The new Tiangong team will carry out experiments with an eye to the space program’s ambitious goal of placing astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and eventually constructing a lunar base. The Shenzhou-19 mission took off with its trio of space explorers at 4:27 am (2027 GMT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in […]
The Indian government has dismissed Canada’s prior accusations as baseless, denying any involvement. The Washington Post newspaper first reported that Canadian officials alleged Shah was behind a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh separatists in Canada. Canadian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison said to a parliamentary panel on Tuesday that he told the […]
The sale, which awaits approval by Congress, includes several anti-aircraft systems, including NASAMS and 123 missiles totaling $1.16 billion, according to the agency responsible for the sale. The agency also announced the sale of radar systems to Taiwan worth $828 million. The equipment will be derived from US Air Force supplies. While the United States […]
The summit is the biggest such meeting in Russia since it ordered troops into Ukraine and comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to demonstrate that Western attempts to isolate Moscow over the two-and-a-half-year offensive have failed. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — all key […]
Brent crude futures rose 8 cents, or 0.11%, to $73.14 a barrel by 0120 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 10 cents, or 0.14% to $69.32 a barrel. Brent had settled down more than 7% lower last week, while WTI lost around 8%. That marked the contracts’ biggest weekly decline since Sept. 2, […]
The sell-off came as the commodity is hit by worries about China’s economic outlook after Beijing failed to announce any new stimulus at a weekend briefing, nor provide details on a raft of measures unveiled at the end of last month. However, equity traders were broadly upbeat, pushing most Asian markets higher after another record […]
Beijing has not ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control and Monday’s drills represent its fourth round of large-scale war games in the past two years. The United States said China’s actions were “unwarranted” and risk “escalation” as it called on Beijing to act with restraint. Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, who took […]
TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, said Friday it would cut several hundred jobs around the world, without providing a breakdown by country. Less than 500 jobs in Malaysia are expected to be affected by the move. A TikTok spokesperson said that the job cuts were part of an effort to boost content moderation. “We expect […]
The highly anticipated stimulus came on top of a series of measures announced over the last weeks that have included interest rate cuts and liquidity for banks. Despite the scale of the package, Finance Minister Lan Fo’an said China could dig deeper. “At present, we are accelerating the use of additional treasury bonds, and ultra-long-term […]
Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, brushing off rival claims of several Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines among them, and an international ruling that its assertion has no legal basis. Its claims include the waters around Scarborough Shoal — which Beijing seized from Manila in 2012 — where the Chinese military’s Southern Theater […]
