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by Martin ABBUGAO Annabel SYMINGTON VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) — Southeast Asian nations were deadlocked Sunday about how to confront China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea as pressure from Beijing again drove a wedge between countries on the region’s toughest security challenge. Their gathering in the Laos capital is the first time regional players — including China and the United States — have met en masse since a UN-backed tribunal delivered a hammer blow […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has completed production of the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, state media has said, the latest effort in the country’s program to wean itself off dependence on foreign aviation firms. The state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) unveiled the first of the new planes, dubbed the AG600, Saturday in the southern port city of Zhuhai, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The aircraft, which has a maximum range of 4,500 […]
by Martin ABBUGAO Jerome TAYLOR VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) — Southeast Asian nations are in unparalleled disarray over Beijing’s sabre-rattling in the South China Sea, analysts and insiders say, with the fractures set to deepen as staunch China ally Laos hosts top regional diplomats this weekend. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are among the delegates due to fly in from Sunday for two days of meetings in Vientiane, the […]
China has offered its support to the Philippine’s controversial drug crackdown pushed by new President Rodrigo Duterte, which has been slammed by rights groups for encouraging extrajudicial killings and vigilante justice. “China fully understands that the Philippine government under the leadership of Rodrigo Duterte has taken it as a top priority in cracking down (on) drug-related crimes,” China’s embassy in Manila said in a statement issued Tuesday. “China has expressed explicitly to the new administration […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – Jakarta rejected Thursday the findings of an international panel of judges that declared Indonesia had committed crimes against humanity in anti-communist killings during the 1960s in which it claimed the US, Britain and Australia were complicit. At least 500,000 people died in the months-long purge across the Southeast Asian archipelago that started after General Suharto put down a coup blamed on the communists on October 1, 1965. Suharto took power on […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Torrential rain lashing northern China in recent days has left nearly 100 people dead or missing, official figures showed. At least 24 people in the provinces of Hebei, which surrounds Beijing, Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi have been confirmed dead in a rainstorm that has been pounding the region since Monday, according to figures from the civil affairs ministry. Hebei was the worst hit, with 14 dead and 72 missing, it said […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Several thousand South Koreans staged an angry protest Thursday against the planned deployment of a US anti-missile system near their hometown, but President Park Geun-Hye insisted the move was a national security imperative. South Korea’s defense ministry announced last week the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, will be installed in Seongju — a rural county about 200 kilometers (135 miles) southeast of Seoul — by the end […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Thursday warned the Donald Trump-fronted US Republican Party against making “groundless accusations” after it accused Beijing of cultural genocide and said its economy was based on piracy. The GOP said in its 2016 platform that Beijing made “a preposterous claim to the entire South China Sea”, adding that “cultural genocide continues” in the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang. “The currency is manipulated, our technology is stolen and intellectual property […]
Caesar Vallejos EBC Correspondent With the theme “Empowering Sustainable Convergence”, the ASEAN Corporate Sustainability Summit and Awards (ACSSA) held at the Manila Marriott Grand Ballroom Hotel last July 21, 2016 urged industry leaders, sustainability practitioners, civil society partners, regional regulators, public sector leaders and aid agencies to converge and become more involved in sustainable development. One of the event’s speakers, David Young, Chief Operations Officer of impact investing technology company ADEC Innovations, focused on the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Thursday (July 21) the move to deploy a THAAD missile defense system was “inevitable” because of a growing threat from North Korea and that division in the South over its deployment is what Pyongyang seeks. North Korea’s launch of three ballistic missiles on Tuesday (July 19) was the latest evidence that the anti-missile system is needed, Park said at a National Security Council […]
US and Australian troops plan to step up training so they are “fully prepared” to answer challenges in the Pacific, US Vice President Joe Biden says amid rising tensions over Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea.
by Stuart WILLIAMS with Fulya OZERKAN and Frank ZELLER in Istanbul ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday declared a three-month state of emergency, vowing to hunt down the “terrorist” group behind last week’s bloody coup attempt. He has accused followers of his arch-enemy, US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, of being behind the coup, which has led to a wave of some 50,000 arrests and sackings of suspected conspirators. The state of […]
