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India’s celebrated player Mahesh Bhupathi had launched the League in 2014 on the lines of much successful cricket league IPL. It began with four teams with bases in India, Dubai, Singapore and Manila. Japan was added in the 2015 season but in 2016 again it was back to four teams with Manila backing out, reportedly because the League did not fulfil its financial obligations. The League was not played in 2017 as Singapore Slammers complained of payment issues....

Evan McPherson drilled a 31-yard field goal in overtime to give Cincinnati the 27-24 win at Kansas City in the AFC championship game Sunday. A week after winning in OT in the divisional round, the Chiefs won the toss but Patrick Mahomes threw an interception on third-and-10, giving Cincinnati the ball at their 45. From there, it was all the Bengals. MORE: How the Bengals prepared for Arrowhead noise ahead of AFC championship...

Sanchez has put his Manchester United struggles behind him to net in each of La Roja’s wins so far in Brazil. However, he was already carrying an ankle knock by the time he scored decisively after 51 minutes of the 2-1 triumph over Ecuador last time out. Should he take to the field, the 30-year-old will feature in opposition to some of this generation’s finest attacking talent from South America....

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“(1) It is estimated that 100,000 Uyghurs and other ethnic minority ex-detainees in China may be working in conditions of forced labor following detention in re-education camps. (2) Many more rural poor workers also may experience coercion without detention. (3; 4) China has been included on the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor of Forced Labor (TVPRA List) since 2009,” the report published Tuesday morning said. As a result, the Department of Labor added five additional goods to the list of items believed to be produced by Muslim minorities in China through forced labor....

Sandesh Jhingan wore the captain’s armband in place of Sunil and rightly so, he rallied the defense with as much rigour he can ever produce. For some reason, bigger responsibility seems to be bringing out better results from him. One can argue that Stephen Constantine knew that it will be the defense that will be key against China, and hence wanted Sandesh as the captain. But in the end, you can say that move worked wonders....

“Plant seeds are articles prohibited as imports or in transit or admitted conditionally for [Universal Postal Union] member countries,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, said during a news briefing on Tuesday. “China Post strictly follows the UPU provisions and prohibits seeds from conveyance by post USPS [United States Postal Service] recently found some packages of seeds with address labels suggesting they were sent from China.” Wang added that following “verification” with the China post, the address labels on the seeds “turned out to be fake ones with erroneous layouts and entries....

Social media images from the town of Wanding and the city of Ruili—both in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province—show 6- to 9-foot barbed-wire metal fences separating the two countries, U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Monday. While media reports in China say the boundary fence has helped prevent illegal crossings and by extension COVID-19 outbreaks, the RFA report said it could also keep Chinese dissidents from fleeing the country....

Secretary of State Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin are conducting the Biden administration’s first overseas diplomatic calls and were scheduled to meet their Japanese counterparts for “2+2” dialogue this week. The trip comes a few days after President Joe Biden hosted virtually the first-ever leaders’ summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a coalition commentators say is now ostensibly tasked with countering Beijing’s growing influence. China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian was critical of both initiatives during a daily press briefing on Monday....

Officers with the city’s national security unit detained four members of the Hong Kong Alliance—the group organizing the annual Tiananmen vigil—for failing to submit information including membership details and meeting records, the authorities said. Among those arrested were Hong Kong Alliance Chair Chow Hang-tung, who had been given 14 days to submit the information, according to a notice issued under the sweeping Hong Kong national security law passed by Beijing last summer....

Republican congressmen told Newsweek that they believed China should be held accountable for its efforts to suppress reports of the new disease in December last year, as well as its wider failure to be transparent with the international community. They also said the Chinese Communist Party’s actions amid the pandemic were “disgusting” and “disgraceful” as they suggested the U.S. should further split with Beijing. “The Chinese Communist Party’s blatant mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated the public health and economic crisis currently plaguing the international community,” Sen....

Shi, also known as the “Bat Woman” because of her long-standing research on bat coronaviruses, has been a target of those who believe the lab is the likely source of the outbreak. Members of Congress and former Trump officials have pointed to gain-of-function research being conducted at the lab as evidence of a potential leak, but Shi rejected she was conducting the controversial experiments. “I’m sure that I did nothing wrong,” Shi told The New York Times....

Taiwan’s government has been lauded for its swift and effective pandemic response. The democratic island nation of 24 million people has reported 942 cases to date, including nine deaths, since the beginning of the outbreak. More than a year on from its first confirmed case on January 21, 2020—a resident who had returned from Wuhan the day before—the conversation has now shifted to any upcoming immunization program. The administration of President Tsai Ing-wen has managed to secure 20 million vaccines, with another 25 doses in the pipeline, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control has said....

Retired Admiral William McRaven—who headed the Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014 and oversaw the operation that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden—described Chinese military evolution as a “holy s***” moment for the U.S. during a Council on Foreign Relations event on Wednesday to mark the release of a new report, Business Insider reported. Beijing has invested huge sums over recent decades to transform its military from an enormous but low-tech force into a modern one capable of force projection in East Asia and further afield....

On ’ Big Ideas, Bright Stars ’ : “Michelle Rhee is doing exactly what students need, not just in D.C. but in many inner-city public schools. If we don’t demand more from supervisors and teachers, how can we demand more from students?” Darian Weaver, Freeport, N.Y. A Changing China In “Mao To Now” (Dec. 31/Jan. 7), Melinda Liu paints a masterful picture of China, but what isn’t said is as telling as what is....

In an 18-minute virtual address at the Boao Forum for Asia, a four-day event hosted from the Hainan province in southern China, Xi warned against “unilateralism” and said rules should not be set by “one or a few countries.” More than 4,000 Chinese officials and businesspeople were expected to physically attend Boao—China’s response to the World Economic Forum in Davos—and high-profile guests including Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk were also on the bill, China Daily reports....

Biden was speaking in Iowa on Tuesday when he used the word for the first time, describing his Russian opposite number as a dictator who “declares war and commits genocide half a world away.” The American president later said the pointed declaration, which carriers implications in international law, was deliberate. Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said Beijing was aware of Biden’s charged remarks, but his brief response suggested Beijing would remain noncommittal about the Kremlin’s actions, 46 days into the invasion of Ukraine....

In the last Olympics, the Chinese short trackers swept the women’s 500m, 1,000m, 1,500m and 3,000m relay golds mainly thanks to Meng, who pulled out of Sochi after sustaining an ankle injury, reports Xinhua. China claimed their first medal Monday as Han Tianyu, 17, clocked two minutes and 15.055 seconds, equalling the best ever result by a Chinese men’s short tracker at the Olympics. Han trailed Canadian World No. 1 Charles Hamelin by 0....

She finished 4th in the 500 m event on Tuesday, and this was known to be her stronger event, but it’s still a stunning result. It’s also China’s first Olympic title in speed skating (the official name for long track, as opposed to short track, in which China has long excelled). Perhaps it’s the little bit of magic needed to spark the rest of the team. 0 votes

Not as much as he thought. Bei Ling, who is a U.S. permanent resident, traveled to Beijing in late May. On Aug. 11 he planned to attend a cultural forum. Bei Ling never showed up. He was detained by police, arrest-ed and held incommunicado in Qinghe Detention Center. Last Thursday his brother Huang Feng, 32, was also detained by police. Bei’s stateside supporters warned that the arrest could rouse anti-Beijing sentiment on the eve of a congressional debate over granting permanent normal trading status to China....