As Russia seeks to tighten ties with China amid Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine, the number of Burobin’s students has tripled over the past year.”Sunday is the busiest,” 20-year-old Burobin, who makes a good living with his online lessons, told AFP.”I have 16 hours of classes virtually without a break.”The boom in demand for Chinese lessons in Russia illustrates the country’s pivot towards Asia as tensions build between Moscow and the West.Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Russia beginning Monday aims to deepen what the two countries have called a “no-limits” relationship, which is increasingly important for Russia as…
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The visit came after Putin traveled to Crimea on Saturday in an unannounced visit to mark the ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine, and just two days after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader.Mariupol, which fell to Russia in May after one of the war’s longest and bloodiest battles, was Russia’s first major victory after it failed to seize Kyiv and focused instead on southeastern Ukraine.Putin flew by helicopter to Mariupol, Russian new agencies reported citing the Kremlin. It is the closest to the front lines Putin has been…
By Reuters  March 19, 2023 | 11:46 am GMT+7 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev visit the state museum-preserve “Tauric Chersonese” in Sevastopol, Crimea, March 18, 2023. Photo handout via Reuters Russia’s President Vladimir Putin made a working trip to Mariupol, a Ukrainian city in the Donetsk region which has been occupied by Moscow forces since May of last year, Russian media reported on Sunday. Putin flew to Mariupol by helicopter, the TASS agency reported citing the Kremlin. Driving a car, Putin traveled around several districts of the city, making stops and talking to residents. .…
Only in New YorkNew York’s 311 non-emergency hotline is there to log complaints about noise or rats, but it also has to field some pretty bizarre requests like “Can you check if my boyfriend is married?”, and “Please transfer me to a UFO – ologist .”One caller asked to be talked through “the steps for boiling a live chicken” while another wondered if they could claim their dog on their taxes.One desperate New Yorker even ranks to find out who won the TV talent show “American Idol.”But some of the strangest calls were about animals, like the woman who rang…
The building of Huanan seafood market, where the second floor remains open for optics stores, and where coronavirus believed to have first surfaced, almost a year after the start of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China December 8, 2020. Photo by Reuters/Aly Song New sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as additional genomic data based on samples taken from a live animal market in Wuhan, China in 2020 were briefly uploaded to the GISAID database by Chinese scientists earlier this year, allowing them to be viewed by researchers in other countries, according to the statement…
By AFP  March 19, 2023 | 07:24am GMT+7 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a meeting at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on March 18, 2023. Photo by AFP/David Mareuil Japan and Germany pledged closer defense ties and cooperation on diversifying supply chains as Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo Saturday. Scholz is on his second trip to Japan in less than a year, and came with six ministers for government-to-government talks as Berlin works to boost its profile in the Asia-Pacific region, and ahead…
A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been investigating a$130,000payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels, declined to comment.No US president – while in office or afterward – has faced criminal charges. Trump is seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024. He has said he will continue campaigning even if he is charged with a crime.”Illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political Manhattan district attorney’s office … indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven … the far & away leading Republican candidate & former president of the United States of America, will…
Puteri Rafasya fell on the metal legs of a tripod on Feb 22 when another child pulled away a chair the girl was supposed to sit on. Photo by Puteri Rafasya Instagram A Malaysian child actress is now unable to walk and has to wear diapers following a nasty prank while filming a drama series in late February. On Feb 22, Puteri Rafasya, 12, was about to sit on a chair during rehearsals when another child pulled the chair away.Puteri fell and landed on the metal legs of a tripod. She fractured her hip bone and is currently experiencing numbness…
Singer Hoa Minzy with the concept for her song “Thi Mau”. Photo courtesy of Hoa Minzy Hoa Minzy’s new viral music video “Thi Mau” has prompted TikTok trends in which users play the song in their videos and recreate the main character’s look. The song “Thi Mau” is based on a female character of the same name in the narrative poem “Quan Am Thi Kinh”, a popular work of Vietnamese literature. She is depicted as a bold and beautiful, yet unfortunate woman.After releasing the music video for “Thi Mau” on YouTube on Mar. 5, Hoa Minzy uploaded a short clip…
By Reuters  March 18, 2023 | 12:10 p.m. GMT+7 Headquarters of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, is pictured in Beijing, China, September 28, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Jason Lee China’s central bank made a “timely” move by pumping liquidity into the banking system to respond to rising pressures in the domestic banking industry and growing risks abroad, a state-owned Chinese newspaper said on Saturday. The central bank on Friday reduced the amount of cash banks must hold as reserves for the first time this year to support a nascent recovery in the world’s second-biggest economy. The cut…