MANILA – Growing concerns over China’s military power are resetting geopolitical alignments across the Indo-Pacific in what some see as the dawning of a New Cold War. At once, two different trilateral alliances are emerging, both build around America’s “integrated deterrence” strategy amid intensified fears of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in the near-term future. […]Continue Reading
TOKYO: Japan announced the official start of Tokyo’s cherry blossom season on Tuesday (Mar 14), 10 days earlier than usual and tied with a record early start seen only twice before. In past years the country’s meteorologists have linked the increasingly early blooms to climate change, and temperatures in TokyoContinue Reading
PRACHIN BURI: A bulky tube containing radioactive caesium-137, a highly hazardous isotope, is reported missing from the National Power Plant 5A Company facility in Si Maha Phot district of Prachin Buri, police said.Continue Reading
The senator and YouTube blogger has not attended parliament even once since he was elected.Continue Reading
“Because it is lightweight and portable, it is like a big grenade that can fly,” said Chi Li-pin, head of NCSIST’s Aeronautical Systems Research division. “It is effective in attacking targets near our shores,” he added, noting its maximum flying distance is 10km. Taiwan is also developing its next generationContinue Reading
Critics of the military say there is strong evidence that the army has repeatedly carried out war crimes since seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Opposition to military rule has turned into what some UN experts have described as a civil war.Continue Reading
Ken Noguchi, who has scaled the highest peaks of all seven continents, was in the Himalayas in 2015 when a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck.Continue Reading
Fitch Rating’s Janice Chong discusses the parts of the Chinese economy that are most likely to rebound as the country reopens and addresses the impact on its property market.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Police arrested 13 people suspected of being involved in a recent spate of rental scams, with proceeds amounting to more than S$1.3 million. The police said on Tuesday (Mar 14) that the nine men and four women, aged between 18 and 56, were nabbed during a four-day island-wide enforcement operation thatContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A 33-year-old driver was arrested on Monday (Mar 13) for careless driving causing death after a two-year-old girl was killed in a traffic accident in Woodlands. The police said they were alerted to an accident involving a van and three pedestrians at Block 326 Woodlands Street 32 on MarContinue Reading