East Asia

Japan, Australia deepen security cooperation as they keep wary eye on China

U.S. allies Japan and Australia said they would deepen their security relationship, allowing Japanese self-defense forces to train in Australia…

2 years ago

Trappings of North Korean leader’s lavish lifestyle visible by satellite

Bruce Songhak Chung is the deputy director of the Geo Satellite Information Research Institute at Kyungpook National University in South…

2 years ago

Australia announces substantial aid boost for the Pacific

Australia will increase its aid to the Pacific by more than half a billion U.S. dollars over four years, Foreign…

2 years ago

Six Tibetan writers, activists sentenced by China on ‘state security’ charges

Chinese authorities in Tibet have sentenced six Tibetan writers and activists to prison terms from four to 14 years on…

2 years ago

China’s Xi opens CCP congress stressing security, pressure on Taiwan

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which convened in Beijing on Oct. 16 for a week,…

2 years ago

Elderly suicide rates mar Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ‘victory’ over rural poverty

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which convenes in Beijing on Oct. 16, is expected to…

2 years ago

Mercurial and combative Solomon Islands leader reaps benefits where he may

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has maneuvered himself to the center of U.S.-China rivalry in the Pacific, stirring debate about…

2 years ago

Hong Kong police say cartoonist’s art damages their image

Hong Kong police have expressed “strong concerns” to the city’s Ming Pao newspaper over what a spokesman called a “misleading”…

2 years ago

Laos put on edge by two recent brutal killings of Chinese nationals

The grisly killings of two Chinese nationals, whose bodies were found stuffed into bags and floating in rivers within two…

2 years ago

The single-person quarantine zones in Shanghai are the new NORMAL amid fresh lockdown fears

China is stepping up its efforts to control Covid-19 outbreaks ahead of the 20th National Party Congress, with national cases…

2 years ago

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