Taiwan and the US plan to jointly manufacture weapons to firm up Taipei’s defenses against a possible China invasion, a move that could spike already high and rising tensions around the self-governing island. Last week, Nikkei reported that initial discussions have commenced on joint US-Taiwan weapons production, an arrangement that would see US defense companies […]Continue Reading
MANILA: A Korean Air plane slid off the runway while landing at Cebu international airport in the Philippines, causing slight injuries and shutting down the country’s second busiest airport, authorities said Monday (Oct 24). All 173 passengers and crew of Korean Air flight KE631 from Incheon were evacuated safely afterContinue Reading
LOCAL INITIATIVES VITAL While the impact of hate speech online has already been documented in several Asian countries in recent years, analysts say that tech firms have not ramped up resources to improve content moderation, particularly in local languages. United Nations rights investigators said in 2018 that the use ofContinue Reading
YANGON: A group who used sex dolls to carry out “ritual incantations” in the car park of Myanmar’s holiest site will be prosecuted by the religious affairs ministry, state media said Monday (Oct 24). Around eight people attempted to bring two “lady dolls” into the towering, gold-plated Shwedagon pagoda inContinue Reading
DOHA: Security forces in Qatar arbitrarily arrested and abused LGBT Qataris as recently as last month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday (Oct 24), in the run-up to hosting football’s World Cup which has put a spotlight on human rights issues in the Gulf Arab state. Homosexuality is illegalContinue Reading
On Monday, the country announced economic growth figures, after they were postponed last week.Continue Reading
PHUKET: A three-day search found no sign of a Russian woman missing from a beach since Oct 20 and she is believed to have drowned.Continue Reading
PHUKET: A three-day search found no sign of a Russian woman missing from a beach since Oct 20 and she is believed to have drowned.Continue Reading
ABANDONING THE SEA At Tasikagung fishing port in Rembang regency, fisherman Abdi said a decade ago he could catch 10 tons of fish in three days at sea. To bring in the same harvest today, he estimates he would need to be out for 15 days. “And only if theContinue Reading
The professional China commentariat and its echo chamber in the Western media were blindsided by the appointment of Shanghai party head Li Qiang as the country’s premier, the number two position to Xi Jinping. Li is a tech-savvy supporter of high-tech entrepreneurship who believes that China’s future lies in the digital economy. Xi, the Western […]Continue Reading