Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year (www.reuters.com)
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How health burdens have shifted over 4 decades: Infections down in India, lifestyle disorders up in China, and rising mental health issues in the U.S. (aditya-dahiya.github.io)
The dataset from Our World in Data provides comprehensive information on Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for various health conditions. The data is sourced from the IHME’s Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study and spans from 1990 to 2021. It was last updated on May 20, 2024. Detailed data can be retrieved from the Global...
EU should add China's Xinjiang region and the aluminum sector to Forced Labor Database, rights groups says (www.hrw.org)
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"Their goal Is total ethnic cleansing of the Gaza people": Physician Mustafa Barghouti on Israel’s expulsion order for Gaza City (www.democracynow.org)
A panel of United Nations independent experts has accused Israel of engaging in a campaign of starvation and genocide in Gaza as the effects of the famine are being felt across Gaza. Palestinian physician and activist Mustafa Barghouti says “what we see today is a purposeful act of starvation” and that the real intention of...
Taiwan monitors Chinese military surge, calls China a threat to stability (www.rappler.com)
In its daily update on Chinese military activity over the past 24 hours, released on Thursday morning, Taiwan’s defense ministry said it had detected 66 Chinese military aircraft around the island....
In a first, Japan arrests Russian national over suspected illegal exports of technology that could be diverted for military use in Russia's war in Ukraine (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
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Latvian and Estonian court documents show how the Russian government is recruiting Baltic citizens to vandalize and set fire to targets in the West (theins.press)
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Gaza death toll: how many Palestinians has Israel's campaign killed (www.reuters.com)
Russian attack on Children's Hospital in Kyiv: Molfar OSINT group identifies 95 war criminals involved in the shelling, publishes their names and personal details (molfar.com)
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More Taiwanese detained or face trials when traveling to China since Beijing implemented 'Anti-Espionage Law' (www.taipeitimes.com)
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After nine months of war in Gaza, another UN school suffers Israeli airstrike (news.un.org)
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China’s spluttering growth engines: The distortions of Beijing’s unbalanced growth model are coming home to roost, setting the country on path towards ever greater trade confrontation (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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Philippines and Japan sign defence pact, with eyes on China (www.euractiv.com)
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Xi Jinping visits Kazakhstan and Tajikistan for SCO summit (www.helsinkitimes.fi)
I’m curious how the Russian Federation feels regarding the People’s Republic of China attempting to curry favor in Central Asia
Human Rights NGOs urge Austria to investigate sexual crimes by Russia military in Ukraine (www.jurist.org)
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Former head of the EU Chamber of Commerce in Beijing: "The playing field for China is getting narrower and narrower" (themarket.ch)
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Russia: jailed Kremlin-critic Kara-Murza transfered to prison hospital, laywers denied access (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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China has installed a buoy in the seas over Japan's southern continental shelf in the Pacific Ocean, in a move that could undermine Japan's maritime interests and further strain bilateral relations (mainichi.jp)
-Japan confirmed that the Chinese survey ship Xiang Yang Hong 22 set up the buoy in mid-June while monitoring the vessel as it sailed through Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, a government source said. The open-sea area in question is surrounded by Japan’s EEZ....
Increasingly Isolated US Leans on Anglophone Countries Instead of Policy Changes (truthout.org)
Foreign companies consider moving Taiwanese employees out of China after Beijing said it could impose the death penalty on “die-hard” Taiwanese independence advocates (www.taipeitimes.com)
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‘Peace mission’: Hungary’s Orban meets Putin in Russia, defying EU leaders (www.aljazeera.com)
France: arts festival organizers say they received protests and threats from China after selecting Taiwan as its ‘guest of honour country’ for this year's event (focustaiwan.tw)
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Indonesia to impose up to 200% tariffs to counter cheap textile imports from China after protests of Indonesian workers (www.bloomberg.com)
Indonesia is preparing to impose tariffs and use other means to protect its textile industry from imports from China, the latest in a series of countries and blocs such as the US and the European Union, which are responding to the flood of goods out of the world’s largest manufacturing nation....
Hurricane Beryl roars toward Jamaica after battering southeast Caribbean islands (www.npr.org)
China and Russia jointly develop strike drones, Ukraine allies worry about Beijing may boost production, European officials say (eutoday.net)
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