A British lawmaker’s mention of Wang Yaohui as a part-owner of Birmingham City Football Club during a recent parliamentary debate may increase scrutiny on the Cambodian diplomat, but a cousin said Wang’s…
Month: May 2023
North Korean long-range missile lands off Japan during APEC summit
UPDATED AT 03:46 A.M. ET ON 11-18-2022 South Korea, Japan and the United States held emergency talks Friday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit after North Korea fired an…
Foreign detainees arrive home after Myanmar prisoner amnesty
Australian economist Sean Turnell and Japanese journalist Toru Kubota arrived home Friday after an amnesty by the Myanmar junta for thousands of prisoners including four foreign nationals arrested since a military coup…
China sentences mother of Uyghur Dutch airman to 15 years for visiting him abroad
Chinese authorities have sentenced the mother and sister-in-law of an ethnic Uyghur member of the Dutch air force to 15 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism and revealing state secrets,…
North Korean censors destroy more than half of soldiers’ Mother’s Day letters
North Korea’s military ordered soldiers to write letters to their mothers ahead of the country’s Mother’s Day, which was on Wednesday, but military censors destroyed more than half of them for ideological…
China clamps down on social media comments under news stories
China is clamping down on social media comments, ordering all websites, apps and other platforms to seek political approval for public comments – including emoticons – under news stories before they’re published…
Police arrest Thai man caught smuggling four tiger cubs from Laos
Thai police said they arrested a Thai man on Tuesday caught smuggling four 2-month-old tiger cubs and attempting to sell them for U.S.$42,000. Thanad Wongsarm, 63, will be charged with trafficking endangered…
U.S. charges Cambodian officials in monkey smuggling ring
Kry Masphal, the deputy director of the Cambodian agency responsible for protecting wildlife, was arrested on Wednesday in New York for his alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar smuggling ring to export a…
Chinese spy gets 20 years in US prison
A Chinese intelligence official found guilty of corporate espionage for theft of trade secrets in the aviation industry was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison by a court in Ohio on…
Top US general: China likely won’t invade Taiwan soon
China’s military is not yet capable of invading Taiwan, and any attempts to do so in the near future would be an error on par with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the top…