MANILA: According to the Chinese government’s embassy in the Philippines, the government does not handle any type of cyberattacks and will not permit any nation or person to carry out for illegal actions using Chinese facilities. It provided the assurances after the Philippines announced on Monday ( Feb5 ) thatContinue Reading
SYDNEY: Following several years of tense relations between Beijing and Canberra, a Beijing court on Monday ( Feb) granted Australian writer Yang Hengjun espionage charges and suspended his death sentence. Yang’s family and supporters were surprised by the verdict, which was delivered five years after he was imprisoned in ChinaContinue Reading
According to Seoul’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration ( DAPA ), South Korea and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding on February 5 in an effort to increase defense cooperation. Seoul intends to expand its arms sales in the area. In order to maintain their participation in defense, the twoContinue Reading
MANILA: On Monday ( Feb 5 ) the defense minister of the Philippines vowed to” strictly enforce” the nation’s sovereignty, joining the chorus of security officials pledging to defend the country in response to secessionist threats made by former president Rodrigo Duterte. As his empire with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.Continue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s leaking of a secret diplomatic cable hurt the South Asian nation economically, politically and diplomatically, said a detailed court judgment issued on Thursday (Feb 1) after a guilty verdict that sentenced him to 10 years in jail. The special court convicted Khan onContinue Reading
MOSCOW: A North Korean delegation will visit the lower house of Russia’s parliament on Feb 13, state news agency RIA quoted a deputy from the opposition Communist Party as saying on Thursday. Communist lawmaker Kazbek Taysaev also said that a Russian parliamentary delegation planned to travel to North Korea inContinue Reading
About 2.3 million people have been displaced, according to the United Nations, while efforts by Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbours to initiate dialogue have seen no progress, with the junta refusing to negotiate with what it calls “terrorists”. The extension of emergency rule came on the eve of the third anniversaryContinue Reading
BEIJING: China and Nauru formally re-established diplomatic relations on Wednesday (Jan 24), after the tiny South Pacific nation cut ties with Taiwan. Officials from the two countries held a signing ceremony in Beijing, state news agency Xinhua said. In a post-election blow to Taiwan, Nauru unexpectedly announced last Monday that itContinue Reading
BUDAPEST: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday (Jan 23) he had invited his Swedish counterpart to visit and negotiate his country joining the NATO military alliance, a process that Hungary and Türkiye have delayed. Asked about the invitation, a spokesperson for Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said inContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s top court has pledged to “deepen judicial disclosure” after its plan to curtail access to court decisions faced unusual public criticism from lawyers and legal experts. The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) announced in December it would create a new database of over 2,000 cases accessible to scholars, lawyersContinue Reading