Wang Yi will visit the Solomon Islands this week followed by other Pacific nations. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1124 EAT on Tuesday 24th May 2022. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to the Pacific this week to visit several countries, including the Solomon Islands, as Beijing seeks to solidify its presence there….
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Chinese national arrested for blocking minister from inspecting factory.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0838 EAT on Friday 29 April 2022. An unidentified Chinese national was on Wednesday arrested for blocking the Gender, Labour and Social Development minister, Betty Among from inspecting the working conditions of employees at the Namanve based Sunbelt Industries Ltd. The minister was conducting a routine inspection of the…
US hits Chinese officials with travel beens over ‘repressive acts’.
State Department accuses targeted Chinese officials of involvement in crackdown on religious minorities, among others. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1208 EAT on Tuesday 22/03/2022. United States President Joe Biden’s administration is imposing travel bans on Chinese officials whom it accuses of repressing Uiguer Muslims as well as other ethnic and religious minorities. The US…
China plane crash; ‘Grim’ search as rescue teams comb hillside.
Firefighters and paramilitary police deployed to steeply-forested slopes of China’s first air crash in 10 years. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1028 EAT on Tuesday 22/03/2022. Rescuers in China are scouring heavily forested slopes in southern China where a China Eastern Airlines crashed and exploded in flames, as the airline expressed “deep condolences” for…
Covid-19; China reports first deaths since 2021.
Two deaths were recorded in the northeastern province of Jilin, the epicentre of an Omicron-fuelled wave of cases that has left millions facing stay-home orders. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1122 EAT on Saturday 19/03/2022. China has announced its first confirmed COVID-19 deaths in more than a year, amid an Omicron-fulled surge of cases…
There is Riots and snubs in Pacific Islands which is growing wariness of China.
Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1035 EAT on Thursday 10/03/2022. The president of Kiribati, prime ministers of Fiji, Tonga and Niue, and the foreign ministers of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia and Solomon Islands appeared in windows on a screen, their video summit meant to herald a new promise in China’s…
Putin Orders Russian Troops To Ukraine After Recognising Breakaway Regions.
Updated at 0746 EATon February 22nd 2022. MOSCOW, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after recognising them as independent on Monday, accelerating a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war. An HICGI witness saw tanks and other military hardware moving through the separatist-controlled…
Do we know the real death toll of covid?
Updated on Monday 21/02/2022 at 1627 EAT. There has long been a debate over how COVID-19-related deaths are recorded. The Johns Hopkins University in the United States, which is widely accepted as a reputable source, puts the global death toll at more than 5.8 million people. Some COVID-deniers insist that this number is exaggerated but they…
US-born Chinese Olympic figure skater slated in China.
Published on Tuesday 8th February 2022 at 1620 EAT. Her debut on Sunday saw her fail to land jumps, pushing Team China out of the medals. A second performance on Monday, where she fell twice, earned more criticism. Her performance was called shameful and embarrassing by some, with personal attacks made on her background and…
Taiwan defies China Aggression
HICGI News Agency Updated at 1256 EAT on Sunday 10th October 2021 TAIPEI- Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will continue to boost its defences ‘to ensure that nobody can force’ the territory to ‘accept the path China has laid out for us’. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says her government will not bow down to pressure from…
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