Tag: Asia Pacific
deadly inter-ethnic clashes in Manipur state
Some 23,000 people have fled ethnic violence in northeastern India that is believed to have left at least 54 people dead, the army said on Sunday (May 7th). Unrest broke…
Xinjiang, a laboratory for the high-tech tracking of Uyghurs
In the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China has taken mass surveillance to the extreme. In a new investigation, the NGO Human Rights Watch illustrates how, thanks to sophisticated technologies, the police…
Constitution, diplomacy, Mauriac… Letter from the readers of L’Express
Macron in China Jean-Michel Benard, Chatillon (Hauts-de-Seine) I was delighted to read the article on “Gribouille’s diplomacy” as I was surprised by the content of the President of the Republic’s…
Chinese billionaire entrepreneur Jack Ma to teach at Japanese university
Jack Ma, Chinese billionaire founder of the giant Alibaba, took his first steps on May 1 at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He landed a visiting professorship, and it’s not…
Scandals, defeats and financial crisis: the disappointed hopes of Chinese football
Atmosphere of jubilation, this April 15, in the new stadium of the Workers, in Beijing. The capital club, Beijing Guoan, hosts the Meizhou team, Hakka FC. The 68,000 tickets were…
Japanese workers dream of being able to disconnect after work
Long working days, difficulty disconnecting… In Japan, where each year, 300 to 400 employees die from having worked too much, victims of burnout, Labor Day has a very special connotation.…
UN gathers in Qatar for crucial meeting on Afghanistan
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet from this Monday, May 1 in Doha the special envoys for Afghanistan. Objective: to examine the approach to be adopted with regard to…
Chinese delegation to Ukraine: “Beijing does not seek to mediate”
This is a first since the beginning of the war: China announced, this Wednesday, April 26, that it would send a delegation to Ukraine to seek a “political settlement” of…
Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, executed in Singapore for possession of cannabis
Singapore has just executed a man sentenced to hang five years ago for his involvement in drug trafficking involving a kilogram of cannabis, twice the amount punishable by death in…
after the Rana Plaza drama, a building control system was put in place
Ten years ago, the Rana Plaza accident took place, the deadliest in the recent history of the textile industry. In Bangladesh, on April 24, 2013, 1,134 people died in the…