BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday in the first of several corruption cases against her.
Suu Kyi, who was ousted by an army takeover last year, had denied the allegation that she had accepted gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars given her as a bribe by a top political colleague.
BEIJING, April 26 (APP): Pakistan Ambassador to China, Moin ul Haque Tuesday expressed shock and mourned loss of precious lives including Chinese citizens in a blast in Karachi University.
The entire nation is in shock and mourns the loss of these precious lives including our Chinese friends, he said in a message.
Ambassador Haque said that this cowardly act was a direct attack on the Pakistan-China friendship and ongoing cooperation.
BEIJING, April 26. /TASS/: The Chinese authorities are not seeking World War III and are in favor of resolving the conflict in Ukraine through diplomacy, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday.
"No one wants to see World War III, it is necessary to support the process of promoting peace talks [between Russia and Ukraine]," he said at a briefing, responding to a Western journalist's question about how the Chinese foreign ministry assesses Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent words about the threat of World War III.
NUR-SULTAN, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and visiting Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe voiced common readiness on Monday to step up bilateral cooperation.
BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank will promote the steady and healthy development of the financial market and foster a sound monetary and financial environment.
The People's Bank of China made the remarks Tuesday in response to recent financial market fluctuations which are mainly driven by investor expectations and sentiment.
China's financial system has been coordinating COVID-19 control with economic and social development, smoothening logistics as well as industrial and supply chains, the bank said.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to accelerate the development of nuclear weapons and threatened to use them if provoked in a speech he delivered at a military parade that featured powerful missiles capable of targeting the country’s rivals, state media reported Tuesday.
BEIJING (AP) — Workers put up fencing and police restricted who could leave a locked-down area in Beijing on Tuesday as authorities in the Chinese capital stepped up efforts to prevent a major COVID-19 outbreak like the one that has all but shut down the city of Shanghai.
People lined up for throat swabs across much of Beijing as mass testing was expanded to 11 of the city’s 16 districts.
TASHKENT, April 25. /TASS/: Moscow is interested in increasing settlements in national currencies with BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) and EAEU (Eurasian Economic Union) nations, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov told a forum on Monday.
Last year, Russia’s trade with EAEU, BRICS and SCO members grew by up to 38%, he said, adding that in total those integrations account for half of the global economy.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysian King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on Monday received the credentials of 19 foreign envoys to Malaysia, at Istana Negara (National Palace) here.
Also present at the ceremony was the Queen Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah.
The 19 foreign envoys are Joana Veneranda Amaral from Timor-Leste; Takahashi Katsuhiko (Japan); Saad Maandi (Algeria); Ricardo Estanislao Morote Canales (Peru); Dabare Liyanage Sumangala Dias (Sri Lanka) and Constance Chemwayi (Zimbabwe).
SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) - About 300 people held a candlelight vigil at a Singapore park on Monday to protest against the planned hanging of a Malaysian convicted of drug smuggling whom activists say should be spared because he has an intellectual disability.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, has been on death row for more than a decade for trafficking 43 grams (1.5 oz) of heroin into Singapore. He lost his final appeal against the execution last month.
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