With the news of China shutting down North Korean stores, North Korea will lose millions of dollars in revenue due to their volatile rhetoric with their recent 6th and most powerful nuclear test. The new sanctions will be enforced within the next 120 days, closing North Korean stores based in China with the threat of them being alternatively forced by… Read more »
Ethnic tensions between the Rohingya Muslims and Myanmar Buddhists have been rising for years, and it’s finally reached a tipping point last month. Myanmar’s government justification for obvious ethnic cleansing is that the Rohingya living in the Rhakine state are creating terrorist organizations and that the rest are illegal immigrants. The Rohingya Muslims are the biggest stateless ethnic group in… Read more »
(USA Today) TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, paving the way for a snap election on Oct. 22. Abe is widely seen as trying to reconsolidate his grip on power within the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, so he can extend the term of his premiership next year. The dissolution of the more powerful… Read more »
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Yonhap) — China has ordered North Korean companies in the country to close down within 120 days of the United Nations Security Council’s passage of the latest of sanctions on Sept. 12, according to China’s commerce ministry on Thursday. The decision, made public on the ministry website, is seen as part of its efforts to intensify pressure… Read more »
Rohingya crisis: Myanmar postpones diplomats’ Rakhine visit 2 hours ago(Sep. 28, 2017) Myanmar’s authorities have postponed a visit by UN officials and diplomats to Rakhine state, which has seen a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims. A UN spokesman in Yangon initially told the BBC no reason was given, but later said it was due to bad weather. The spokesman said… Read more »
The Rohingya crisis: Why won’t Aung San Suu Kyi act? By Fergal KeaneBBC News 8 September 2017 She was the perfect symbol of democracy. Highly intelligent, well-read, articulate and photogenic. Set against this, the thuggish Burmese generals could never hope to capture the good opinion of the international media. Not that they ever cared to try. Those of us who… Read more »
Myanmar: What sparked latest violence in Rakhine? 19 September 2017 A fresh outbreak of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya civilians to flee to Bangladesh. The exodus began on 25 August after Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 members of the security forces. Those attacks led to a security crackdown. Myanmar’s military says… Read more »
After Cambodia’s press shut down, there is less insight into what reprimands came of the arrest of the opposing political party’s president. The “democracy” functions more like Russia’s, in that there is only an allusion of choice and say in the government. Earlier in history this may have caused the
Japan’s Government is rethinking its approach to the North Korean Missile Crisis after the recent missile launches over their country. Multiple political leaders are debating multiple strategies to deal with the situation. One option which has been favored by a majority is the idea of re militarizing the Japanese naval defenses. This decision has been scrutinized by multiple American authorities… Read more »
Following Donald Trump’s threat of reigning terror on North Korea, South Korea President Moon Jae-In would rather take a different approach. South Korea will host the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in the city of PyeongChang, 30 years after hosting in Seoul. During the Olympics, President Jae-In hopes his ‘audacious’ plan will succeed, with hopes of bringing ‘peace and reconciliation’ to the… Read more »