The newly launched English language version of Al-Jazeera’s Web site was hit by a "bombardment of data packets." Known as a "denial-of-service attack," the bombardment has rendered the site intermittently unavailable. American hackers are suspected because only the site's...
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China’s 19th National Party Congress has placed President Xi Jinping on a pedestal equal to that of Mao Zedong, founder of communist China. Xi promises to lead the modern socialist nation that is “prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious” and offer a new model and choice of...
China’s helmsman: Xi Jinping, given new powers to lead the Communist Party of China, addresses the 19th Party Congress; Xi visits PLA ship “built to fight”
STOCKHOLM: Xi pulled it off. His crowning could not have been grander. “Xi Jinping Thought...
Migrant workers in South China are increasingly more assertive. A once relatively compliant workforce is staging more and bigger strikes prompting authorities to escalate suppression. Anita Chan, author and research professor, analyzes the internal and external forces behind the unrest. Labor...
Labor pains: Unwilling to tolerate harsh conditions, Chinese laborers begin to protest; workers at a shoe factory in Yue Yuen, Guangdong Province (top); Chinese factory workers take a break
SYDNEY: It’s been chiseled into the minds of Chinese...
The world is in a race to deliver fifth-generation networks, expected to offer new applications in robotics, space, defense, telecommunications, medicine and more while delivering high performance with far greater multi-gigabit capacity, speed and transmission of massive volumes of data. China...
Digital cutting edge: Huawei’s CEO Ren Zhengfei offered to share 5G technology that could spur innovations like remote surgery, right, performed on an animal in China
WASHINGTON: Panic is rising in the United States over China’s lead in the...
India failed to anticipate China’s aggression along the shared border and now must respond to a deadly clash that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and, by some reports, twice as many Chinese – along with China’s claim to Galwan Valley. Both sides have engaged in road-building and moved troops in the...
Conflict in the Middle East is driving millions of people from their homes: Estimates from the UN Refugee Agency suggest that more than 4 million Syrians are refugees, 50,000 more have sought asylum and at least 7 million more are internally displaced. In Iraq, near 2 million are displaced....
Desperate move: Conflict, repression and poverty displace millions, including refugees from strife-torn Syria who pour into Jordan, top; Africans flee by crossing the Mediterranean
NEW YORK: A complex and troubling humanitarian crisis challenges the...
As the world’s leading military powers invent new weapons systems, other nations develop countermeasures. “China has no illusions about its military inferiority via-à-vis the United States and knows that the status is likely to endure for at least two decades,” explains security analyst Loro Horta...
Stealthy defense: Chinese shore-to-ship DF-21A missile could hit US aircraft carriers, top; Chinese designed stealth fighter J20 unveiled
BEIJING: Over a decade ago the Federation of American Scientists described the Chinese missile program as a...
Nations will watch closely to see if Britain can distance itself from the pain of the Greek debt crisis. Great Britain is one of 27 members of the European Union, but not part of the 17-member eurozone. The British capital of London is also a global center of financial firms, which greased the way...
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