Following Tuesday’s confirmation that two Irish dual-citizens have tested positive for coronavirus in Japan, it has since emerged that two other Irish citizens on board another recently quarantined cruise ship returned home to Ireland without being screened on entry.
China has expelled three Beijing-based Wall Street Journal staff from the country after the paper printed an op-ed headline which authorities there deemed “racist”.
The uncovering of an espionage plot at the heart of a Harvard advanced research lab, might be just the “tip of an iceberg” says retired American air force General, Steve Kwast. In a long ranging discussion on the technological arms race betwen the USA and China, covering issues from 5G to the emerging strategic domain […]
In the wake of reports of the rapid spread of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is in “aggressive containment mode”, and fear the illness isn’t going away any time soon. “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think […]
New diagnostic standards implemented in the province of Hubei means that yesterday’s figure of over 15,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24 hour period was almost nine times higher than the 1,638 cases reported the day before.
A Chinese woman living in Kerry is reportedly in isolation at Kerry University Hospital after she displayed similar symptoms to that associated with the deadly Coronavirus.
The consequences of the one-child policy continue to live with China. The latest demographic news from the world’s largest country is that its birthrate has dropped to its lowest level since the Communist Party took power in 1949. According to Al-Jazeera, the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics has recently released data for 2019 […]
The death toll for the CORONAVIRUS is rising and China has now cancelled flights. WATCH to see what you need to know #gript
A man is being treated in an isolation ward in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital for symptoms consistent with coronavirus, which has so far caused 18 deaths in China. The BBC reports that he travelled to Northern Ireland from the city of Wuhan where the infection outbreak began. It is understood that the patient arrived from Wuhan […]
Fleeing from one repressive country to another in search of a better life might seem like a living hell to most of us, but the story of Bon-Hwa*, a North Korean refugee in communist China, is sure to bring hope to many.
For those interested in the horrific, on-the-ground realities of a totalitarian government engaging in population control and social engineering on a massive scale, the documentary One Child Nation on Amazon Prime Video is required viewing. Both of the documentary’s directors (Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang) were born under the one-child-policy in the 1980s. After emigrating to the […]
Thanks to a much less rigid regime compared to China’s, Vietnam never managed to completely destroy its demographic future, despite falling for the population control trap.