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Merdan Ghappar’s texts and videos expose scandalizing conditions in Xinjiang internment camps Rare footage and text contents secretly is sending out a detained Uighur man show cool evidence of human rights violations by China, as world scrutiny of the situation in Xinjiang grows. According to reportsby the BBC and the …

Labor’s Penny Wong says PM should ‘pick up the phone’ to US president and Mike Pompeo warns Victoria over cooperation in China’s Belt and Road project Labor has called on Scott Morrison to pick up the phone to Donald Trump to pursue concerns the US president’s trade deal with China …

Worst GDP fall on record comes after months of paralysis as the country went into lockdown to contain coronavirus Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage China’s economy shrank 6.8% in the three months of 2020, the country’s first such contraction on record and a stark sign of the …

New Zealand PM says Australia is deporting’ your people and your problems’ using unfair policies The New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has flogged Scott Morrison for “testing” the friendship between the two nations, accusing Australia of evicting “your people and your problems” using “unfair” policies. Ardern took her strongest …

Passengers on Diamond Princess face at least another nine periods in quarantine Coronavirus- live updates Another 66 passengers onboard a indulgence cruise liner quarantined in Japan have be positive for coronavirus, bringing the number of infected people on the ship to 136. Japanese health officials indicated by the new diagnoses …

South Korean satire directed by Bong Joon-ho wipes top loot after likewise winning best director, international movie and original screenplay Oscars 2020- live !Oscar wins 2020: full list After an awards season marked by its predictability, the Oscars delivered a spectacular final-reel twist on Sunday evening, naming capitalist satire Parasite …

Death toll rises to 82 as mayor of Wuhan admits authorities were too slow in releasing information about virus. Follow the latest developments Wuhan mayor admits mistakesWhat is the coronavirus and how frets should we be about it ?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infection 12.46 am GMT China’s largest …

Mulan combats her way out of controversy, Pixar jam-packs with a jazz Coco and Keanu Reeves stars opposite SpongeBob Squarepants in next year’s most promising kids’ flicks More of “the worlds largest” foresaw films of 2020 We had a pretty good version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches in 1990, but …

News agency says diplomatic dispatches belie claims that so-called’ consolation women’ worked willingly The Japanese imperial legion asked the government to provide one wartime sex slave for every 70 soldiers serving in China in the late 1930 s, according to dispatches that offer evidence of official involvement in the recruitment …

Fishermen report hear’ snouts in the dark’ on Malacca Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes A mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a “sea-borne invasion” of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes before destroying crops. “The sea-borne invasion …