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The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) issued a supplementary and clarification statement on its official website earlier this month to confirm the agreement of Mutual Recognition Accord which was signed in 2011 with the U.S. International Qualifications Appraisal Board (IQAB) which under the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), will be expired on Dec 31 this year.

On May 26, Moto Nakatani, the former Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party's assistant in charge of international human rights affairs, discussed the issue of the forced detention of Uyghur minorities in Communist China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, especially the recent leaked list of more than 20,000 detainees and other internal documents of the Chinese Government.

Ms Ardern also aims to strengthen trade with the US and bring more tourists to New Zealand, which is currently in a border reopening process after over two years of COVID-19 pandemic border closures.

On May 25th, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said he had always been open to negotiations with Russia, but only for direct talks with Putin.

On May 24th, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, has called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to remove trade sanctions, he told reporters after attending the Quad summit in Tokyo with the U.S. president Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Modi.

It is reported on May 25, that the Indian Government issued a statement saying that it will limit the export of sugar to ensure sufficient supply for the country and the price stability. India is one of the world's major sugar producers and the second largest sugar exporter after Brazil. This will be the first time India has imposed restrictions on sugar exports in six years, aiming to ensure a stable domestic supply.

On Wednesday, the United States will close the last avenue for Russia to repay billions of dollars of debt to international investors, making it likely that Russia will default on its debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution.

Following Samsung, South Korea's SK Group announced on Thursday, May 26 that it will invest about 247 trillion Korean won (about 195.2 billion US dollars) in semiconductor, battery and other related fields in the next five years.

The threat of food insecurity around the world, the lingering CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic. As business leaders, government officials and other dignitaries gather in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, there is growing pessimism about the coming months.

On May 24, it was reported, the U.N. Human Rights Chief agreed to visit Communist China was a mistake because of concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Government's restrictions on her visit could undermine censorship of Beijing's human rights record, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

Russia removes age limit for joining the military by legislation.

According to a reports on May 25th, the Communist China has organized ‘multi-services combat readiness’ patrols and combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan in response to recent 'U.S.-Taiwan collusion activities'.

According to a report by the Ukrainian Information Daily on May 26th, Serhiy Dvornik, adviser to the Ukrainian mission to the United Nations, accused the Security Council on Wednesday that Russia had abducted 230,000 Ukrainian children from the occupied territories into Russian territory.

The National Medical Insurance Administration of Communist China recently sent documents to all parts of the country, expressly prohibiting medical insurance funds from paying for nucleic acid testing for large-scale populations and requiring relevant regions to rectify the situation.

Milley stressed, the U.S. military cannot afford to be old-fashioned, but must urgently modernize and develop the forces and equipment that can deter or, if necessary, prevail in a global conflict. And the graduating officers must change the way U.S. forces think, train and fight.

The DOJ accuses that Steve Wynn acted as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agent without being registered under Foreign Agents Registration Acts (FARA).

On the 24th, opposition members of Congress formed a “super-partisan coalition of parliamentarians (tentative name) to seriously consider vaccinating children” against the CCP virus.

President Biden visited Asia for the first time since taking office, he praised Fumio Kishida's determination to strengthen Japan's defense capabilities and supported Japan's plan to strengthen its defense capabilities to counter China's growing influence in Asia. In addition, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that Biden supports Japan becoming a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

It is reported that after a theatre building in Mariupol, which served as a shelter, was attacked by Russia’s airstrike killing nearly 600 Ukrainians, another 200 bodies were found under the rubble in Mariupol basement, Ukrainian authorities said.

It is reported on May 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that the Ukrainian will once again sit down with Russian representatives to have a meeting when Ukrainian troops go back to pre-invasion positions that began three months ago.

It was reported on May 24th, that the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said in an interview that two months ago there was assassination attempts against Russian President Putin, but Russian authority thwarted the attempts.