In China, the President and Vice President are limited to two five-year terms. However, an article by Al Jazeera noted the Communist Party of China desires to change this term limit, allowing future leaders to serve more than two consecutive terms. Current President Xi Jinping would benefit the most from the new amendment to the constitution, as it would allow… Read more »
On December 7, a group of one-year-old students were getting ready to play outside at their nursery school on the Japanese island of Okinawa when the sound of a low-flying helicopter and a loud bang rang out. Miyagi’s colleagues ran to the roof and found a cylindrical object with a red label bearing the words: “Remove before flight” and “US”…. Read more »
The United States is willing to talk to North Korea, but only if those talks will lead to an end of the North Korean nuclear programme. “We will see if Pyongyang’s message today, that it is willing to hold talks, represents the first steps along the path to denuclearisation,” the White House said. “In the meantime, the United States and… Read more »
China’s ruling party is considering scrapping term limits for the president and vice president, it announced on Sunday. The Communist party of China has proposed to change the country’s constitution so that the president and vice president can serve more than two consecutive terms. Currently, there is a limit of two five-year terms for both presidents and vice presidents. The… Read more »
The Philippines will allow an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in its bloody war on drugs, but not if it is conducted by the United Nations’ current special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, a senior official said on Tuesday. More than 30 mostly Western countries have called on the Philippines to allow the UN expert, Agnes Callamard, to look into… Read more »
As a country that shares its borders with 14 neighbors, China has decided to take an offensive approach in its world affairs. China’s geographical position in Asia, especially in regards to its ports, would, without their strategic and aggressive maneuvering, completely contain their sphere of influence to the mainland.
Bangladesh’s central bank is to file a lawsuit against a Philippines bank for its role in one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists two years ago, a deputy governor said. Unidentified hackers stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the New York Fed in February 2016, using fraudulent orders on the SWIFT payments system. The money was sent to accounts… Read more »
Protesters have rallied outside the Chinese consulate in the Philippines capital, Manila, against China’s militarisation of the disputed islands in the South China Sea. Saturday’s demonstration came after local newspapers published images on Monday that showed China had transformed at least seven reefs into artificial fortresses, complete with naval and air facilities, including runways and helipads, declared by a UN… Read more »
The idea of building a shipping lane from one side of the country to the other, linking the Gulf of Thailand, or Gulf of Siam as it was known at the time, with the Andaman Sea and Indian Ocean, was first proposed by King Narai in 1677. Now, in 2018, the proposal is back.
Human rights groups and indigenous activists have accused Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of inciting the military to commit war crimes after he offered a $384 bounty for each communist rebel killed. Last week, Duterte said he would train indigenous people, or lumads, to become paramilitary fighters and pay them 20,000 pesos ($384) for each communist rebel they kill in their… Read more »