Gabrielle Reyes

Chinese youth have become "addicted" to learning about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) history through smartphone app games promoted by the Chinese government, the state mouthpiece Global Times claimed Thursday.

The German biotech company BioNTech urged Taiwan to remove the word "country" from a joint press release that would have announced a now-scrapped vaccine deal between the East Asian nation and BioNtech, Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Thursday.

The Facebook-owned instant messaging application WhatsApp sued the Indian federal government on Wednesday to challenge newly passed regulations by New Delhi that could allow Indian security officials the right to trace people’s private messages.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have installed camera systems in police stations across China's westernmost territory, Xinjiang, that allegedly use artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition software to detect people's emotional states, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

The Philippine federal government ordered local clinics not to disclose which brand of Chinese coronavirus vaccine a person will receive until he or she arrives for a vaccine appointment, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Tuesday.

Police from the Indian national capital territory, Delhi, visited two Twitter India offices in the capital area on Monday allegedly to seek information about Twitter’s decision last week to label a tweet by India's ruling party spokesman as “manipulated media.

Police in China arrested three people over the weekend for allegedly posting remarks online deemed "insulting" to late Chinese agronomist Yuan Longping, credited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with curbing famine in the country.

Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) erupted on Saturday killing at least 22 people and sending thousands of others fleeing to neighboring Rwanda.

Jammu and Kashmir, India,declared an epidemic of the fungal infection mucormycosis, also known as "black fungus," on Monday after the disease was found to be closely linked to a recent surge in Chinese coronavirus cases in the area.

A bomb blast killed at least six people and injured 14 more at a pro-Palestinian rally in southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province on Friday, local government officials said.

A town in northern Thailand announced Thursday it will offer its residents the chance to win a live calf each week over the next six months if they receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccination.

Police in the central Indian district of Gadchiroli killed at least 15 members of a Maoist terror group on Friday in "a fierce gun battle," the Hindustan Times reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday that Russia will "knock the teeth out" of everyone who tries to take a "bite" out of his country's vast territory.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday dismissedreports this week of a recent military buildup by China along its border with India as a “routine” activity. “[I]t is routine for the Indian and Chinese armies to make deployments along the border

Samoa’s expected new prime minister said Thursday she plans to cancel a China-backed port development project on the island worth $100 million out of concern Samoa is already overly indebted to Beijing.

Malawi's government on Wednesday burned 19,610 expired doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.

Hong Kong's High Court on Thursday denied a trial by jury for the first person charged under the city'snational security law.

A spokeswoman for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state health sector encouraged people in the country to receive a third "booster" dose of the Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine candidate "Sinopharm" on Tuesday, despite the fact that Sinopharm officially requires just two doses.

Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it plans to invest nearly $1 billion in economic support to African nations this year.

Saudi Arabia's government will require people to prove that they have received a Chinese coronavirus vaccination before they are allowed to enter "any governmental, private, or educational establishments" or use public transportation starting August 1, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported

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