China’s military issued “robust” challenges to three Australian warships as they travelled through the South China Sea to Vietnam earlier this month, the ABC reports. Defence sources said the confrontations between HMAS Anzac, HMAS Toowoomba and HMAS Success and the People’s Liberation Army occurred ahead of the Australian vessels’ arrival for a three-day goodwill visit in Ho Chi Minh City. One… Read more »
South Korea’s disgraced former president Park Geun-hye was jailed for 24 years Friday for corruption, closing out a dramatic fall from grace for the country’s first woman leader who became a figure of public fury and ridicule. The sentence followed a trial lasting more than 10 months which ended with Park being found guilty on multiple criminal charges, including bribery and abuse of power…. Read more »
For all the slander that Donald Trump faces on a day to day basis, one thing (though the left denies it frequently) that the Commander in Chief is doing right, is his policy on North Korea. While on the surface Trump has remained strong willed, belligerent, and seemingly provoking, his methods have proved to work thus far. Trump will be… Read more »
Al-jazeera Chinese President Xi Jinping has overseen what is being labelled as the country’s largest naval military drill in the contested South China Sea. Clad in military fatigues and as determined as ever to modernise the People’s Liberation Army, Xi on Friday presided over a large military parade involving the country’s only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. “Building a strong navy has never become… Read more »
Straitsnews.com SEOUL – North Korea is committed to “complete denuclearisation” and will not make unacceptable demands such as the withdrawal of United States troops stationed in South Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae In said on Thursday (April 19), a week before his summit with the regime’s leader. This is even as Washington vowed to maintain maximum pressure on Pyongyang, with… Read more »
Straitsnews.com BEIJING/TAIPEI • Chinese aircraft have again flown around self-ruled Taiwan in what China’s air force yesterday called a “sacred mission”, as Taiwan denounced its big neighbour over what it called a policy of military intimidation. H-6K bombers, Su-30 and J-11 fighters and reconnaissance aircraft took part in a patrol around Taiwan, air force spokesman Shen Jinke told the official… Read more »
Straitstimes.com North Korea has expressed its desire for “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula and is not seeking conditions such as US troops withdrawing from the South first, South Korean President Moon Jae In (above) said yesterday. He also said a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War “must be pursued”. But he cautioned that implementing any deal with… Read more »
If someone was told a year ago that North Korea would most likely end up in direct negotiations with the US and South Korea, they probably wouldn’t have believed it. Now, the peninsula is a week away from a summit between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, with reports about what will be discussed popping up every few days. The ones… Read more »
BEIJING/CHICAGO (Reuters) – China will slap hefty anti-dumping deposits on imports of U.S. sorghum from Wednesday, the government said on Tuesday, a higher-than-expected charge on the grain used in livestock feed and the spirits industry, as trade tensions escalate between the world’s top two economies. CHS Inc and other U.S. companies will have to put up a 178.6 percent deposit… Read more »
Source: Al Jazeera Rohingya rights groups sceptical as Myanmar announces repatriation of first family of Rohingya refugees. Rights groups are expressing scepticism over the announcement that Myanmar has repatriated the first Rohingya family, despite warnings from the UN. “This is a deception,” Rohingya Blogger, a watchdog and Rohingya rights website run by Rohingya activists in Europe, said in a statement on Sunday…. Read more »