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NBA San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who guided the US team at the Basketball World Cup last month in China, said he is "thrilled" with NBA commissioner Adam Silver's defending free speech in the ongoing controversy with China

A screenshot from a video by ATV-Studio Halle. Witnesses said a synagogue was among the gunmen's targets as Jewish worshippers marking the holy day of Yom Kippur

Can a deal, even a limited one, be delivered?

There had been speculation that the Xi-Modi talks might be postponed because of several disagreements

China on Wednesday slammed NBA commissioner Adam Silver's defence of free speech, cancelling a basketball fan event and lashing him in the state-run press, as Apple was warned it could be the next Western firm punished for supporting democracy protesters in Hong Kong.The NBA had been looking to cement its already huge popularity in the lucrative China market this week with a pair of annual pre-season exhibition games, but those plans were thrown into disarray by a tweet from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey backing the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Can a deal, even a limited one, be delivered?

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Activision Blizzard punished a pro player for speaking out on behalf of Hong Kong.

The NBA preseason games in China between the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets could be cancelled due to that controversial tweet made by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey.

NBA critics and fans may be making fun of Ben Simmons after making the first three-point shot of his NBA career in an official game. Most fail to realize that if it becomes a habit, he will be even more dangerous.

Famous football pundit Guillem Balague has said Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale is "fed up and angry," and wants to leave the Spanish club.

China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group's identity in Xinjiang.In just two years, dozens of cemeteries have been destroyed in the northwest region, according to an AFP investigation with satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance.Some of the graves were cleared with little care -- in Shayar county, AFP journalists saw unearthed human bones left discarded in three sites. In other sites tombs that were reduced to mounds of bricks lay scattered in cleared tracts of land.

Chinese state media accused NBA Commissioner Adam Silver of 'willing to be another handy tool for US interference' after he insisted the league would not apologise for a tweet supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

Golden State Warriors are not to be blamed for Kevin Durant's 2019-20 season ending Achilles injury.

There had been speculation that the Xi-Modi talks might be postponed because of several disagreements

Chiang Mai zoo director Wutthichai Muangmun said that before his death, Chuang Chuang was doing what he liked best -- eating bamboo

There are signs of slight bullishness for Bitcoin as it reemerged above the $8000 level on Tuesday.

Apple has a huge presence in China

Uighur men dance before sightseers after Eid al-Fitr prayers in June 2019 in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar

Singapore surged to the top spot, with the Forum noting that the country had benefited from trade diversion through its ports triggered by the US-China trade war

The visa restrictions announced by the United States on Chinese officials over the alleged abuse of Muslim minorities in China have jolted the high-level Sino, U.S. trade war talks.