The Taipei Times3d
Taiwan minister visits Brussels defying China’s isolation push
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung started his weeklong trip to Europe with a stop in Brussels, a visit that ...
PETER VAN ONSELEN: The volatile election X factor that has both Albo and Peter Dutton worried
Whether the next Australian federal election comes early (in February or March) or in May as the PM promised, the campaign ...
As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas
WASHINGTON — Yu Miao smiles as he stands among the 10,000 books crowded on rows of bamboo shelves in his newly reopened ...
The Canadian Press on MSN2d
Halifax security forum gathers as Trump’s support for Taiwan, Ukraine in question
HALIFAX - Uncertainty is a key theme this year at the annual, three-day gathering in Halifax of political leaders, defence ...
Counterfire6h
The German malaise: Deindustrialisation, a rising right, and a weakened left
The political and economic crisis in Europe’s largest economy is profound, and the need for a stronger left greater than ever ...
Jimmy Lai: 5 things about Hong Kong’s most famous prisoner and most infamous law
Starting as a factory worker, Lai eventually founded Next Digital, which published Apple Daily, a newspaper known for its ...
Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial
More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on ...
AFP on MSN5d
Hong Kong court jails 45 democracy campaigners on subversion charges
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday jailed all 45 defendants convicted of subversion in the city's largest national security trial, ...
The 20 most memorable John Prescott quotes: 'I have changed. I no longer keep the coal in the bath...I keep it in the bidet'
The former Labour deputy prime minister, who died yesterday aged 86, was a formidable debater and also famous for cracking ...
scmp.com4d
Do the Communist Party’s ties in Africa pay economic dividends for China?
African countries with closer party-to-party relations with China’s Communist Party also tend to enjoy stronger economic relations with the Asian economic giant, analysts say. Since the end of ...
Dezeen3d
Dezeen Awards China 2024 Designers of the Year shortlist revealed
Designers of the Year winners will be announced live at our annual Dezeen Awards China party in mid-December in Shanghai. This year's party will be hosted at Shanghai's historic site of Zhang Yuan ...