North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has received a car from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin as a gift “for his personal use”, official media reported on Tuesday, in what could be a violation of U.N. ban that Moscow had agreed to adopt against Pyongyang. The two countries have forged closer ties since Kim and Putin […]
Read MoreJustin McCurry At the height of the Covid pandemic, the restaurateurs and shopkeepers of Tsukiji market in Tokyo must have dreamed of days like these. Columns of smartphone-wielding visitors shuffle along the narrow streets, pausing to inspect hand-forged kitchen knives and tsukemono pickles, and to sip gratis samples of green tea. Restaurants tempt the lunchtime […]
Read MoreMillions of dollars in sales of North Korean false eyelashes – marketed in beauty stores around the world as “made in China” – helped drive a recovery in the secretive state’s exports last year. The processing and packaging of North Korean false eyelashes – openly conducted in neighbouring China, the country’s largest trading partner – […]
Read MoreOil prices dipped on Monday in choppy trade as China’s ailing property sector sparked demand worries, while rising tensions over the weekend in the Middle East intensified oil supply concerns. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down62 cents to $82.93 a barrel by 1430 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures CLc1were down59 cents to […]
Read MoreNorth Korea fired several cruise missiles into waters off its west coast on Tuesday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a string of weapons tests carried out by Pyongyang so far this year. South Korea’s military “detected several unknown cruise missiles launched into the West Sea of North Korea around 07:00 (2200 GMT)” Seoul’s Joint […]
Read MoreEmbattled Chinese development company, Evergrande, has been ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court after an 18-month long hearing. Evergrande, which holds the ignominious title of the world’s most indebted property developer with about $300bn in liabilities, failed to convince the court that it had a viable restructuring plan, after having been given seven […]
Read MoreNorth Korea fired several cruise missiles on Sunday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state. The launch comes just days after Pyongyang fired multiple cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea, which it said was a first test of a new generation of strategic cruise missiles. Pyongyang has […]
Read MoreJapan said it is joining other countries in suspending funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees following Israeli charges that some UNRWA staff took part in Hamas’s October 7 attack. The agency has fired several staff over Israel’s accusations and promised a thorough investigation into the claims, which were not specified, while Israel has […]
Read MoreSEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea and China agreed to strengthen tactical cooperation and defend common interests, the North’s official KCNA news agency said on Saturday, reporting on Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui’s meeting with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong. On Friday, China said the two countries pledged to strengthen strategic communications “at all levels” and […]
Read MoreTAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense tracked 33 Chinese military aircraft and six naval vessels between 6 a.m. Friday (Jan. 26) and Saturday at the same time. The defense ministry said that 13 of China’s aircraft entered the southwestern and northern air defense identification zone (ADIZ). It did not provide details of […]
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