Chinese prime minister Li Qiang warned on Sunday that the rise of ‘unilateralism and protectionism’ could threaten the global economic and trade order, as he reaffirmed Beijing’s ties with Jakarta on Sunday during his visit to Indonesia ahead of a regional summit in Kuala Lumpur.
Hong Kong has said it will open its universities to more international students, highlighting those affected by the US government’s move this week to block Harvard from enrolling foreign nationals.
South Korea has voiced concerns to China over its establishment of a ‘no-sail zone’ in a shared area of the Yellow Sea, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Saturday.
Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos called on Thursday on his entire cabinet to resign after disappointing results for his party at mid-term elections, a move that analysts say is aimed at reviving his waning popularity.
A major accident occurred at a launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer, state media reported Thursday, with leader Kim Jong Un saying the mishap was a ‘criminal act’...
Japan’s farm minister resigned Wednesday after saying he never buys rice because he gets it free, a remark that drew public fury in a country facing soaring food prices...
Taiwan is prepared to talk to China as equals but will continue to build up its defences, the island’s president Lai Ching-te said Tuesday as he marked his first year in office.
Cambodian students wearing all black and wielding bamboo clubs and wooden rifles staged a dramatic re-enactment on Tuesday of a genocide that killed two million people in the 1970s.
South Korea’s ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol left his conservative party on Saturday as it gears up for snap elections triggered by his impeachment over a bid to impose martial law.
China said Thursday it was ready to ‘expand practical cooperation’ with the Russian army, after president Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Moscow for a lavish World War II Victory Day parade.
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, detained at the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, regained the mayorship of family stronghold Davao city in a landslide vote on Monday, an initial tally showed.
Taiwan conducted Monday its first live-firing of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems purchased from the United States, as the self-ruled island upgrades its capabilities to repel a potential Chinese attack.
Myanmar’s junta chief met China’s president for the first time since seizing power, state media reported Saturday, the highest-level meeting with a key ally for the internationally sanctioned military leader.
Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad is giving president Donald Trump three months before his fellow Americans force him to rethink his stringent global tariff strategy, accusing the US leader of ‘living in an old world’.
The United States on Wednesday denounced Russia for ‘cynically obstructing’ the monitoring of North Korea’s compliance with UN sanctions, saying Moscow was trying to dodge criticism for using Pyongyang’s weapons in its war with Ukraine.
