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Bangkok, Thailand | AFP | Monday 4/10/2023 Two more people have been found dead following a weekend shootout in southern Thailand, police said Monday, taking the death toll to six. Police are hunting two gunmen over the bloodshed in the southern province of Surat Thani, while local media reported that a third was among the dead. Authorities found the body of a man in his 20s in a car on Sunday evening, and a woman’s […]
Pingtan, China | AFP | Monday 4/10/2023 by Matthew Walsh, with Jack Moore in Matsu, Taiwan China declared it had “successfully completed” three days of war games around Taiwan on Monday, capping a show of force that saw it simulate targeted strikes and practise a blockade of the self-ruled island. Beijing’s exercises were a response to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week, an encounter it had warned would […]
by Jack MOORE Agence France-Presse TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Retired lecturer Donald Ho was out for his morning stroll in a busy downtown park Sunday, anxious about what Chinese jets and ships holding war games around Taiwan meant for freedom in the self-ruled island. “I am a little worried, I would be lying to you if I say that I am not,” the 73-year-old told AFP in Taipei. “The problem is sovereignty. I want independence […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China is brandishing a wide array of military equipment and weapons as it conducts drills around Taiwan intended to intimidate the self-ruled island. The three-day show of force, which began on Saturday, comes after a visit by Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to the United States sparked China’s ire. Here is a rundown of Beijing’s arsenal: – Aircraft – China has deployed dozens of planes in the airspace around Taiwan over the […]
Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Saturday 4/8/2023 North Korea claimed Saturday it had tested another underwater nuclear attack drone, in its latest response to South Korean and United States military drills, though analysts have questioned whether Pyongyang has such a weapon. In recent weeks, North Korea has tested what state media have described as an underwater nuclear-capable drone, and also carried out the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. “A national defence science research […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s foreign ministry on Thursday condemned the meeting between US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen in California, state media Xinhua reported. Tsai met with a delegation of US politicians from the Republican and Democratic parties during a stopover in the United States on Wednesday after visiting Guatemala and Belize, two of Taipei’s dwindling group of official allies. “In response to the seriously erroneous acts of collusion between […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nearly 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are social recluses, according to a new government survey, with a fifth citing the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reason for their withdrawal. The poll is Japan’s first official comprehensive probe into the prevalence of “hikikomori”, or “shut-ins” — a phenomenon affecting a broad swathe of society, from teens to the elderly. Reasons for retreating from the country’s notoriously conformist and work-focused society range […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron was due in Beijing on Wednesday for a visit in which he hopes to dissuade China from supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while also forging closer ties with a crucial trade partner. Macron will look to stand firm on Ukraine during talks with his counterpart Xi Jinping and offer “another path” from the directly confrontational tone often heard from Washington, an official from his office told reporters […]
China warned on Tuesday that Washington was “endangering regional peace” in a new deal with the Philippines that will see four additional bases be used by US troops, including one near the disputed South China Sea and another not far from Taiwan. “Out of self-interest, the US maintains a zero-sum mentality and continues to strengthen its military deployment in the region,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said. “The result will inevitably be increased military tension and […]
Jakarta, Indonesia | AFP | A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra island in western Indonesia on Monday, shaking homes of panicked residents but causing no casualties or damage. The quake’s epicentre was at sea southwest of Padangsidempuan city in northern Sumatra at a depth of 84 kilometres (52 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. It occurred around 9:59 pm (1459 GMT). The country’s meteorology and geophysics agency said there was no tsunami warning after […]
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake took place 140km North of Palapag, Philippines at 12:54 UTC (7 minutes ago). The depth was 10km and was reported by GFZ. #earthquake #earthquakes #Palapag #Philippines pic.twitter.com/nE9Kb7DZIz — Earthquake Alerts (@QuakeAlerts) April 4, 2023 Manila, Philippines | AFP | Tuesday 4/4/2023 An evacuation order was issued to coastal dwellers on a remote Philippine island Tuesday after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck in the ocean off the archipelago, triggering a tsunami warning. The […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilized in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city’s oldest neighborhoods in black smoke. No casualties have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the Bongo Bazar market and three adjacent commercial precincts had been almost completely gutted. “Some 600 firefighters … are working to bring the […]
