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SPECIAL 2022: Lanka falls into Chinese Debt Trap

With Sri Lankan debts to China in excess of $8 billion, the room for manoeuvre for the government of the day was already quite limited…writes Sumit Kumar Singh For some South Asian

January 3, 2022

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Unicef delivers over 100mn Covid vaccines to B’desh

Unicef said on Wednesday that it has delivered over 100 million Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh since June this year…reports Asian Lite News “The arrival today of 20.46 million doses of vaccines from

December 30, 2021

Bangladesh·COVID-19·News

Taiwan Prez condemns China over HK raid

Expressing her regret over the detention, she called on the international community to stand up for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong….reports Asian Lite News Taiwanese President Tsai-Ing-wen has condemned China for

December 30, 2021

-Top News·China

China uses AI to misuse civilian data for military purposes

China recently submitted a position paper on regulating the military applications of artificial intelligence to the sixth review conference of the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)….reports Asian Lite News

December 30, 2021

-Top News·China

China tightens travel curbs in Tibet ahead of Winter Olympics

China’s Information Service last week had announced that visitors to the country will be strictly monitored during the Olympic games….reports Asian Lite News Chinese officials have tightened travel curbs in the Tibet

December 30, 2021

-Top News·China

Will India-China relations take a different turn in the coming year?

The Chinese state-owned news organization also said that the challenge for both sides “is not who will replace whom but how to work together to strengthen their positions in the global supply

December 30, 2021

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Tibet is China’s dumping ground for toxic waste

At least a third of the region could melt due to the climate crisis, predicted a report released by International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)…reports Asian Lite News. The Chinese Communist

December 29, 2021

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Thousands under secret surveillance in China

Caster estimated that in 2020, between 10,000 and 15,000 people went through the system, up from just 500 in 2013…reports Asian Lite News. Campaigners say China has ‘systematised arbitrary and secret detention’

December 29, 2021

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India’s former envoy to China appointed Deputy NSA

The last Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) meeting took place in November this year…reports Asian Lite News. Vikram Misri, a 1989 batch Indian Foreign Service officer,

December 28, 2021

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China steps up secret residential surveillance

The number includes well-known names like artist Ai Wei Wei and human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Wang Quanzhang, who were caught up in China’s 2015 crackdown on human rights defenders….reports Asian

December 28, 2021

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