Tag: Greater China
Bahrain offers Pfizer booster for some who got Chinese shots
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain has begun offering a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for some people six months after they...
‘Tracked for life’: China relentless in erasing Tiananmen
BEIJING — The ruling Communist Party’s deadly 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests never ended for Fan Baolin, who served 17 years...
China defends Cambodia relations after US expresses concern
BEIJING — China said Thursday its relationship with Cambodia has made positive contributions to regional peace and stability, after the U.S. expressed concerns about...
Hong Kong police tell foreign hosting firm to remove website
LONDON — A Hong Kong pro-democracy website was temporarily taken down after police warned the Israel-based hosting company that it breached a national security...
Biden’s AI czar focuses on societal risks, preventing harm
Computer scientist Lynne Parker made breakthroughs in getting robots to work together so they could perform difficult missions, like cleaning up after a nuclear...
US agency: Fatal tour bus crash shows safety shortcomings
SALT LAKE CITY — More than a dozen people were thrown out of a tour bus that crashed and rolled on a remote Utah...
Huawei to roll out its own operating system to smartphones
HONG KONG — Huawei is launching its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system on its handsets as it adapts to losing access to Google mobile...
Budapest to rename streets to protest Chinese university
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Budapest city officials are planning to rename streets in an area where a Chinese university loyal to China's Communist Party is...
China reports human case of H10N3 bird flu, a possible first
BEIJING — A man in eastern China has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu,...
Poland: Huawei ex-exec, expert accused of spying for China
WARSAW, Poland — The trial opened in a Warsaw court on Tuesday of two men accused of spying for China — a Chinese citizen...
