicted two Chinese nationals ...
Several weeks have passed since Beijing forcefully implemented the National Security Law in Hong Kong, effectively ending the region’s autonomy and reducing it to yet another communist-controlled city. As a consequence, a city that has been regarded as the financial hub of East Asia is at risk of losing the trust of the international business ...
Floods have affected over 54 million people in China and caused damage to the tune of US$20 billion. Rather than comforting the citizens in their worst times, the authorities seem to have decided that silence is the best way to deal with the flood victims. This could easily be categorized as one of the worst ...
A few weeks ago, the Indian government banned 59 Chinese apps on the grounds that they were a threat to national security. The initial ban was triggered by a border conflict that took place between the two nations. Now, New Delhi has banned 47 more apps, which are all variations or clones of the previously ...
Recently, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the closure of the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu. Soon thereafter, the consulate and its staff drew nationwide attention from mainland people. Chuang Tzu-i, the spouse of the U.S. Consul General in Chengdu, looked back at her life in China and shared her memories. Chuang Tzu-i was born in Taiwan. ...
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