American lawmakers see TikTok as a problem. Yet the bipartisan attack on the short-form video app, owned by China-based ByteDance, really points to two different complications – and each, in turn, opens up a much bigger can of worms. A panel of officials from the House of Representatives grilled TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew on...
Data from the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, briefly uploaded to a database by Chinese scientists, gives information on its origins, including suggesting a role for raccoon dogs in the coronavirus reaching humans, international researchers said. The virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Dec 2019, with many suspecting a live animal market...
Afghanistan's school year started on Tuesday (March 21), the education ministry said, as the UN children's agency renewed calls for teenage girls to be able to rejoin the classroom. A year ago, after signalling that they would open schools for all students, Taliban authorities made a U-turn, leaving many girls who had turned up to their high school...
A Swedish court gave Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other climate activists the go-ahead on Tuesday (March 21) to proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Swedish state for "insufficient climate policy". Thunberg, and 600 other young activists in a group called Aurora, sued the Swedish state in November, claiming it had to do more...
After the lights dim in Budapest's magnificent Opera House, Ukrainian ballerina Ganna Muromtseva flutters high with undulating arms in the lead role of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet. At the end, the audience bursts into applause. One year ago, the 29-year-old dancer fled Ukraine's capital Kyiv on a packed train with thousands of other refugees after the...
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's east coast on Tuesday (March 21), the island's weather bureau said, causing buildings in the capital Taipei to shake briefly but with no immediate reports of damage. The epicentre of the earthquake was in the sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien with a depth of 7.2km, the weather bureau said. Taiwan...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said that Beijing's proposal on how to solve the Ukraine crisis reflects global views and seeks to neutralise consequences, but acknowledged that the solutions are not easy. In an article published at the start of his visit to Moscow - the first by a world leader since the International Criminal...
China's aviation regulator said Monday (March 20) investigators were still looking into the cause of the crash of China Eastern Airlines' Flight MU5735, almost a year after the plane came down, killing all 132 people on board. The Boeing 737-800 crashed into a mountainous region in the southern province of Guangxi on March 21, 2022, in China's deadliest aviation...
Lee Jia Xuan had been on the hunt for a new pair of Apple AirPods Pro Gen 2 when she came across someone selling them for $265 on Carousell – about $100 cheaper than the retail price. While she did suspect that the deal may be too good to be true, the silver-tongued seller managed to convince her the item was genuine. It was only much...
Vladimir Putin hosted his "dear friend" Xi Jinping for dinner at the Kremlin on Monday (March 20), showing off his relationship with his most powerful ally just days after an international court called for the Russian president's arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. Washington denounced Xi's visit, saying the timing indicated Beijing was providing Moscow with...
