Nepal, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Oman have secured their places in the men's cricket competition at the 2026 Asian Games, scheduled to be held in Japan in September and October.
Jimmy Lai, a British citizen who has been in detention since 2020, is a strong critic of the Chinese Communist Party. He is regarded as one of the key faces of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
In December 2025, the Hong Kong High Court found Lai guilty on all three counts of violating the national security law.
Indian squash team made history on Sunday, securing the first-ever Squash World Cup title, beating the top-seeds Hong Kong in the final in Chennai.
Hong Kong has ordered citywide scaffolding removal for urgent safety checks after the Wang Fuk Court fire, which killed 159 people. Police have made arrests and expanded search operations.
If India can achieve the same rate of growth as compared with China by following a democratic path with all its potholes, China has a problem when there is a democratic yearning among its own people. This is precisely the reason why Beijing has enforced the draconian national security law in Hong Kong which jettisons the one country, two systems as envisaged in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.
The latest arrests, which take the total of those arrested under the new law to 15, were made on suspicion of organising and inciting secession.
The arrests of the suspects, aged 16 to 21, on Wednesday marked the first such crackdown on anti-government activists not at the scene of street protests since the legislation came into effect on June 30
Later, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi slammed the US for “reckless provocation of confrontation” after both sides ordered tit-for-tat closures of each other’s consulates, but called for “rational communication” between the two powers.
New Zealand's ties with China have frayed recently after the pacific nation backed Taiwan's participation at the World Health Organization (WHO).
