Tag: world briefs
-
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES A grenade was thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines where Muslim teachers were sleeping early yesterday morning, killing two of them and injuring four, ... -
World Briefs
CHINA-JAPAN Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged he will further expand his country’s already improving ties with China but said Japan still needs to bolster its ... -
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES Muslims in the southern Philippines overwhelmingly approved in a referendum the creation of a new autonomous region in hopes of ending nearly half a century of ... -
World Briefs
MALAYSIA Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah of central Pahang state was named Malaysia’s new king yesterday, replacing Sultan Muhammad V who abdicated unexpectedly after just two ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA Torrential rains overwhelmed a dam and caused landslides that killed at least eight people and displaced more than 2,000 in central Indonesia, officials said yesterday. MALAYSIA ... -
World Briefs
JAPAN-RUSSIA Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sat down for talks yesterday with Russian President Vladimir Putin focusing on a decades-long territorial dispute between the two nations. VIETNAM ... -
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES Muslims in the southern Philippines voted yesterday in a referendum on a new autonomous region that seeks to end nearly half a century of unrest, ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA An Islamic cleric who was the ideological leader of the Bali bombers and other Indonesian militants is being released early from a 15-year prison sentence ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA Echoing the campaign tactics of Donald Trump, former Indonesian Gen. Prabowo Subianto says his country, the world’s third-largest democracy, is in dire shape and he ... -
World Briefs
KOREA North Korea is no longer South Korea’s “enemy,” though Pyongyang’s nuclear program still poses a security threat, according to Seoul’s biennial defense document published this week. ... -
World briefs
HONG KONG’s former top leader Donald Tsang was released yesterday after serving time in prison for failing to disclose plans to rent a luxury apartment from ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA Navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, Indonesian officials said yesterday, in ... -
World Briefs
HONG KONG’s exports contracted unexpectedly in November, highlighting the risks for the trade-dependent city whose top two partners are embroiled in a trade war. Exports fell ... -
World Briefs
CHINA State media say eight people were killed after a hijacker with a knife drove a bus into pedestrians in Longyan in Fujian province. THAILAND The ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA’s government has rejected a demand by rebels in the country’s restive Papua province to hold negotiations on the territory’s self-determination, following a Dec. 2 attack ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA Rebels in Indonesia’s Papua province demanded that the government hold negotiations on their territory’s self-determination and warned of more attacks following a raid on a construction ... -
World Briefs
CHINA’s export growth sank in November as global demand weakened, adding to pressure on Beijing ahead of trade talks with Washington. Exports rose 5.4 percent ... -
World Briefs
SOUTH KOREA A beleaguered South Korean curling official says he and his family will leave the sport for good as the government investigates their alleged abusive treatment ... -
World Briefs
VIETNAM A court in northern Vietnam has jailed two former police generals for protecting a multimillion-dollar online gambling ring as the Communist government steps up its crackdown ... -
World Briefs
CHINA said yesterday that it had expressed concerns to the U.S. over the passage of a pair of Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait, days ahead ... -
World Briefs
CHINA Jack Ma, co-founder of China’s most valuable company, was officially confirmed as a member of the Communist Party in a state-backed newspaper recognizing business leaders for ... -
World Briefs
THAILAND Police have arrested two brothers from Britain wanted on drug trafficking charges in their homeland. INDIA Tens of thousands of Hindus gathered in northern India yesterday ... -
World Briefs
CHINA Five were killed and 18 injured when a car rammed into a group of children crossing a road after leaving their school in northeast China’s ... -
World Briefs
KOREA U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that his country has “made clear” to South Korea that progress on disarming North Korea should not lag behind ... -
World Briefs
HONG KONG China is allowing a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and its battle group to make a port call in Hong Kong after it earlier turned down ... -
World Briefs
VIETNAM-RUSSIA The prime ministers of Vietnam and Russia agreed yesterday to nearly triple their countries’ two-way trade to USD10 billion by 2020 from $3.55 billion last year. ... -
World Briefs
CAMBODIA The U.N.-backed tribunal judging the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians will issue verdicts today ... -
World Briefs
ASEAN Leaders of Southeast Asian nations have again pushed back an agreement on a pan-Asian free trade deal amid a whirlwind of diplomacy yesterday at their annual ... -
World Briefs
CHINA’s premier sought yesterday to reassure its neighbors that Beijing will push ahead with reforms needed to support growth across the region and also keep the ... -
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES Prosecutors said they will file charges of tax evasion against a news website that has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte. VIETNAM’s National Assembly yesterday ... -
World Briefs
SOUTH CHINA SEA China bluntly told the United States to stop sending ships and military aircraft close to islands claimed by Beijing in the South China ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA Relatives of Lion Air crash victims prayed and threw flowers into the Java Sea where the jet plunged into the water more than a week ago, ... -
World Briefs
AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA Indonesian and Australian ministers signed an agreement to strengthen government economic exchanges yesterday as the neighboring countries work toward forging a bilateral free trade deal. ... -
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES An Australian nun who angered the Philippine president by joining anti-government protests used her final hours in the country to call on Filipinos to unite ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA Divers in Indonesia recovered one of the crashed Lion Air jet’s flight recorders from the seafloor yesterday, a crucial development in the investigation into what ...
