JAKARTA: An explosion at a refinery owned by a Pertamina PT unit in western Indonesia injured nine people, the state energy firm said on Sunday (Apr 2), adding to two dozen deaths from two other fires over the past month. The explosion late on Saturday in a gas compressor causedContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Satellite images show a high level of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear site, a US think tank reported on Saturday (Apr 1) after the North Korean leader ordered an increase in production of bomb fuel to expand the country’s nuclear arsenal. The Washington-based 38 North North Korea monitoringContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Ten Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, normally an unofficial barrier between the two sides, Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Saturday (Apr 1), as Beijing continues its military activities near the island. Nine Chinese fighter jets and one military drone crossed the median line inContinue Reading
FORT MAGSAYSAY, Philippines: Philippine troops staged live-fire exercises with their US counterparts in the Southeast Asian country’s largest military camp as part of army-to-army drills aimed at enhancing Manila’s defence capabilities against external threats. The drills come after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s decision in February to expand the United States’Continue Reading
National Vietnam War Veterans Day, which falls on Mar 29 every year, honours the soldiers who served in one of the longest wars in American history, and the tens of thousands who lost their lives.Continue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens’ human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea, said in a report on Thursday (Mar 30). South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, based the 450-page report on testimony collectedContinue Reading
“We are seriously concerned that the exclusion of the NLD from the political process will make it even more difficult to improve the situation,” Japan’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “Japan strongly urges Myanmar to immediately release NLD officials, including Suu Kyi, and to show a path toward aContinue Reading
The United States, Britain, Japan and Australia on Wednesday (Mar 29) expressed their concern over the dissolution of Myanmar’s former ruling party and urged a more inclusive process to return the country to democracy. Myanmar’s ruling junta on Tuesday disbanded Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) andContinue Reading
“We are seriously concerned that the exclusion of the NLD from the political process will make it even more difficult to improve the situation,” Japan’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “Japan strongly urges Myanmar to immediately release NLD officials, including Suu Kyi, and to show a path toward aContinue Reading
BEIJING: China threatened to retaliate on Wednesday (Mar 29) if United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her planned transit of the US next month, saying that any such move would be a “provocation”. China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, hasContinue Reading