Defence ministers and officials from the United States, China, Russia and Southeast Asia gathered in Indonesia on Thursday for a meeting where they are expected to discuss geopolitical crises in and outside the region. Defence ministers in Southeast Asia’s regional bloc ASEAN called on Wednesday for a ceasefire in Gaza and a durable solution in […]
Read MoreU.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on Wednesday to open a presidential hotline, resume military-to-military communications and work to curb fentanyl production, showing tangible progress in their first face-to-face talks in a year. Biden and Xi met for about four hours on the outskirts of San Francisco to discuss issues that […]
Read MoreTaipei’s national security chief has said a Chinese tax probe into Taiwan tech giant Foxconn is “political” as its billionaire founder Terry Gou is running for president of the democratically ruled island. Gou, who gave up Foxconn’s management reins four years ago, launched his presidential bid in August as an independent candidate in Taiwan’s January […]
Read MoreULAN BATOR, Nov.14 (Xinhua) — Large parts of Mongolia are likely to experience the extreme wintry weather “dzud” this winter, local media reported Tuesday, citing the country’s National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring. A dzud is a brutal weather phenomenon in which a frigid winter kills vast numbers of livestock, either by starvation or […]
Read MoreThe Taliban’s acting commerce minister met Pakistan’s foreign minister in Islamabad this week, says an Afghan embassy statement, discussing trade and how the thousands of Afghan citizens Pakistan is expelling could take cash and other assets back to their homeland. The meeting between Haji Nooruddin Azizi and Pakistan’s Jalil Abbas Jilani took place days after […]
Read MoreKazakhstan puts forward a number of initiatives in the transport sector for the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization, Azernews reports, citing Kun.uz News Agency. The head of the Kazakh government voiced them during the ECO summit held the previous week in Tashkent. He emphasized the need to develop transportation and logistics in a region […]
Read MoreThe agreement on visa-free travel between Kazakhstan and China became officially effective on November 10. The agreement signed in May this year permits citizens of both countries to travel to each other’s territories for tourism, business or medical treatment purposes without being obliged to hold a visa at first, VisaGuide.World reports. It grants visa-free access […]
Read MoreMalaysia’s highest court reduced the sentences of seven death row inmates to life in prison on Tuesday, four months after the country abolished mandatory capital punishment. Under a new law, which took effect in July, judges have the option to impose lengthy prison sentences of up to 30 years. Previously, convictions for several offences, including […]
Read MoreIndonesia’s election commission (KPU) has announced the three candidates who will run to succeed President Joko Widodo as head of the world’s third-largest democracy in next year’s presidential election. “Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar, Ganjar Pranowo and Mahfud MD, Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka have been declared eligible as presidential and vice presidential candidate […]
Read MoreIf Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in a year later this week, he will likely raise the case of a detained company executive that has dealt an outsized blow to their close economic ties. The employee of drugmaker Astellas Pharma, as well as other Japanese imprisoned […]
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