Source: France24 Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an unannounced trip to an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign. Suu Kyi, a nobel laureate who leads Myanmar’s pro-democracy party, has been hammered by the international community for failing… Read more »
Source: Al Jazeera Shanghai, China – A trade deficit that US President Donald Trump has called “embarrassing” and the increasing threat posed by North Korea will be atop the agenda on his first official visit to Beijing on Wednesday. Trump has embarked on a 12-day trip to the Asia-Pacific and will arrive in China just two weeks after the end of… Read more »
Source: Al Jazeera Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen landed in Honolulu en route to the island’s diplomatic allies among Pacific nations, despite strong objections to the visit from China. Under UN Resolution 2758 self-ruled Taiwan is the sovereign territory of China. China regularly calls it the most sensitive and important issue between it and the US, complaining to Washington about transit stops by Taiwanese high-level… Read more »
China’s parliament has made disrespecting the national anthem a criminal offence punishable by up to three years in jail. Members of China’s Communist Party-controlled legislature, the National People’s Congress, approved the amendment on Saturday that could see offenders face imprisonment of up to three years. Legislators are extending the law to the semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and Macau, the latest in a… Read more »