• UNICEF Myanmar Humanitarian Situation Report No.2, 2024 (Reporting period: 1 March to 31 March 2024) - Myanmar

    Situation Report in English on Myanmar about Coordination, Food and

  • Report: China is fueling US fentanyl crisis and U.S. isn’t stopping it

    (The Center Square) – The People’s Republic of China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party “is the ultimate geographic source of the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.,” a new U.S. House report details. The U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party published the new report this week reiterating the findings of a 2020 Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking report, co-led by U.S. Sen. Tom...

  • Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories

    Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories, according to the Apple leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami." In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Kosutami explained that Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories due to its poor durability. The company may move to another non-leather material for its premium accessories in the future. Kosutami has revealed accurate information about FineWoven accessories in the past. The leaker unveiled Apple's plans to...

  • Report: China is exporting digital control methods

    As it exports internet infrastructure, China is expanding its authoritarian model of the web, report says.

  • Report: China Covertly Lobbying Congress on TikTok

    The Chinese Communist Party is secretly lobbying the U.S. Congress regarding TikTok, according to Capitol Hill staffers familiar with the situation.

  • Letter to the editor: Stop China's manufacturing interference

    In my opinion, the Chinese Communist Party and its surrogates are strategically targeting essential American manufacturing, posing a significant threat to America’s industrial defense capabilities.

  • Report: ByteDance to Shut Down TikTok If Legal Efforts Fail

    TikTok owner ByteDance would reportedly rather shut down the social media platform than sell it. That’s what the firm plans to do if it is unsuccessful in its legal efforts to fight legislation that would ban TikTok from app stores in the United States if it is not sold, Reuters reported Thursday (April 25), citing unnamed sources. ByteDance considers TikTok’s […]

    • KGBT

    Progreso candidates fail to file campaign finance reports

    PROGRESO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — All four candidates for the Progreso school board failed to file campaign finance reports in April. The campaign pits Trustee Alejandro “Alex” Alanis and Trustee Olga S. Oviedo against two challengers, Carmen Acosta and Yadira Flores, who are concerned about corruption in Progreso. On Wednesday morning, however, all four candidates had []

  • China Calls Swimmer Doping Reports 'Fake News'

    Beijing on Monday called reports about 23 Chinese swimmers testing positive for a banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 "fake news".The sport was rocked at the weekend by revelations that the swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) -- a prescription heart drug that is banned in athletes because it can enhance performance -- before the Games three years ago.The swimmers were allowed to compete in Tokyo after world governing bodies accepted China's findings that they had...

  • 'Stop buzzing about China': Beijing slams defence plans

    China has slammed plans by the federal government to pump billions of extra dollars into defence over the next decade, urging Australia to abandon its “Cold War mentality”. Defence Minister Richard Marles on Wednesday unveiled the new national defence strategy and investment program that includes naval upgrades, which will increase funding to 2.4 per cent […]

    • RNZ

    Attempt to bar diplomat from Myanmar military junta fails

    Myanmar community members applied to the courts to bar the diplomat from attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

  • How the US failed to stop a Cambodian monkey ‘smuggling conspiracy’

    In 2022, a senior Cambodian official was arrested in New York. Why did the prosecution's case fall apart so spectacularly?