The Myanmar junta announced that it would extend its 20-day ceasefire until April 30 to help resume the country’s earthquake, reported MRTV state diffuser.A 7.7 devastating earthquake struck near Mandalay on March 28, causing more than 3,700 deaths and injured more than 5,000 people. In response to the disaster, the junta announced a temporary cease-fire to facilitate help efforts. The government of national civil unity in exile, or Nug, and several ethnic armed groups have declared similar breaks in hostilities.However, such ceases have offered little civilians to military operations, including air strikes, have continued in certain regions, according to sources.Rebel…
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TAIPIEI, Taiwan – The Philippines have raised a policy of several decades which narrowly restricts the official engagement with Taiwan in a decision that an expert indicates that the recalibration of its Chinese policy had tensions simmer.Under the new policy, presented on April 15, representatives of the Philippine Government – with the exception of the President, Vice -President, Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of Defense – can now visit Taiwan for economic, commercial or investment activities, provided they travel on regular passports and do not use their official titles.Previously, Filipino officials were prohibited from visiting Taiwan or meeting Taiwanese…
Taipei, Taiwan – American president Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the prices recently imposed on Chinese products “will drop considerably”, but will not be zero, in the latest zigzag for Washington’s position on world trade.The United States and China have a trade battle in Tit-For-Tat, which threatens to kill the world economy. The United States has imposed 145% prices on Chinese imports, which prompted China to retaliate with prices reaching 125% on American products. The United States has also imposed new prices on most other countries. Trump told a press conference at the White House that “145% is very…
Washington – Today, the president and chief executive officer of Radio Free Asia (RFA), Bay Fang decision of the American district court for the District of Columbia to grant a preliminary injunction, forcing the American agency to the world media to pay funds appropriate by the Congress to the RFA. After the cessation of its subsidy by the USAGM, more than three -quarters of the US STR staff were contained and almost all the contracts ended with independent journalists abroad. Fang published the following declaration:“We welcome the decision that USAGM must continue to finance the FRG, such as the Congress.…
Pork farmers are preparing for costs to skyrocket after China slapped a 135% price on American soybell imports, a key ingredient in animal feed, even if Beijing turns to producers like Brazil to meet its legume demand in the middle of a greater thrust. Soybeans – which feeds the production of the pig industry of $ 435 million in China – remains the main agricultural exports in America, selling more than 27 million metric tonnes or more than half of $ 24.6 billion in total American agricultural products imported in 2024. The steep price increases on agricultural products such as…
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The German chemical giant Basf said on Tuesday that he had given in the actions of his joint ventures in the Xinjiang region in China, a decision greeted by the Uighur activists concerned by the use of forced labor there.Since the end of 2023, BASF has announced its intention to sell its actions in the manufacture of chemicals of Basf Markor and Markor Meiou Chemical in the Korla region of Xinjiang. The German media had alleged that his local partner was involved in human rights violations in the Xinjiang.Basf said in a statement on Tuesday that the buyer was Verde…
Politicususa is without advertising and capable of providing content due to the support of our readers. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber.One of the ways in which Trump and his party have tried to delegitimize and, in the case of NPR and PBS, finance the media which, according to them, are biased against them is to file complaints with the Federal Electoral Commission. Trump filed a FEC complaint accusing the Washington Post of contributions in kind to Kamala Harris, and the Conservatives filed a complaint against NPR who affirmed that the NPR was controlled by the Democratic Party…
Bangkok – Chinese investments in Thailand face a meticulous examination when the host country has made the first arrest of a Chinese company official who allegedly responsible for the collapse of a building that killed more than 100 workers after an earthquake at the end of March. The 30 -storey government audit building was the only major structure to collapse in Thailand due to the magnification tremor of 7.7 with the Myanmar epicenter at 1,000 kilometers (621 miles). He raised questions about his design, his construction controls, the materials used and the allegations of corruption and official corruption. Up to…
Read the RFA cover of this subject in Burma.The Myanmar junta entered a city in the north near the Chinese border on Tuesday abandoned by a rebellious army after months of occupation, Radio free Asia residents told Radio.The army of the National Alliance of Myanmar, or MNDAA, is one of the many insurgent groups fighting the junta which seized power in a coup in 2021 for autonomy and democracy. He controls parts of northern Shan and until recently, the city of Lashio for a long time. Frequent conflicts and air strikes have forced a large part of the population to…