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(Reuters) — Disagreement between the United States and China over how to address rival claims in the South China Sea marred a gathering of Southeast Asian defence officials on Wednesday (November 4), with a joint statement scrapped after ministers failed to agree on its wording. Malaysian Minister of Defence Hishammuddin Hussein said during a news conference that a consensus had not been reached. “We couldn’t reach a consensus on the joint declaration and instead […]
Models strutted down a floating runway in Paris Thursday (October 29) as fashion and culture intersected onboard a glass boat cruising down the River Seine . Spectators were treated to the unique experience of seeing models walk in beautiful dresses whilst Paris’s famous sites drifted past above their heads. The show featured designers from six different continents and was organised by Vietnamese fashion show producer Jessica Minh Anh, who also modelled in the show. Minh […]
(Eagle News) — Protesters, composed mostly of expelled members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in California, numbering to about 60, staged a rally on Oct. 31 in Anaheim, California to disturb the holding of scheduled family fun day activities of the INC that day. The rally was also timed to coincide with the 60th birthday of INC executive minister Eduardo V. Manalo. Wearing masks and holding placards demanding reforms in the INC, the former INC […]
The Philippines is going to present the Washington Treat of 1900 to the international arbitral tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands. Said treaty stipulates that the Spratlys Island is part of the Philippine territory. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Flags were flying at half-mast on official buildings in Moscow on Sunday (November 1) as Russia mourned the Egypt plane crash victims. The Russian airliner, with 224 on board, crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Saturday (October 31) shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all occupants. Muscovites flocked to Sunday church services and lit candles, as priests remembered the victims in prayer. “What can I say? It is […]
The attorney representing the Philippines in a dispute with China over territorial claims to the South China Sea on Friday (October 30) said a Hague court’s decision to hear the case would test the rule of law in international maritime cases. “I think that this a real test of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the rules of international law, which are embodied therein. Either the convention is a relevant, […]
(Reuters) — The wreckage of a Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers that crashed in Egypt killing all on board lay scattered along the Sinai peninsula’s mountainous dry landscapes on Saturday (October 31). The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said. A militant group affiliated […]
(Reuters) — A candle-lit memorial is set up outside a Bucharest nightclub on Saturday (October 31) and Romania’s government declared a three-day national mourning, after an overnight fire killed 27 people and injured 184 during a rock concert that featured fireworks used indoors. In one of the capital’s worst disasters in decades, up to 500 people, mostly young adults, stampeded for the only available exit as the club in the basement of a Communist-era sport-shoe factory […]
OCTOBER 30 — Indonesia has declared a state of emergency due to thick haze smoldering across the country for weeks, spreading haze drifting across much of Southeast Asia. The last time the country declared a national emergency was when the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 100,000 people in 2004.
China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday (October 29), a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy. The policy is a major liberalization of the country’s family planning restrictions, already eased in late 2013 when Beijing said it would allow more families to have two children providing the parents met certain conditions. […]
The regional information minister of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtukhwa (KPK) province said on Tuesday (October 27) that at least 200 people had been killed and more than 2,000 injured in an earthquake which hit remote mountainous regions of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday (October 26). Information Minister Shah Farman was talking to reporters late on Tuesday outside the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, where dozens of people injured in the quake are being treated. “Tentatively, […]
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed close to one of China’s man-made islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday (October 27), drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest. The USS Lassen’s patrol was the most significant U.S. challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China claims around artificial islands it has built up in the Spratly archipelago as Beijing […]
