Muslim internment camps have sparked shock and anger throughout the International Community. Ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic muslim minorities primarily make up the one million people forced to live in these camps (Chinese officials claim the actual number is significantly smaller). The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the U.S.’s horror over the issue has caused China… Read more »
Stephen Biegun, visiting South Korea, reiterates commitment to work together to end North’s nuclear programme. 29 Oct 2018
China’s economic growth cooled to its weakest quarterly pace since the global financial crisis, with regulators moving quickly to calm nervous investors as a campaign to tackle debt risks and the trade war with the United States began to bite.
An Indonesian aircraft with 189 people on board crashed into the sea and sank on Monday soon after taking off from the capital, Jakarta. All passengers and crew are feared dead, according to the country’s rescue agency.
China on Tuesday issued an ardent defence of the alleged mass internment of minorities in its far west Xinjiang region, with a regional official insisting that authorities are saving Muslims from the lure of religious extremism.