Politics

  Bloomberg A Chinese-Canadian tycoon who was seized at a Hong Kong hotel five years ago and has lost much of his sprawling business empire to the Chinese government is about to go on trial, the Wall Street Journal reported. Prosecutors in Shanghai plan to charge Xiao Jianhua with illegal collection of public deposits, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar ...

Bloomberg Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged global leaders to revive the unity they showed during the pandemic and coordinate efforts to deter Vladimir Putin. “Weapons and sanctions are also a vaccine against Covid-22, which was brought by Russia,” Zelenskiy told a TIME100 Gala event via video-link. Fighting continued in the east of Ukraine, where Russian forces are pushing to capture ...

  Bloomberg A military jet crashed in central China, killing one local resident and injuring two, according to the state broadcaster. The pilot ejected, but the crash caused an explosion near the airport of Laohekou, in Xiangyang city in China’s central Hubei province, the Xinhua news agency reported. Some houses near the crash site were severely damaged and set on ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong is preparing to cocoon some 1,000 people involved in the city’s July 1 handover anniversary, fueling speculation that Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the celebrations. Security staff, including police officers protecting a “very, very important person,” will enter the closed-loop system in readiness for hosting an unspecified Chinese state leader, the South China Morning Post ...

  Bloomberg China blasted Taiwanese opposition leader Eric Chu after he appeared to play down a key agreement between the two sides, in a sign of new frictions between Beijing and its traditional negotiating partner in Taipei. Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) spokesman Ma Xiaoguang criticised Chu for remarks in the US in which he called the agreement that both sides ...

Bloomberg Talks between Russia and Turkey brought no signs of progress on a deal to unblock shipments of Ukrainian grain that have contributed to warnings of global food-supply crisis. Kyiv, which wasn’t invited to participate in the talks in Ankara, is skeptical of the Kremlin’s intentions and is seeking strong security guarantees that would allow it to export the key ...

  Bloomberg One of Australia’s largest Chinese-language media platforms came under cyberattack early in the hours of June 4, potentially putting users’ information at risk, The Australian newspaper reported. Users of the news organisation Media Today received authentication texts to their mobile phones after more than 20 million attempts were made to reset user passwords, the paper reported, citing a ...

  Bloomberg Secretary of State Antony Blinken slammed Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and El Salvador for repressing journalists as the US kicked off a summit of leaders from Latin America in Los Angeles, with tensions between Washington and the region’s authoritarian nations hanging over the event. “In Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, the simple act of carrying out investigative journalism is a ...

Bloomberg The UK has displayed “bad faith” in how it has approached the part of the Brexit treaty dealing with Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said. “It is perfectly reasonable to look for ways to improve the operation of the Protocol — but unfortunately what we have seen are bad-faith efforts to undermine a treaty freely entered into,” ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron’s party and its allies could lose their outright majority in this month’s legislative elections as support for a rival left-wing grouping grows, according to fresh polls published days ahead of the first round of voting. A poll by Ifop-Fiducial for LCI TV released based on an online survey of 1,840 adults on June 3-6 projects that ...