カテゴリー: Foreign policy
Last British governor of region urges Foreign Office to object to Chinese remarksChris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, has warned that China’s threat to overrule the Hong Kong judiciary represents a dramatic threat to the autonomy of th…
Simon Cheng, a former UK consular employee, has only been offered a two-year visaQuestions have been raised about Britain’s treatment of a former UK consular worker from Hong Kong, who said he was asked to resign after being detained and allegedly tort…
Simon Cheng, who worked at consulate, alleges repeated mental and physical abuseA former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong has alleged he was tortured while being detained in China during a 15-day ordeal in which he said he was accused of …
Insurgent group visits Moscow days after after Donald Trump declares US negotiations with Afghan group ‘dead’A Taliban delegation has held talks with Russian officials in Moscow after US negotiations with the Afghan insurgents collapsed, the Russian f…
Devices may be examined at crossings to mainland China, Foreign Office saysHong Kong latest: protesters join hands in 30-mile human chainBritish travellers heading to Hong Kong have been told their electronic devices could be checked at the border with…
Allegation directed at employee of consulate in Hong Kong is often used by Bejing authorities to smear criticsChinese state media has accused a worker at the British consulate in Hong Kong who is detained in mainland China of visiting prostitutes – an …
British government must put pressure on Narendra Modi to ease the plight of women whose husbands have been disappeared in the Indian state, writes Margaret OwenIndia’s breach of article 370 of its constitution, which gave special status and autonomy to…
Citizens of gas-rich, isolated state subject to food shortages and human rights abusesInvestors and governments should stop cosying up to gas-rich Turkmenistan, according to a new report that describes the central Asian hermit state as “a country teete…