Hong Kong Leader Rejects Protesters’ Call for Independent Police Probe The Beijing-backed leader of Hong Kong on Friday ruled out an independent inquiry into allegations of police brutality against pro-democracy… 05/16/2020 Aimeast
US Intensifies Crackdown on China Intellectual Property Theft The U.S. Justice Department is aggressively forging ahead with a clampdown on Chinese economic espionage even as the coronavirus pandemic… 05/16/2020 Aimeast
Typhoon Vongfong Kills at Least One, Damages Homes in Philippines Officials in the Philippines say strong winds and rain from Typhoon Vongfong killed at least one person and damaged hundreds of homes and coronavirus isolation facilities when… 05/15/2020 Aimeast
Taliban Say They Don’t Have Missing US Contractor Taliban leaders searched their ranks, including the much-feared Haqqani network, and on Sunday told the Associated Press they are not… 05/15/2020 Aimeast
US on Track to Pull Troops From Afghanistan Despite Turmoil The United States is on track to withdraw several thousand troops from Afghanistan as agreed in February, even as violence… 05/15/2020 Aimeast
Aid Agencies Ramp Up Efforts to Tackle Coronavirus in Rohingya Refugee Camps U.N. aid agencies are intensifying COVID-19 operations to prevent the spread of the deadly disease in the Rohingya refugee camps… 05/15/2020 Aimeast
US Pilot Jailed in Singapore for Breaking Quarantine Order An American cargo pilot who admitted to "poor judgment" in breaking a quarantine order to buy medical supplies became the… 05/15/2020 Aimeast
Communist Rebels Fight Hard as Ever in Philippines As COVID-19 Distracts Government Armed communist rebels are exploiting the Philippine government’s fight against COVID-19 to launch attacks, intensifying a violent 50-year-plus struggle with… 05/15/2020 Aimeast
COVID Emerges in Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh A Rohingya refugee in the massive Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh has tested positive for COVID-19.A local resident has… 05/15/2020 Aimeast
Myanmar Migrants Rescued in Thailand Twenty Myanmar trafficked migrants stranded at the Thai-Malaysia border for two months have been rescued, according to an official of… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Asia Democracies Show Alternatives to Beijing’s Heavy-Handed COVID Strategy China is touting its success in curbing its outbreak of COVID-19 that has now spread to the rest of the… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Trump Eyes China Crackdown as Coronavirus Retribution U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he is eyeing ways to crack down on China as retribution for the way… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Why Open a store? Chinese Merchants Go Livestreaming Instead At the height of China's coronavirus outbreak, the skincare-products maker Forest Cabin closed more than half of its 300 stores… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
‘I Am Truly Devastated’: Volunteers Breastfeed Babies Left Motherless in Kabul Attack Medical staff in the Afghan capital, Kabul, have been caring for newborn babies left motherless in a deadly attack on… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Japan Lifts COVID State of Emergency for Much of Country A nationwide state of emergency imposed in Japan to blunt the coronavirus pandemic has been lifted with the exception of… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Taliban Respond to Ghani’s Statement with Attack A Taliban attack on an Afghan army compound in Gardez city of Paktia province Thursday morning killed at least five… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Australian Parliamentary Committee Debunks 5G COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory An Australian parliamentary report has debunked a conspiracy theory linking COVID-19 to 5G technology. Anti-lockdown protesters in Australia and beyond… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Malaysia Postpones No-Confidence Vote Against Prime Minister A parliamentary no-confidence vote against Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will not take place next week as previously scheduled.Speaker Mohamad… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
2G Internet Stifling Education, Work in Indian Kashmir Every day, Khalid Fayaz downloads text files from his email on a smartphone, transfers them to his laptop with a data cable, edits them, then transfers… 05/14/2020 Aimeast
Deadly Attack on Afghan Mothers, Babies Threatens Peace Prospects Amid a spate of recent deadly attacks across Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani has ordered his national forces into "offensive" mode… 05/14/2020 Aimeast