Alan Lu

1 week ago | vodafone.co.uk | Alan Lu

By adding Xbox Game Pass to their Pay Monthly plans, Vodafone customers can play hundreds of PC and console games. Vodafone Pay Monthly mobile customers can now add Xbox Game Pass to their bill using Vodafone’s ‘Add to Plan’ feature. Vodafone customers can choose from two versions of Microsoft’s game subscription service, with both offering access to hundreds of games. The continuously updated catalogue includes titles from well-known franchises such as Call of Duty, Forza and Age of Empires.

1 week ago | rfa.org | Alan Lu

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Senior members of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, the city’s last remaining major opposition party, said that Chinese officials and their proxies had warned the party to disband or face “serious consequences,” including possible arrests. Founded in 1994, the Democratic Party was Hong Kong’s first major pro-democracy political force. It emerged from a movement that began in 1982 to oppose any erosion of freedoms from China-U.K. negotiations on the territory’s future.

1 week ago | rfa.org | Alan Lu

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Meta compromised U.S. national security and freedom of speech to do business with China, a company whistleblower testified before U.S. senators. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global policy director at Facebook, told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg personally designed and implemented a content review tool for Facebook that was used in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

2 weeks ago | rfa.org | Alan Lu

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Ukrainian security service has evidence that more than 150 Chinese citizens are fighting alongside Russian troops, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, following the capture of two Chinese soldiers in eastern Ukraine. Zelenskyy, in a post on X, said Ukraine was working to verify all the details concerning the two captured Chinese soldiers and others with Russia’s invading forces.

2 weeks ago | rfa.org | Alan Lu

TAIPEI, Taiwan – The Philippines said the detention of three Filipinos in China for alleged espionage could be retaliation for Manila’s crackdown against alleged Chinese spies. Chinese authorities arrested the Filipinos, accusing them of working for the Philippine intelligence agency to gather classified information on its military, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported last week, citing state security officials. It said the three had confessed to the crime.