PRAGUE: Czech president-elect Petr Pavel on Monday (Jan 30) vowed to boost his country’s ties with Taiwan after holding a phone call with the island’s president and foreign minister. President Tsai Ing-wen congratulated Pavel on his win in Saturday’s presidential run-off over populist billionaire Andrej Babis. “I thanked her forContinue Reading
The training was organised by the Japanese government, in conjunction with the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC). Oum Phumro, deputy director of the centre, said the training would be ongoing. “In Cambodia, we train them for one week and then we continue training them via online and preparing procedures forContinue Reading
Prigozhin – who also controls the notorious St Petersburg internet “troll farm” that allegedly disrupted the 2016 US election – has been a vocal critic of the Russian defense establishment’s handling of the war in Ukraine. His mercenary-like army has been carrying out operations, ostensibly private but implicitly approved byContinue Reading
BioNTech said on Thursday (Dec 22) it had shipped 11,500 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, marking the first foreign coronavirus vaccines to be sent to the country. BioNTech said the delivery, which landed in China on Wednesday, contained both the originalContinue Reading
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council adopted its first resolution on Myanmar in 74 years on Wednesday (Dec 21) to demand an end to violence and urge the military junta to release all political prisoners, including ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar has been in crisis since the armyContinue Reading
The shipment of the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines comes after China agreed to allow German nationals in the country to get the shot.Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS: The United States accused Russia and China on Friday (Nov 4) of providing “blanket protection” to North Korea from further UN Security Council action and said the pair had “bent over backwards” to justify Pyongyang’s ballistic missile launches. The United States, Britain, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway requestedContinue Reading
BERLIN: Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday (Nov 4) condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force. In the first visit by a G7 leader to China sinceContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The United States has information that indicates North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a “significant” number of artillery shells for its war in Ukraine, White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby said on Wednesday (Nov 2). Kirby told a virtual briefing that North Korea was attempting to obscureContinue Reading
TAIPEI: United States Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr will visit Taiwan this week, the de facto US embassy in Taiwan said on Wednesday (Nov 2), the latest senior official from the country to visit the island. Carr will meet with “Taiwan interlocutors” to discuss issues including telecommunications and cybersecurity fromContinue Reading