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BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) — Thai veterinarians on Monday (March 6) removed 915 coins from a 25-year-old sea turtle which had been swallowing items thrown into her pool for good luck, eventually limiting her ability to swim. Doctors found the turtle named Omsin – piggy bank in Thai – was irregularly floating in the water from her head to upper torso but her left rear end was sinking under water. After they did a CT scan, […]
(Reuters) — The USS Carl Vinson led on Thursday and Friday (March 2-3) a carrier strike group in waters some 400 nautical miles east of China’s Hainan Island and northeast of the Paracels, the island chain occupied by Beijing since it seized control from Vietnam in the 1970s. Some 30 fighter jets, helicopters and other aircraft took to the sky on Friday while crew raced to service them, check their instruments and fit weapons. […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) –The only North Korean arrested over the dramatic airport assassination of Kim Jong-Nam is to be freed, Malaysia’s attorney general said Thursday. The announcement came the day after two young women appeared in court and were charged with murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un with a banned nerve agent. It also came hours after Kuala Lumpur said it was abruptly ending a visa waiver program that allows […]
Japan’s emperor Akihito and empress Michiko meet Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang on their first visit to the country, the latest in a series of trips to former World War II battlegrounds.
CEBU CITY (PIA) — Secretary Martin M. Andanar of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) is set to lead the ASEAN – PCOO Roadshow which will be held in Cebu on Friday, March 3. The Cebu event which comes after the Roadshows at Davao City, Zamboanga City and Baguio City, is part of the PCOO’s nationwide information, education, and communication campaign on the country’s chairmanship of the 2017 ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nation). […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s emperor left for Vietnam on Tuesday to meet families of Japanese soldiers sent there by his father more than seven decades earlier during World War II. The 83-year-old Akihito and his wife, Michiko, are making their first visit to the country, the latest in a series of trips to former battlegrounds. “It is our hope that our visit to Vietnam will contribute to the further development of the mutual understanding […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia and Indonesia announced the full restoration of military ties Sunday as the countries’ leaders held talks following a brief spat over teaching material deemed offensive to Jakarta. Indonesia had reported the suspension of all military cooperation with Australia from December before clarifying that only language training had been put on hold. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said after two hours of talks that he and Indonesian President Joko Widodo had […]
by Frederick ATTEWILL Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s half brother was assassinated with a lethal nerve agent manufactured for chemical warfare and listed by the UN as a weapon of mass destruction, Malaysian police said Friday. Releasing a preliminary toxicology report on Kim Jong-Nam’s murder at Kuala Lumpur airport, police revealed the poison used by the assassins was the odourless, tasteless and highly toxic nerve agent VX. […]
KALIBO, Aklan, 23 February (PIA6) — The ASEAN meetings held in Boracay Island from February 13-21 were successful and peaceful, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP). In a radio interview, Police Regional Office 6 spokesman Police Sr. Supt. Gilbert Gorero said no negative incidents happened during the meetings. Security in the island had been tightened even before the ASEAN meetings for the safety of delegates with forces deployed at airports, jetty ports, highways, billeting […]
(Reuters) — Southeast Asian countries see China’s installation of weapons systems in the South China Sea as very unsettling and want to prevent militarisation and urge dialogue to stop “recent developments” from escalating, the Philippines said on Tuesday (February 21). Foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) were unanimous in their concern about Beijing’s reclamation and militarisation of manmade islands, Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said. Yasay did not […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday (February 21) it opposes actions by other countries under the pretext of freedom of navigation that damage its sovereignty, after a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group began patrols in the contested South China Sea. The U.S. navy said the strike group, including Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, began routine operations in the South China Sea on Saturday (February 18) amid growing tensions with […]
BORACAY, MALAY, AKLAN, February 21 (PIA6) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is more determined to come up with a Code of Conduct (COC) on the South China Sea (SCS), according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). In a press briefing, DFA Undersecretary Enrique Manalo said that member-nations of the ASEAN have been united in coming up with a legally binding COC and the full implementation of the Declaration of Conduct (DOC) […]
