North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected photos taken by the country’s new spy satellite of “major target regions”, including the South Korean capital of Seoul and cities that host US military bases, state media said on Saturday. Nuclear-armed North Korea launched the satellite on Tuesday, but South Korean defence officials and analysts said its […]
Read MoreX, the social network formerly known as Twitter, typically earns the most money in the last months of the year, as brands ramp up their advertising campaigns for the holiday shopping season. According to The New York Times, though, the company’s earnings report for this quarter might look different than usual. Based on internal documents […]
Read MoreChina’s military will begin “combat training activities” from Saturday on its side of the border with Myanmar, it said on social media, a day after a convoy of trucks carrying goods into the neighbouring Southeast Asian nation went up in flames. The incident, which Myanmar state media called an insurgent attack, came amid insecurity concerns […]
Read MoreChinese health authorities have not detected any unusual or novel pathogens and provided the requested data on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The WHO had asked China for more information on Wednesday after groups including the Program for Monitoring Emerging […]
Read MoreBY BETTY HOU AND JENNIFER CREERY BLOOMBERG Taiwan’s main opposition parties launched rival bids for the presidency after the dramatic implosion of a potential alliance that aimed to unseat the ruling party and install a China-friendly government. The Kuomintang’s Hou Yu-ih named TV presenter Jaw Shaw-kong as his vice presidential running mate Friday morning, and […]
Read MoreTAIPEI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s opposition parties, which seek closer China ties, registered separate presidential candidates on Friday after a dramatic split, potentially easing the way for the ruling party, which has defied Beijing’s pressure, to stay in power. The Jan. 13 election is taking place as China, which views Taiwan as its own […]
Read MoreThe North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, has celebrated a “new era of a space power” with his family including daughter Ju Ae and the scientists who put the North’s first spy satellite into orbit. Pyongyang’s launch of the Malligyong-1 on Tuesday was its third attempt after failures in May and August. Images released by Pyongyang […]
Read MoreTHE historic warming of ties between South Korea and Japan took a new turn when the leaders of the two countries stood together and told a US audience they were looking at ways to strengthen their economic bonds. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told a group of entrepreneurs at […]
Read MoreNorth Korea marked its newly established Missile Industry Day on Saturday with silence in state-run media, as leader Kim Jong Un has remained out of the public spotlight for nearly a month. The new holiday to commemorate the Nov. 18 launch last year of its massive Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile was announced earlier this month […]
Read MoreChinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida committed to pursuing mutually-beneficial relations in their first face-to-face talks in a year, a sign that Asia’s two largest economies are looking to patch up strained ties. The two leaders also discussed China’s ban on Japanese seafood and the high-profile case of a Japanese businessman […]
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