WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea should not expect rewards from talks with the United States until it takes irreversible steps to give up its nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, said on Thursday. Pompeo said the historical analysis was “not optimistic,” when asked at his Senate confirmation hearing if he believed North… Read more »
SASEBO/TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Japan on Saturday activated its first marine unit since World War Two trained to counter invaders occupying Japanese islands along the edge of the East China Sea that Tokyo fears are vulnerable to attack by China. In a ceremony held at a military base near Sasebo on the southwest island of Kyushu, about 1,500 members of… Read more »
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told members of parliament they must “fast-track” the impeachment of the country’s top judge after she hinted that he might be behind the moves to sack her.
n Wednesday rejected a motion to drop a case against two Reuters journalists arrested while investigating a massacre of Rohingya, even as seven soldiers were given lengthy sentences for their role in the killings.
A former senior Communist Party official who was once tipped to be China’s future president has pleaded guilty to accepting millions in bribes at his trial on Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday trade negotiations with the United States would be impossible as Washington’s attempts at dialogue were not sincere, and vowed to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump escalates current tensions.
After taking the United States by storm, the, “Me too,” movement is going international. In this case, the movement is on the rise in South Korea. In one of the, “world’s worst workplaces for women,” there have been a series of accusations from women who were previously sexually assaulted. These accusations have come up against all types of public influencers-… Read more »
Police in Thailand announced Tuesday that they confiscated an estimated $54 million worth of methamphetamine in one of their biggest-ever drug seizures and arrested 11 people in recent days as illegal drug cases surge in the country. They said the seizure took place Monday night in the northern province of Chiang Rai on a road by the Mekong River, the… Read more »
While slower to emerge than in the U.S., the #MeToo movement is reverberating quickly in South Korea where a flurry of headline-grabbing accusations have ignited calls for overhauling one of the world’s worst workplaces for women. A series of high-profile sexual assault and harassment allegations against some of Korea’s most prominent politicians, actors and professors in the past two months… Read more »
Ambassadors and representatives of 28 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa and elsewhere gathered on Wednesday at the Colombian Embassy in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, to promote awareness of the destructive consequences of landmines and other explosive remnants of war. April 4 was designated International Mine Awareness Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005. Since 2011, a Colombian NGO… Read more »