HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific Airways on Friday (Sep 23) said it plans to add more than 200 pairs of passenger flights in October to both regional and long-haul destinations. The announcement came after Hong Kong government said to scrap its controversial COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from SepContinue Reading
TAIPEI: The Chinese blockade of Taiwan or the seizure of an offshore isle would be considered a good act of war and Taiwan may not surrender, an older Taiwanese security formal told Reuters making use of unusually strong and direct language. While Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and others in herContinue Reading
KATHMANDU: Twenty-three foreign visitors landed in Bhutan on Friday (Sep 23), the first to turn up as the Himalayan empire reopened its edges after more than two years following the COVID-19 pandemic, with officials seeking to tourism to help revive the local economy. Wedged between China and India, the countryContinue Reading
SYDNEY: Australia is aiming for a stable relationship with China despite differences specifically on trade, Australia’s foreign minister said, as she called on China to utilize its influence as a great power to help end the war in Ukraine . Australia’s ties with its largest trading partner are at aContinue Reading
PHNOM PENH: A lot more than 20 Chinese nationals are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Cambodia, an official said upon Friday (Sep 23). The particular boat carrying 41 Chinese people had difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, provincial spokesman Kheang Phearom told AFP, in support ofContinue Reading
PHNOM PENH: One person died and more than 20 are missing at sea after a boat carrying Chinese nationals sank off the coast of Cambodia, an official said Friday (Sep 23). The boat with 41 Chinese people on board got into difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, Preah Sihanouk provincial spokesman Kheang PhearomContinue Reading
Viral on the web essays slamming the attack as representational of the country’s bigger problem of gender-based violence were censored. The particular court said a police investigation following the attack found that will Chen had been the ringleader of a bunch that “menaced the particular public”, and that he previouslyContinue Reading
SEOUL: South Korea’s president has denied insulting key security ally the United States, claiming to own been mistranslated, prompting further domestic incredulity on Friday (Sep 23). Yoon Suk-yeol was overheard on a hot mic and seen on camera seemingly insulting US lawmakers shortly after briefly meeting with US President JoeContinue Reading
SEOUL: Southern Korea’s central financial institution said on Friday (Sep 23) it had been setting up a currency exchange arrangement with the National Pension Service to divert some of the fund’s foreign currency needs, within a bid to put the floor under the rapidly weakening won. The Bank of KoreaContinue Reading
The visit is the first to South Korea by an American aircraft carrier since 2018. That year, the allies scaled back many of their joint military activities amid diplomatic efforts to engage with North Korea, but those talks have since stalled, and Pyongyang this month unveiled an updated law codifyingContinue Reading