Largely rubber-stamp Chinese body kicks off its full annual session on Friday in Beijing.
'These journalists are members of a free press, not propaganda cadres, and their valuable reporting informs Chinese citizens and the world,' Pompeo says in a statement.
There have been allegations of police brutality against pro-democracy protesters.
Both China and the United States have ramped up military activities near Taiwan in recent months.
U.S. National Security Advisory Robert O'Brien and White House Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow sent a letter to Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia opposing such plans by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
A North Korean military representative reportedly said the drills were a grave provocation that demanded a reaction.
'I hope he's fine,' Trump says about North Korean leader.
Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party retains tight media censorship and does not tolerate criticism.
The protest was the first sizable gathering since the government imposed the ban on public meetings at the end of March to curb a spike in coronavirus infections.
Two sources at Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, told Reuters that Patra's WhatsApp account had been found on Wednesday to be "compromised," possibly in a targeted attack.
China's northeastern city of Harbin has had several clusters of infections in local hospitals.
In a statement, the information ministry said the U.N.-marked car came under gunfire from insurgents while carrying swabs from Rakhine to the biggest city, Yangon.
The quarrel, which has seen Southeast Asian internet users join forces with those in Taiwan and Hong Kong, has highlighted old tensions between China and its smaller neighbors fanned by the emergence of the new coronavirus.
Thailand is among Southeast Asian countries that are canceling or scaling back traditionally boisterous Buddhist New Year celebrations amid the global pandemic.
Zoom's daily users ballooned to more than 200 million in March, as coronavirus-induced shutdowns forced employees to work from home and schools switched to the company's free app for conducting and coordinating online classes.
Anyone who violates the new law faces six months in jail and a fine of HK$50,000 ($6,450).
North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast Sunday, the latest in a flurry of launches that South Korea decried as 'inappropriate' amid the coronavirus pandemic
FireEye Inc. said in a report it had spotted a spike in activity from a hacking group it dubs "APT41" that began on Jan. 20 and targeted more than 75 of its customers.
After weeks of speculation and mounting criticism at the delay in announcing a postponement, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and IOC president Thomas Bach agreed the event would be rescheduled for the summer of 2021 at the latest.
China announced on March 18 it was revoking the press accreditations of all American journalists in the China bureaus of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, which were due to expire at the end of 2020.
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