PINGTUNG (AFP, REUTERS) – Taiwan’s military held a live-fire artillery drill on Tuesday (Aug 9) simulating a defence of the island against an attack after days of massive Chinese military exercises, an AFP journalist at the site of the exercise said. China launched its largest-ever war games around Taiwan last week in a furious response to […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – China’s military announced fresh military drills on Monday (Aug 8) in the seas and airspace around Taiwan – a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week’s visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China’s Eastern Theatre Command said it would conduct joint drills focusing on […]
PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday (Aug 7) cancelled a controversial satellite-city development around a wildlife sanctuary and zoo near the capital following growing online appeals to halt the project. Conservationists and locals began voicing their concerns and objections when the development plan around the Phnom Tamao zoo and wildlife […]
BEIJING (AFP, REUTERS) – China has doubled down on its retaliation for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, announcing a suspension of cooperation with Washington on key issues as it was set on Saturday (Aug 6) to continue massive military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. Relations between the two superpowers have nosedived in […]
TAIPEI (AFP, REUTERS) – About 10 Chinese navy ships and 20 military aircraft briefly crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Friday morning (Aug 5), a Taiwan source briefed on the matter told Reuters. Around 10 Chinese navy ships crossed the median line and remained in the area on Friday morning, and about 20 Chinese […]
PINGTAN, FUJIAN (AFP) – China was set to press ahead on Friday (Aug 5) with its largest-ever military exercises encircling Taiwan despite firm statements of condemnation by the United States, Japan and the European Union. Beijing’s decision to fire ballistic missiles and deploy fighter jets around Taiwan saw Washington lambast what it said was a […]
TOKYO – China on Thursday (Aug 4) fired at least 11 ballistic missiles around Taiwan in the course of unprecedented live-firing exercises following the visit of United States Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said its missiles “all precisely hit their targets”, even as Japan said five of them had landed […]
BEIJING – As China on Thursday (Aug 4) began its largest-scale military exercises around Taiwan in response to United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, there were concerns that any miscalculation could quickly escalate, and that the operations could forever change the dynamics in the area. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has […]
BEIJING (AFP) – China is due on Thursday (Aug 4) to kick off its largest-ever military exercises encircling Taiwan, in a show of force straddling vital international shipping lanes following a visit to the self-ruled island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Mrs Pelosi left Taiwan Wednesday after a less than 24-hour visit that defied […]
BEIJING (AFP) – China insisted on Wednesday (Aug 3) that its military exercises around the Taiwan Strait were “necessary and just” in the wake of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island. “The Chinese military’s conducting of military exercises in the sea near China’s Taiwan are a necessary and just measure to […]
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China declared it would conduct missile tests and military drills around Taiwan shortly after US House speaker Nancy Pelosi defied Beijing on Tuesday (Aug 2) by landing on the island. The People’s Liberation Army said it would stage a series of military drills including “long-range live firing in the Taiwan Strait” from […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States has seen no evidence of looming Chinese military activity against Taiwan, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Friday (July 29) when asked about a possible visit to the island by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “(We’ve) seen no physical, tangible indications of anything untoward […]
BANGALORE – As the sea of protesters at the Galle Face shoreline in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo moved in waves towards the President’s house at around noon on Saturday (July 9), Mr Kolin Peter felt his eyes burning. “The army had fired tear gas at us. There were 500-600 young people all around me, all […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China’s military recently held multi-unit joint combat readiness exercises, patrols and combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan, the Eastern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said in a statement on Friday (July 8). The exercises were organised in response to “collusion and provocations” by the United States […]
European lawmakers gather to vote at the European Parliament on July 6, 2022 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS / AP PHOTO) BRUSSELS – Members of the European Parliament on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution to add the right to abortion to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, condemning the recent US Supreme […]
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