SEOUL: North Korea sent around 600 balloons carrying trash into South Korea overnight, Seoul said on Sunday ( Jun 2 ), in Pyongyang’s latest move to rile its rival neighbour. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, balloons carrying wastes like cigarette butts, material, paper waste, and vinyl wereContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: The prospect of peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan is being increasingly “eroded” by Taiwanese separatists and external forces, Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun said on Sunday ( Jun 2 ), promising to ensure independence never happens. China holds Taiwan, which is politically governed, as its own territory, despite the government’sContinue Reading
” LOWER EXPECTATIONS” There is now a force to replace roles that “dovetail with important policy priorities” or where skills shortages exist, said Tay, like business improving and technological development. With employment opportunities drying up for those holding anthropology, media and law degrees, she said, some kind of “government- sponsoredContinue Reading
However, South Korean activists continued to resist, and in the same time, Pyongyang formally cut off all formal military and political communication channels and blew up an inter-Korean contact office on its side of the border while dispelling the anti-north leaflets. The North Korean Constitutional Court last month upheld theContinue Reading
SEARCH: South Korea announced on Thursday ( May 30 ) that its medical schools would accept almost 1,500 more students for the year as a result of a national admissions increase that has caused trainee doctors to go on strike. The government claimed the increase is necessary to address aContinue Reading
Euro, US CRITICISM Chow” regularly published posts with subversive intention on social media, attempting to incite hatred of the people toward the central authorities and the Hong Kong government,” according to the Chinese foreign ministry office on Thursday. The spokesperson accused unknown “external forces” of “making all kinds of effortsContinue Reading
Lin cited additional initiatives China has been taking, such as sending coast guard ships to Taiwan’s west coast during the exercises last week and opening new air routes close to Taiwan-controlled islands next to the Taiwanese coast. He claimed that” the Chinese communists are reviving the status quo.” ” TheyContinue Reading
” Display SUPPORT” The 47 conspired to sabotage state power, according to the prosecution’s allegation that they planned to form a majority in the legislature by holding illegal primary elections. They would reject state budgets and compel the town’s chief to comply with five important demands made by protesters inContinue Reading
On Wednesday, Pyongyang sent bubbles full of trash, toilet paper and suspected dog faeces into the South, with Seoul’s defense pounding Pyongyang for their “low group” activities. The North had earlier warned over the weekend that it would “drain border regions of wastepaper and trash” to chastise Seoul. Kim YoContinue Reading
Taiwan’s Cabinet will accept and return policy that the opposition approved on Tuesday ( May 28 ) regarding parliamentary reforms that have sparked protests and accusations of Chinese intervention. In light of concerns that China, which views Taiwan as its own country, is trying to influence the region’s politicians andContinue Reading