Despite promises to cut steel overcapacity, China actually brought more steel production online last year, resulting in a surge in air pollution in northern China, especially around Beijing, according to a report released this week by Greenpeace East Asia. The growth in operating capacity was more than twice the total steel making capacity of Britain, the report said. The increase… Read more »
The Associated Press reports Russia must abide by a 2015 deal aimed at ending fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists as the Trump administration searches for ways to work cooperatively with Moscow, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday. Tillerson spoke after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for the first time, the highest-level face-to-face contact between… Read more »
BONN, Germany — By the time Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson decided that he wanted to join his counterparts at an important global gathering in Bonn — his first trip overseas as America’s top diplomat — all the good hotel rooms in this small German city had been taken. So Mr. Tillerson and his entourage of temporary State Department… Read more »
To be quite frank, this region is new ground for me. My prior perception of eastern asia is one of stagnancy and stability, although doing some minor research has raised my eye on a few things. One of the major red flags I found was the story on the disappearance of Xian Jianhua. When I first heard about the event… Read more »
SEOUL — On his first official trip to South Korea and Japan this week, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to reassure allies made nervous by President Donald Trump’s criticisms of “free rider” nations that do not pay their fair share of mutual defense costs.
MANILA: The top commander of the Islamic State (IS) terror group in South-East Asia has been gravely wounded in air strikes by security forces hunting him in the southern Philippines, the Philippine military said Sunday.
HONG KONG • Where is billionaire Xiao Jianhua? That depends on whom you ask, and the answer may further inflame Hong Kongers worried that China is increasingly meddling in the city’s affairs.
Hyderabad, India (CNN)”That night he took me with him. He forced himself on me. I was crying. [He said] I’ve bought you, I can do whatever I want. I’ve given your parents money, I can use you for as long as I like. Keep your mouth shut.” Muneera Begum, now aged 19, lives in Hyderabad, India. She says she was… Read more »