TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan on Sunday (Aug 7) said flights through its airspace had gradually resumed from about noon as most notifications for Chinese military drills near the island were “no longer in effect”. The Transport Ministry said in a statement, however, that Taiwan would continue to direct flights and ships away from a Chinese military […]
TAIPEI/BEIJING (BLOOMBERG, AFP, REUTERS) – China’s aircraft and warships rehearsed an attack on Taiwan on Saturday (Aug 6), island officials said, as Chinese forces appeared to be getting close to Taiwan’s shores. China doubled down on the exercises, held in retaliation for a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that also saw […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Macau’s government said on Friday it would resume ferry services with the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Aug 8, as authorities try to unwind stringent Covid-19 restrictions in the world’s biggest gambling hub. The announcement comes after the city government said that people could enter the neighbouring mainland Chinese city […]
BEIJING – The ongoing military drills around Taiwan are aimed at rehearsing a possible future invasion of the self-ruled island, Chinese military observers and state media have said. The drills, which have for the first time involved firing ballistic missiles directly over the island, are also a thinly veiled threat against those pushing for formal […]
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 […]
PHNOM PENH (REUTERS, AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has no plans to meet his Chinese or Russian counterparts while in Cambodia for an Asean security meeting, said a senior State Department official on Wednesday (Aug 3). Mr Blinken had discussed the possibility of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan with his […]
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HONG KONG (REUTERS) – As US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi headed to Taipei on Tuesday (Aug 2) amid intensifying warnings from China, four US warships, including an aircraft carrier, were positioned in waters east of the island on “routine” deployments. The carrier USS Ronald Reagan had transited the South China Sea and was […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Several Chinese warplanes flew close to the median line of the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday (Aug 2) morning, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters, as tensions mounted on news that US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was set to visit the island. The source said several Chinese warships […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Remnants from a massive Chinese rocket booster crashed back to Earth on Saturday (July 30) over the Indian Ocean, space officials from the US and China confirmed. It remains unclear what path the debris from the booster might take, US Space Command said on Twitter on Saturday, referring questions to the […]
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 […]
BEIJING (XINHUA) – Mr Xavier Garnier, 48, who comes from France, said he would never forget his traditional Chinese wedding at a historic village in China. As fireworks illuminated the sky, Mr Garnier exchanged wedding vows with his Chinese bride Zhao Lixin at a well-decorated farmhouse by the Mihe river in Ms Zhao’s hometown of […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Indian and Chinese foreign ministers were to attend a regional conference in Uzbekistan on Friday (July 29), a day after New Delhi expressed concern over a Chinese military ship’s planned visit to a strategic port in India’s southern neighbour Sri Lanka. New Delhi worries that the Chinese-built and leased Hambantota port will […]
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – Debris from a Chinese rocket is set to crash to Earth some time in the next few days, with the potential for wreckage to land across a wide swathe of the globe. Part of a Long March 5B rocket China launched on Sunday (July 24) will make an uncontrolled re-entry around July 31, […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Roads emptied and people were ordered to stay indoors in parts of Taiwan, including its capital Taipei, on Monday (July 25) for an air-raid exercise as the island steps up preparations in the event of a Chinese attack. Sirens sounded at 1.30pm for the mandatory street evacuation drills, which effectively shut towns […]
BEIJING – China has been tightening its hold on netizens, with Chinese social media giants publishing their users’ locations and banning the use of similar-sounding words meant to skirt censorship. Microblogging platform Weibo said on July 13 that it will step up efforts to clean up the use of homophones that are meant to “spread […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – The extinction of the Chinese Paddlefish and wild Yangtze Sturgeon, declared by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), unleashed a torrent of comments on China’s social media platforms on Friday (July 22) urging more environmental protection. The IUCN’s latest list of threatened species, published on its website on Thursday, […]
BEIJING – Growing anti-Western nationalism has seen China downgrade the learning and official use of English, but that has not suppressed demand among the Chinese for ways to master the language. Students and working adults have turned increasingly to live streams, drama classes and forming study sessions.
COLOMBO (REUTERS) – Sri Lanka is continuing negotiations with China for as much as US$4 billion (S$5.62 billion) in aid and is confident Beijing will agree “at some point”, Bloomberg News reported on Friday (July 15), citing Sri Lanka’s ambassador to China. Colombo is asking China for a loan of U$1 billion to repay an […]