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Oil Slides on Worries About Lockdowns in China, Release of Reserves

Oil prices slid more than $2 a barrel on Monday, following a second straight weekly decline after world consumers announced plans to release a record volume of crude and oil products from strategic stocks and as China lockdowns continued. Brent crude was down $2.32, or 2.3%, at $100.46 a barrel…

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China Closes Guangzhou to Most Arrivals as Outbreak Spreads

The manufacturing hub of Guangzhou closed itself to most arrivals Monday as China battles a major COVID-19 surge in its big eastern cities. Shanghai has taken the brunt of the surge, with another 26,087 cases announced on Monday, only 914 of which showed symptoms. The city of 26 million is…

Asharq Al-Awsat

China closes Guangzhou to most arrivals as outbreak spreads

The manufacturing hub of Guangzhou has closed itself to most arrivals as China battles a COVID-19 outbreak in its big eastern cities

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‘It feels like the end of the world’: Taiwan civilians practise for war as Ukraine revives China fears

Community groups use US army training videos to rehearse for disaster, yet the government is reluctant to support a civilian defence force

The Guardian - AU

China’s prices surge past forecasts amid lockdowns, Ukraine war

Soaring factory inflation in world’s second-largest economy could spell more price rises worldwide.

Al Jazeera

The Chinese companies trying to buy strategic islands

Small businesses from China have scoured the globe for important strips of land. Are they trying to make money or are they a front for Beijing?

Financial Times

New Caledonia leader calls for France to grant independence vote to counter China’s ‘omnipresence’ in Pacific

Pro-independence parties boycotted last year’s referendum on a split from France, arguing Covid made campaigning too difficult

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China collaborating in space

China has launched the first stages of its space station. International projects selected to come aboard may be ready to fly from late 2022.

360info

Can space stay peaceful during tension on Earth?

If spacefaring nations can set aside geopolitics, the hope and cooperation that characterised the dawn of the space age will come to the fore once again.

360info

Central Asia, Russia new hubs for Tamil Nadu medical students

CHENNAI: The war and Covid-19 has kept Ukraine and China off-limits for foreign students, while making Russia and other central Asian countries like Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan as the likely destinations for medical aspirants from Tamil Nadu for 2022-23. Poland and Baltic countries like Lithuania and Latvia could also generate interest,…

The Times of India

China unhappy with US virus ‘accusation’ as COVID spreads

China defended its measures to curb the virus outbreak and expressed displeasure with the U.S. over what it calls a “groundless accusation” of Chinese pandemic policies, even as cases in Shanghai continued to spread despite an extensive lockdown.

Tribune News Service

Actor Mew's big ambition

Global fans of Thai actor Suppasit "Mew" Jongcheveevat were thrilled when he announced he will be the producer of TV series The Ocean Eyes, which tells the story of a group of marine veterinarians. With an intriguing plot and a massive budget, The Ocean Eyes is a collaborative production between…

Bangkok Post

Challenges for Asean

Over two years after the coronavirus emerged, countries across Asia are slowly beginning to recover. In Southeast Asia, economic growth is projected to pick up to 5.1% this year, from 3.2% in 2021. With 400 million people, or 59% of the population, fully vaccinated, many economies are well on the…

Bangkok Post

China is just one of the headaches facing Australia’s next PM

Australia is heading to a national vote on May 21 with the center-right Liberal National coalition government campaigning for a fourth term in office after grappling with a pandemic and a slew of climate change-related disasters.

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India’s role in a disordered world

New Delhi can play an important role in shaping a new, more democratic, world order

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Why the Ukraine-Russia war is dividing the Australian Chinese community

Chinese Australians say polarised views on the invasion of Ukraine are leading to unpleasant conversations between husbands and wives, parents and children, and colleagues at work.

Evening Standard

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls federal election on May 21

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a federal election next month.

The Independent UK

China makes semi-secret delivery of missiles to Serbia

Russian ally Serbia has taken delivery of a sophisticated Chinese anti-aircraft system in a semi-secret operation this weekend, amid Western concerns that an arms buildup in the Balkans at the time of the war in Ukraine could threaten the fragile peace in the region

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The Independent UK

China makes semi-secret delivery of missiles to Serbia

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Shanghai discharges thousands of patients, boosts supplies

Shanghai has discharged over 11,000 recovered COVID-19 patients and health authorities emphasize that they must be allowed to return home despite the lockdown that has severely restricted movement in China’s largest city

Reuters

Shanghai residents question human cost of China's COVID quarantines

Lu, 99, was a long-time resident at Shanghai's Donghai Elderly Care hospital, her loved ones secure that she was getting round-the-clock care at the city's largest such centre.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Says US ‘Imposing New Conditions’ in Nuclear Talks

Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that Washington is "imposing new conditions" in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement. "On the issue of lifting sanctions, they (the Americans) are interested in proposing and imposing new conditions outside the negotiations," state news agency IRNA quoted Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as saying. "In…

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Tesla Model Y Turned Into Desert-Ready Off-Roader In China

We've seen custom Model Ys aplenty going off-road in the US, but one of the most capable looking was actually built and modified in China.

Reuters

Shanghai seeks to reassure residents over COVID-hit supplies

Shanghai reported nearly 25,000 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections on Sunday and sought to assure locked-down residents of China's most populous city that supply bottlenecks affecting availability of food and other items would ease.

Reuters

China labels U.S. concerns over COVID regulations 'groundless accusations'

China's foreign ministry expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with the United States late on Saturday after it raised concerns over China's coronavirus control measures.

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