“Sometimes the ships need replenishment – like fuel, food and water. So, they berth in a third country port, which is normal. So, the Indian government shouldn’t make any fuss about it. Indian Ocean is not India’s Ocean,” asserted Mr Zhou, who is now with the Tsinghua university in Beijing. BBC
A Voice of America journalist Wenhao, who specialises in Chinese online disinformation, posted on X that the “biggest US related news on China’s internet for the past few days is Texas governor declaring war with the federal government, which did not happen in reality”. BBC
With their close ties to the military, the Godfather-esque “four families” in Laukkaing developed extensive business networks in Myanmar, with stakes in mining, energy, infrastructure and casinos in other countries like Cambodia. They established links with organised crime networks in Macao and south-eastern China. BBC
But Judge Chan turned it down, describing the idea as “not even a restructuring proposal, much less a fully formulated proposal”. Instead she ordered the start of the process to unwind Evergrande, appointing liquidators at Alvarez & Marsal Asia to oversee it. BBC
In an interview with the BBC Radio 4’s Front Row this month, filmmaker Lulu Wang mentioned how the team treaded carefully on the political scenes of the show. “We shot most of the political stuff in Los Angeles, it’s definitely challenging. You know there is a lot of questions of like ‘Can you show this’, ‘What can you not’,” says Wang. “We worked with legal teams to really guide us, because you have to do it responsibly also, and there’s so many people who are working on it, who live…
“I do not think honey traps are any more prevalent now than at other points in time. Part of espionage work has always exploited human weaknesses, be it greed, lust, pride, vanity, anger, disappointment or such,” Ian Chong, a non-resident fellow with Carnegie China, told the BBC. BBC
“Our consumer research indicates SK-II brand sentiment is improving, and we expect to see sequential improvement in the back half,” the company’s chief financial officer, Andre Schulten, was quoted as saying on the company’s earnings conference call. BBC
“It’s not a surprise. They’ve got one of the lowest fertility rates in the world so this is just what happens – the population stops growing and starts to decline,” said Prof Stuart Gietl-Basten, a population policy expert at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. BBC
Some 200-odd statues have been stashed away in a riverside park south of the capital Taipei. Here, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is standing, sitting, in marshal’s uniform, in scholars’ robes, astride a stallion, surrounded by adoring children, and in his dotage leaning on a walking stick. BBC
Eric Chu, the chairman of Taiwan’s main opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), accused the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) government of fear-mongering, especially with the use of the term “missile” in the English version of the alert. It read: “[Air raid alert] Missile flyover Taiwan airspace, be aware.” BBC