by Tyler | Dec 28, 2019 | Airplane crash, airplanes, Asia, Bek Air, deaths, kazakhstan, National Security, Trending
A plane carrying 98 people from Kazakhstan crashed into a building shortly after its takeoff on Friday morning, killing at least a dozen people and injuring over 50 more.
by Tyler | Dec 27, 2019 | Asia, China, diplomacy, Gulf of Oman, Iran, Israel / Middle East, Middle East politics, Politics, Russia, Trending
China, Russia and Iran will hold joint naval drills starting Friday in the Gulf of Oman, Beijing said, at a time of heightened tensions since the US withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran.
by Tyler | Dec 27, 2019 | aircraft carrier, Asia, Beijing, China, National Security, South China Sea, Taiwan, Taiwan Strait, Trending
China sailed its newest aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait for the second time on Thursday as it stepped up its claims in the South China Sea, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry has announced.
by Tyler | Dec 24, 2019 | Asia, China, China concentration camps, communism, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Protests, National Security, Trending, Uyghur, Xinjiang
Hong Kong police violently repressed a protest attracting an estimated thousand people Sunday against the use of concentration camps to eliminate the ethnic Uyghur minority of western China, beating protesters with batons and threatening to shoot them.
by Tyler | Dec 23, 2019 | Asia, CCP, China, China concentration camps, china trade, Chinese Communist Party, forced labor, Laogai, London / Europe, Politics, Tesco, Trending
British supermarket chain Tesco has suspended production at a factory in China after a letter from alleged slave labourers was discovered in a box of charity Christmas cards. Tesco has come under fire after a six-year-old girl in London, Florence
by Tyler | Dec 21, 2019 | Asia, China, communism, hacking, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, National Security, Trending
The secretary-general of the Hong Kong democracy movement Demosisto, Joshua Wong, accused the Hong Kong police on Thursday of hacking into his mobile phone and illegally obtaining evidence against him in his upcoming trial.
