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America's expert on China says fungus smuggling case ‘worse than Covid’, urges US govt to ‘sever relations’
Mint
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June 8, 2025
Days after two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the United States, America's top expert on China warned that if the country is not careful, it could be “something worse” than COVID-19. He also suggested...
NYT: China, “the enemy,” targets Russian tech, territory, and scientists, leaked FSB file shows
Euromaidan Press
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June 8, 2025
A secret Russian intelligence document obtained by The New York Times shows the FSB’s growing alarm over Chinese espionage, despite Moscow’s repeated public claims of an unbreakable friendship with Beijing. China officially claims neutrality in...
Rani Mukerji shares why Aditya Chopra’s ‘The DDLJ Musical’ still feels fresh
The Siasat Daily
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June 8, 2025
Mumbai: Actress Rani Mukerji opened up about why ‘Come Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical’, directed by her husband Aditya Chopra, continues to resonate with audiences even after three decades. Mukerji recently attended the premiere of ‘Come Fall in...
China in Flux: Leadership Uncertainty and Rising Social Tensions
JAPAN Forward
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June 8, 2025
The direction China takes has a significant impact both globally and regionally. If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues down its current path, is a local debt implosion and a collapse of the banking system inevitable? Could the CCP really...
India News | Uttarakhand Government Announces New Initiatives to Promote Literature and Culture
Latestly
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June 8, 2025
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 8 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the state government is committed to the preservation and promotion of literature and culture. He said the government has initiated steps to...
Xi's Fujian years and China's support for private sector, opening up
CGTN
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Before Xi Jinping became China's top leader, he worked over 17 years in east China's Fujian Province, a place he called his "second hometown." During his time there, Xi championed policies that supported private sector growth and deepened economic...
Students create art to highlight marine protection
CGTN
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Students create ocean-themed art under the guidance of a teacher at a primary school in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province on June 6, 2025. /IC Students create ocean-themed art under the guidance of a teacher at a primary school in Qinhuangdao, Hebei...
I Loved a Piece of Lego Art That Cost $280,000. so I Forged It.
Savannah Herald - Georgia
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June 8, 2025
If it weren’t for the gallery assistant’s haughty, dismissive tone, I probably would never have stolen the painting. To be clear, I’m not normally an art thief. My day jobs are as a civil rights lawyer and a law professor. Visual art is rarely my...
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Chinese media rebate corruption probe widens across agencies
Campaign Asia-Pacific
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June 7, 2025
The Chinese government’s investigation into media rebate corruption which began with GroupM in October 2023 has now expanded to involve multiple agencies. Campaign Asia-Pacific has learned from reliable sources that Shanghai police have questioned...
'Worse Than Covid': Expert's Dire Warning Over Toxic Fungus Feared Smuggled Into US From China
News18
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June 8, 2025
Last Updated:June 08, 2025, 14:47 IST Agricultural experts, however, doubted the claims that the crop fungus is a threat as it is already widespread in the US and poses little food safety risk Samples of a pathogen identified by the US Department...
India Tour of England 2025: A tightrope walk awaits Shubman Gill
Mint
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June 8, 2025
If the importance of the series is not enough of a challenge, Gill will be leading a team not so much in transition as it is in radical overhaul. This is the first Test series post the retirements of three of India’s biggest names in Test cricket...
Japan telecom giant NTT Docomo to end own emoji after 26 yrs
Kyodo News+
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Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo Inc. will retire its set of original emoji whose release 26 years ago helped shape the visual language of today's digital communications. The carrier's Android smartphones and feature phones marketed from June...
India News | Fire at High-rise in Thane; No Casualty
Latestly
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June 8, 2025
Thane, Jun 8 (PTI) A fire broke out at a 14-storey residential building in Mumbra area of Maharashtra's Thane district in the early hours of Sunday, civic officials said. There was no report of any casualty, they said. Also Read | Arasur Road...
Art meets activism: Art Adda 2025 reimagines the soul of the city
Sunday Guardian Live
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June 7, 2025
Art Adda 2025 transforms Delhi’s urban heart with powerful storytelling, dance, film, and art to spotlight biodiversity, climate crisis, and civic imagination. In an age of information overload and digital dissonance, it is rare to find an event...
Princess Kako meets people of Japanese descent in Brazil nursing home
Kyodo News+
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Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, visited a nursing home near Sao Paulo on Saturday to interact with locals of Japanese descent, as part of her official visit to Brazil to commemorate this year's 130th anniversary of diplomatic...
A Nazi skinhead, a Japanese model and a film by Scots director that breaks all rules
The Herald (Scotland)
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June 8, 2025
Not so, as it turns out. It’s only now, a decade on, that Slow West’s follow-up is preparing to make its theatrical bow after a well-received premiere at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival where it was the opening film. A blend of samurai flick,...
Re: El-Tufiakwa - Muyiwa Adekeye And The Art Of Manufacturing Consent*, By Luke Godwin Waziri
Sahara Reporters
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Dear Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, Thank you for the amusement provided by your epistle, “Chidi Odinkalu and the art of peddling lies.” If your intention was to create a case study in defensive obfuscation and historical gymnastics, then consider it a...
Adnan Sami, December Avenue, Gloc-9 To Headline Musical Extravaganza In Doha
MENAFN
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June 8, 2025
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Malek Sellini | The Peninsula Doha, Qatar: Iconic artists from the Philippines and India are set to take center stage for the inaugural World Music Festival '25 this July. The festival will be held at Aspire Ladies Hall,...
Chinese firm’s lead mine plan weighs heavily on Myanmar tribe
Hong Kong Free Press
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June 8, 2025
Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture’s giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of their ancestral homeland for lead ore. Protesters from the Pradawng...
Chinese students reconsidering the US as Republicans threaten their visas
The Straits Times
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June 8, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – Over lunch at the University of Texas at Austin, a professor from China and two Chinese students spoke dispiritedly this past week of the directive issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese...