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JAKARTA: Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung has expressed his intention to establish a "cat island" in Thousands Islands regency in an attempt to address the city's growing stray cat population, while also boosting tourism, drawing inspiration from similar islands in Japan that have attracted both local and international visitors.
Chinese company's ultimatum fuels backlash amid nation's population crisis.
Doctors seeing more younger American men seeking sterilisation after the landmark Roe versus Wade decision was overturned by the US Supreme Court.
Since men refuse to have vasectomies, the country's preferred family planning method is for the woman to have her tubes tied.
The first Thai to become part of Hershey’s SHE Cares campaign says it costs her nearly 1 million baht (RM127,000) a month to look after some 1,900 strays.
The actions of the Chinese government in Xinjiang, including the detention and persecution of Uygurs and other ethnic Muslim groups, “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”, said a long-awaited United Nations report on conditions in the region.
THE United States will add eight Chinese companies, including the world’s largest commercial drone manufacturer DJI Technology Co Ltd, to an investment blacklist this week, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
An independent panel set up in Britain to examine China’s crackdown against Uygurs and other ethnic minority groups ruled on Thursday that the Chinese government’s actions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region constituted genocide.
WASHINGTON (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The US will not send officials to the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing next year in the light of China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang and elsewhere, the White House said on Monday (Dec 6).
BEIJING/OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said China's sanctions against two American religious-rights officials and one Canadian lawmaker were unacceptable and vowed to continue to defend human rights.
BEIJING (Reuters) - At least three Chinese celebrities on Saturday dropped German fashion house Hugo Boss, the latest foreign brand caught in a concerted boycott by Chinese consumers over Western accusations of forced labour in Xinjiang.
BEIJING (Reuters): Burberry has lost a Chinese brand ambassador and its hallmark tartan design was scrubbed from a popular video game, becoming the first luxury brand assailed by the Chinese backlash to Western accusations of abuses in Xinjiang.
BEIJING (Reuters): China sanctioned organisations and individuals in the United Kingdom on Friday (March 26) over what it called "lies and disinformation" about Xinjiang, days after Britain imposed sanctions for human rights abuses in the western Chinese region.
Anger with Nike Inc erupted on Chinese social media late on Wednesday after China's netizens spotted a statement from the sporting goods giant saying it was "concerned" about reports of forced labour in Xinjiang and that it does not use cotton from the region.
At least one Chinese online retailer appeared to drop H&M's products amid social media attacks on the Swedish company for saying it was "deeply concerned" about reports of forced labour in the farwestern region of Xinjiang.
BRUSSELS (Reuters): The European Union agreed on Wednesday (March 17) to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tianamen Square crackdown.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday hit back at a U.N. women's rights panel that said some U.S. states limited access to abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic, rejecting its interference and the notion of "an assumed right to abortion".
BEIJING, July 20 (AFP): China warned on Monday that Britain was heading down "a wrong path" as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was expected to announce the suspension of an extradition treaty with Hong Kong, raising tensions between the countries.
