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HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam has delivered a sharp rebuke to China over military drills in the South China Sea, the second such warning in a week as tensions rise between the countries over the disputed waterway. China and Vietnam have long traded barbs over the strategic and resource-rich South China Sea, which Beijing claims most of. Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia also have competing claims in the sea. Tensions have flared in recent […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) — Taiwan has appointed the Mayor of Tainan William Lai as its new premier President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday (September 5), as she moved to shore up declining public support. A reshuffle to replace the premier had been anticipated for months as Tsai’s approval ratings dropped below 30 percent by August, a private foundation survey showed, from nearly 70 percent soon after her 2016 inauguration. Lai’s appointment comes a day after the […]
by Carole Landry with Hwang Sunghee in Seoul Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) The US has accused North Korea of “begging for war” and pushed for the “strongest possible measures” on Pyongyang following its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. As world powers scramble to react to the latest grave step in the North’s rogue weapons program, South Korea launched major live-fire naval drills to warn its isolated neighbour against any […]
XIAMEN, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the two countries should pursue “healthy, stable bilateral ties”, state media reported Tuesday in the wake of a protracted border standoff. The exchange, mentioned in a brief dispatch by China’s official Xinhua news agency, apparently occurred on the sidelines of the just-concluded summit of BRICS emerging economies hosted by China. © Agence France-Presse
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japan Airlines flight bound for New York made an emergency landing at a Tokyo airport Tuesday due to engine trouble apparently caused by a bird strike, the company said. The Boeing 777 plane carrying 233 passengers and 15 crew members took off from Tokyo’s Haneda airport at 11:00 am (0200 GMT) but returned to land an hour later. Footage shown by public broadcaster NHK showed the plane safely landing at […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s navy held major live-fire drills Tuesday to warn the North against any provocations at sea, it said, two days after Pyongyang’s biggest nuclear test to date. The drills, conducted in the East Sea (Sea of Japan), involved the 2,500-ton frigate Gangwon, a 1,000-ton patrol ship and 400-ton guided-missile vessels, among others, the Navy said in a statement. “If the enemy launches a provocation above water or under water, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump on Monday told his South Korean counterpart Washington was willing to approve arms sales worth “many billions of dollars” to Seoul following Pyongyang’s test of what it said was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. President Trump “provided his conceptual approval for the purchase of many billions of dollars’ worth of military weapons and equipment from the US by South Korea,” said the White House, without providing […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said on Monday it had lodged an official protest with its ally North Korea following Pyongyang’s largest-ever nuclear weapons test. The massive explosion, which Pyongyang claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, has put the region on edge and raised questions about how Beijing will respond to its neighbor’s latest provocation. China “launched stern representations with the person in charge of the DPRK embassy in China”, foreign ministry spokesman Geng […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s Premier Lin Chuan resigned on Monday in a move aimed at reviving dwindling public support for the government of President Tsai Ing-wen. Tsai’s office announced in a statement that Lin offered his resignation on Sunday, saying that he had “accomplished his periodic tasks,” and it was approved by the president. Speculation had been rife that Lin would be replaced. The government’s popularity has been hit by a series of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – South Korea and the United States will deploy more anti-missile defenses in response to Sunday’s nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday. The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system already installed in the South has infuriated China, but the ministry said in a statement that the “Four remaining launchers will soon be temporarily deployed through consultations between South Korea and the US to counter growing nuclear and […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Japan and China said Monday they had not yet detected any atmospheric radiation from North Korea’s nuclear test, amid fears of a leak from a “cave in” during the underground blast. Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters there was “nothing special detected from monitoring posts across the country,” nor from air samples taken by the Air Self-Defense Force after Sunday’s blast. China’s environment ministry said Monday that radiation levels […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea’s nuclear test on Sunday had an estimated strength of 50 kilotons, defense ministry officials told a parliamentary briefing on Monday. That would make it five times the size of the North’s previous test in September last year, and more than three times bigger than the US device that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. (Agence France-Presse)
