Failure of @WHO cost lives and there was an apparent attempt to conceal the COVID19 outbreak by at least one member state (China), @SecAzar tells World Health Assembly
Taiwan president's office targeted in suspected cyberattack
China says it will send a team to Israel to return the body of its ambassador
Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 - 28km WNW of Wenping, China
WHO Director: An independent investigation will be conducted into the response to the Coronavirus "at an appropriate time"
The Chinese President: Any vaccines our country will develop against the Coronavirus will become a public good
China has pledged US$2bn over two years to tackle Covid19, says leader Xi Jinping
1 year agoChinese leader Xi Jinping is speaking at the opening of the WHO's World Health Assembly
Chinese border defense troops have enhanced control measures in the Galwan Valley region along China-India border in response to India's facility construction that crossed into Chinese territories since early May: source
1 year agoMargaret Ng – in court over charges relating to two HongKongProtests – had this to say during a lawyers rally on August 7: "One of the most important things about rule of law is prosecution must not be abused, because if abused it is the most powerful instrument of oppression."
Reuters: TSMC halts Huawei orders after us tightens restrictions - Nikkei
1 year ago"Self autonomy does not exist anymore," said Tanya Chan when pro-democracy lawmakers meet the press after the meeting ends. "The election result has revoked Legco's previous practices, including parliament rules.Pro-establishment camp is the culprit."
Calls for a probe on COVID19 increasing before annual WHO meeting: "A group of more than 50 African nations has also thrown its weight behind the group, meaning 116 countries are co-sponsoring the draft motion."
1 year agoPro-Beijing lawmaker Chan Kin-por who chairs a chaotic House Committee meeting has announced that DAB Starry Lee has won the House Committee chair election, after he orderd security guards to remove pan-dem lawmakers from the meeting one after another
1 year agoPro-Beijing lawmaker Starry Lee is elected as Legco's house committee chairwoman by vote 40-nil, where pro-democracy lawmakers are either thrown out or have boycotted the voting
1 year agoThe remaining lawmakers - largely from the pro-Beijing camp - cast their votes in the election of the House Committee chair, as Labour Party lawmaker Fernando Cheung continues to chant "Chan Kin-por is cheating."
1 year agoWith only a handful of democrats left in the meeting room, the House Committee moves ahead with the election of its chair, as LegCo staff hand out ballot papers
1 year agoRay Chan of People Power is taken out of the meeting room by security
1 year agoIT sector lawmaker Charles Mok is also taken out of the meeting room by security
1 year agoWu Chi-wai from the Democratic Party is taken out of the meeting room by security
1 year agoCivic Party's Alvin Yeung is taken out of the meeting room by security
1 year agoDemocrat Claudia Mo temporarily bypasses the line of security guards to speak to Chan Kin-por, as Andrew Wan from the Democratic Party sits on the floor refusing to leave
1 year agoPro-Beijing lawmakers have started a rival chant: "Chan Kin-por, good job."
1 year agoPro-democracy lawmaker Eddie Chiu is taken out of the meeting room by security
Several diplomatic sources cautioned that putting Taiwan issue to a vote during a short, virtual meeting would be an unsurmountable logistical challenge and would "torpedo" the entire WHO assembly
1 year agoHongKong pro-democracy lawmakers scuffle with security guards as one member of the camp after another is ordered out of a House Committee meeting. Proceedings are adjourned as Chu Hoi-dick lies injured on the floor.
62 countries, including Ukraine, are demanding an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus
Professor at the University of Cleveland arrested for his financial relationship with China
1 year agoAmerican journalists in HongKong "are members of a free press, not propaganda cadres, and their valuable reporting informs Chinese citizens and the world," says @SecPompeo in a statement directed at Beijing
In China, Wuhan revealed 28 asymptomatic infected with coronavirus - authorities
1 year agoChina is sending a special team to Israel following the sudden death of its Ambassador to Israel Du Wei, at his residence in Tel Aviv this morning.
1 year agoIsrael police has no suspicion of a foul play in the case of the deceased Chinese ambassador. Foreign Ministry is in contact with Beijing
Chinese ambassador body was found in his residence in Israel
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 71km W of Zhamog, China
