Why China and Vietnam Can’t Stop Clashing With Each Other
China and Vietnam are continuing to clash over a maritime sovereignty dispute despite diplomacy and calm being displayed by other claimants to the same sea.The Communist neighbors talk regularly about their differences party-to-party as well as through…
‘Stronger Than Ever’: India Set for Fresh Moon Launch Attempt
SRIHARIKOTA, INDIA – India will make a second attempt Monday to send a landmark spacecraft to the Moon after an apparent fuel leak forced last week’s launch to be aborted.The South Asian nation is bidding to become just the fourth nation � after Russia…
DC Summer Interns Are Hungry for Experience – and Food
Most college students with internships are hungry. For connections. For opportunities. For real food they can eat. They flock to Washington each summer to fulfill internships in fields they hope to enter after graduation. Smart interns know to keep th…
‘This Kind of Attempt to Assimilate Typically Backfires’: Adrian Zenz
Adrian Zenz, a lecturer in social research methods at the Germany-based European School of Culture and Theology, has emerged a leading expert on the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in internment camps in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regio…
US ban on Myanmar army chief not enough, says UN
KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) � A US travel ban on Myanmar’s army chief and three other top officers for their role in orchestrating a crackdown against Rohingyas does not go far enough, a UN rights investigator said.The sanctions announced Tues…
Singapore: Myanmar national who used community club for Arakan Army activities ‘misrepresented’ himself – Home Affairs Ministry
SINGAPORE, One of the deported Myanmar nationals who used a community club in Singapore to mobilise support for an armed group had misrepresented himself when booking the facility, authorities said.Our investigations showed that the individual had mis…
Bangladesh Calls for Financial Sanctions on Myanmar, as Country Pushes for Rohingya Repatriation
WASHINGTON – Bangladesh wants Myanmar to repatriate the nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees who have fled genocide, and a top Bangladeshi official wants international financial sanctions to back it up.Much of the Muslim-majority ethnic group has fled to…