YANGON (Reuters) – After driving nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims out of the country, Myanmar’s military is building bases where some of their homes and mosques once stood, Amnesty International said on Monday, citing new evidence from satellite imagery. A harsh security response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents on Aug. 25 sent members of the mostly stateless minority fleeing to Bangladesh… Read more »
Taiwan will look to its domestic arms industry as well as foreign suppliers to respond to China’s continuing military buildup, but has no interest in engaging in an arms race with its cross-strait rival, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. China recently announced its rise in their military budget, this is the second country to spend this much money on their… Read more »
Taiwan will look to its domestic arms industry as well as foreign suppliers to respond to China’s continuing military buildup, but has no interest in engaging in an arms race with its cross-strait rival, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
SINGAPORE: China’s annual parliamentary session is set to convene with Premier Li Keqiang delivering his annual work report on Monday (Mar 5).
Over the past decade, Beijing has undeniably dealt a blow to the United States in the clean energy technology market. China is now the world’s dominant producer of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries as it continues to capture strategic, advanced technology markets. Looking to Pakistan, Beijing has its eye on power lines next.
A US Carrier just made its first visit to Vietnam since the Vietnam war, and Beijing officials are not happy about it. According to an editorial, the visit of USS Carl Vinson will not stir up trouble with China, but rather just waste the US’ money. Although officials in China are reasonably upset, there is no reason for China to… Read more »
BEIJING — Beijing is unhappy with the first visit by a U.S. aircraft carrier to a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War and is monitoring developments, a Communist Party newspaper said Wednesday. However, the Global Times said the USS Carl Vinson’s visit was unlikely to alter the balance of power in the South China Sea, which China claims virtually in… Read more »
When China hosted the last serious talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, in the mid-2000s, the setting was a huge, hexagonal table covered in green felt, in a government guesthouse in Beijing.
Perth family has found the world’s oldest known message in a bottle, almost 132 years after it was thrown into the sea, Australian experts say. Tonya Illman picked up the bottle while going for a walk around sand dunes on a remote beach in West Australia. Her husband Kym Illman told the BBC they found some paper in the bottle… Read more »
Eruptions continued Wednesday at Shinmoedake in the Kirishima mountain range straddling Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the smoke rose about 3,000 meters above the crater at around 6:15 a.m. on the day. The agency issued a warning of volcanic rocks and pyroclastic flows for areas within three kilometers of the crater. The agency said a… Read more »