Microsoft and Amazon to invest $5.6 billion into France as Macron courts tech giants
Microsoft and Amazon are ploughing billions of dollars into France.
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Beijing's transnational repression reaches overseas Chinese students: report
NEW YORK -- When Chinese President Xi Jinping met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris last week, members of France-based Chinese student group Le Front de la Liberte received phone calls from their parents back home, asking about their upcoming activities and urging them not to do anything that could embarrass Xi.
If ICC orders Duterte’s arrest over his deadly drugs war, will Philippines recognise it?
Two complaints have been filed against Duterte at the ICC: one submitted by a former policeman accusing him of ordering the deaths of opponents and criminals while he was mayor of Davao city, with the other lodged by relatives of those killed in his “war on drugs” while he was president from 2016 to 2022.
Asia-Pacific free trade pacts have been a big success for the U.S.
Bilahari Kausikan is former permanent secretary and ambassador-at-large in the Singaporean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Steven Okun is chief executive of ESG and sustainability consultancy APAC Advisors and a senior adviser with geostrategic consultancy McLarty Associates. He previously served as chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.
Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.
Minutes after it became clear that Javier Milei had been elected president of South America’s second-largest nation in November, Elon Musk posted on X: “Prosperity is ahead for Argentina.”
India Lok Sabha election 2024 Phase 4: Who votes and what’s at stake?
A total of 96 constituencies across 10 states and union territories will vote on May 13 in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
South China Sea: Philippines sends ships to disputed atoll where Beijing building ‘artificial island’
The Philippines said on Saturday it had deployed ships to a disputed area in the South China Sea, where it accused Beijing of building “an artificial island” in an escalating maritime row.