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The Pulse | Society | South Asia The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority says it blocked Wikipedia as a result of a 48-hour deadline to take away content material  it mentioned was blasphemous was ignored. Commercial Pakistan’s media regulator mentioned Monday it blocked Wikipedia companies within the nation for hurting Muslim sentiment by not eradicating purportedly …

Below the settlement, the Lao PDR-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Energy Integration Challenge (LTMS-PIP) will import as much as 100MW of renewable hydropower utilizing present interconnections.  That is equal to about 1.5 per cent of Singapore’s peak electrical energy demand in 2020, sufficient to energy about 144,000 four-room HDB flats for a 12 months. …

Commercial Final week, the world assumed that the US and China had been on the way in which to mending ties, with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly set to go to China on February 5. However the look of a Chinese language spy balloon over the skies of …

Though ASEAN chair Indonesia seems to be pushing the bloc to speed up talks with China for a code of conduct to keep away from conflicts within the South China Sea, Beijing’s growing actions in waters of Southeast Asian claimant states would stall an settlement, analysts warned. On the finish …

Commercial The Diplomat creator Mercy Kuo recurrently engages subject-matter consultants, coverage practitioners, and strategic thinkers throughout the globe for his or her numerous insights into U.S. Asia coverage. This dialog with Peter Richardson – director within the Asia Pacific investigations follow at Wallbrook in London – is the 353rd in …

Authorities in China have been holding feminist and LGBTQ+ activist Guo Yi for greater than three months after she caught up posters repeating the protest slogans hung from a Beijing visitors overpass in October by Peng Lifa, often known as the “Bridge Man” protester, a rights group has reported. Peng, …

Commercial On February 2, Japanese International Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Chinese language International Minister Qin Gang held a 50-minute phone conversation, through which they agreed to take care of shut communication “at all levels” and explored learn how to mend bilateral ties. Hayashi and Qin pledged to work towards “constructive …

A Hong Kong courtroom on Monday started the trial of 16 defendants out of a gaggle of 47 former opposition politicians and activists charged with subversion underneath the nationwide safety regulation for collaborating in a democratic major in the summertime of 2020. Former journalist Gwyneth Ho, a 2019 protest motion …

Commercial Beijing admitted {that a} second “unmanned airship” from China has entered different nations’ airspace, this time in Latin America and the Caribbean. That follows a higher-profile incident involving a Chinese language balloon over the continental United States final week. The U.S. army reported {that a} Chinese “surveillance balloon” was …

Commercial Kyrgyzstan’s Neighborhood Improvement and Funding Company (ARIS) reportedly withdrew a grievance it had filed in opposition to award-winning outlet Kloop on February 2, a day after the information web site acquired two letters from the Ministry of Tradition and the nation’s communications regulator demanding the elimination of an article. …

Commercial Proper now, one of the vital necessary and thrilling areas of worldwide politics is China. Nonetheless, relating to main occasions in China, there’s a tendency amongst Western media and analysts to look at these occasions solely by a Chinese language context. Occasions and developments equivalent to a declining birthrate, …

Commercial U.S. Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin’s latest go to to Manila grabbed worldwide headlines following the joint Philippine-U.S. announcement to speed up the implementation of the Enhanced Protection Cooperation Settlement. The settlement, initially made in 2014, permits the US to construct and function services on Philippine navy bases, however …