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Political disunity will spell doom for Sabah
Political disunity will spell doom for Sabah Published on: Sunday, October 05, 2025 Published on: Sun, Oct 05, 2025 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: Dark Mode: Off I CRY over Sabah’s political fragmentation. Major reason for Sabah’s economic problems...

Political Intellection in Governance: Is Donald Trump Really Better than Bola Ahmed Tinubu?
Bola A. Akinterinwa The conduct and management of political governance has remained a very critical issue in international relations, especially as it relates to global peace and security. In the Middle East, the conflict has a recidivist...
Chinese FM to visit Italy, travel to Switzerland to hold meetings
BEIJING, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Italy and hold the 12th Joint Meeting of the China-Italy Government Committee and then travel to Switzerland and hold the 4th round of China-Switzerland Foreign Ministers'...

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to visit Italy, Switzerland this week
SHANGHAI: China’s foreign minister Wang Yi will visit Italy and Switzerland from Tuesday until October 12, China’s foreign ministry said on Sunday. The visit follows Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s trip to Beijing in late July, her first...

China providing Russia with intelligence on missile targets, Ukrainian official claims
China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official has said. Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Agency official Oleh Alexandrov told the state news...

President Xi Jinping calls for forging ahead with determination in advancing Chinese modernization
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on the nation to keep on working hard and forge ahead with determination in advancing Chinese modernization. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and...

Chinese FM Wang Yi to visit Italy, Switzerland from October 7-12
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Italy to hold the 12th Joint Meeting of the China-Italy Government Committee, and then travel to Switzerland for the 4th round of the China-Switzerland Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue, according to...
China’s K Visa For Bangladeshi Professionals: Eligibility, Application Process, Fees
China has taken a visionary step in drawing young talent with the introduction of the new K Visa. Officially launched on October 1, 2025, the scheme aims to support recent graduates and early-career researchers in education, research, and start-up...

China's J-35 and J-35A manufacturing hangars unveiled for first time
China's J-35 and J-35A stealth fighter jets at their manufacturing site. Photo: Screenshot from media reports The hangars of China's J-35 and J-35A stealth fighter jets were publicly unveiled for the first time on Sunday, according to China...

China shares intelligence to Russia on Ukraine targets, says Kyiv
China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying on Saturday. Oleh Alexandrov, an official with Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence...

China and Russia’s Information and Intellectual Thievery
Amidst all the concerns that the U.S. has regarding China and Russia, here is one sometimes doesn’t get much attention: Publishers in China and Russia, along with India and Indonesia, are the most likely to publish books to which they have no...

China's Yangtze River conservation provides new model of sustainable development
This photo taken on Aug 13, 2025 shows a navel orange orchard on the bank of the Yangtze River in Daba village of Fengjie county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality. [Photo/Xinhua] The transformation of China's Yangtze River, the world's...

Military Digest: Ladakh Scouts, the true defenders of Himalayas from 1947 to Kargil conflict
The recent unrest in Ladakh has resulted in the deaths of several people, including a veteran of the Ladakh Scouts, Havildar Tsewang Tharchin, who was killed in police firing. This has raised concerns within military circles. Retired Army officers...

International human trafficking racket busted by Mira-Bhayandar crime branch
The operation led to the rescue of a woman and the arrest of one of the key agents, while efforts are underway to trace other accused individuals involved in the transnational crime network The Mira-Bhayandar Vasai-Virar Police Commissionerate’s...

Chinese national dies while in immigration custody in Imperial County, ICE says
Sunday, October 5, 2025 5:14AM Staff at the Imperial Regional Detention facility in Calexico said the man experienced an apparent seizure and became unresponsive, according to ICE. CALEXICO, Calif. (KABC) -- A Chinese national has died in...

President Ali needs to prove that Sartre was right
MOHAMED Irfaan Ali, I predicted, will eclipse Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham as the definitive leader of Guyana. I believe that legacy is being shaped at the moment, and there will be an explosive transformation of Guyana under his leadership by...
China provides intelligence to Russia on Ukraine targets, Kyiv says
China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying Saturday. Oleh Alexandrov, an official with Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence...

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi to visit Italy and Switzerland this week amid deepening European ties
SHANGHAI, Oct 5 — China’s foreign minister Wang Yi will visit Italy and Switzerland from Tuesday until October 12, China’s foreign ministry said today. The visit follows Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s trip to Beijing in late July, her...

China Weakens Burma Resistance Amid Intensified Fighting
Inside former SAC base, Pasaung Photo by Antonio Graceffo In July of this year, at the battlefront in Pasaung, Karenni State, I followed a coalition of pro-democracy ethnic resistance forces as they struggled to capture the remaining half of the...

War Before War! How China’s “Below The Belt” Ploy Is Redrawing East Asia’s Maritime Order, Reshaping Indo-Pacific: OPED
The meeting between President Trump and the US military commanders indicated that the US would be more inward-looking. The proposed Trump-Xi meeting, scheduled around the APEC Summit in Korea later this month, aims for a new détente. Where does...