Taiwan’s navy says it is on course to launch its first domestically built submarine by May 2024, amid skepticism about the effectiveness of Taipei’s indigenous submarine program. Navy Chief of Staff, Vice…
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Around 20 Rohingya missing after their boat sank in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region
A boat carrying at least 80 Rohingya sank when it ran aground near Pyapon township in Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady region. Around 20 are still missing and feared dead after Monday’s accident, local…
Solomon Islands province rejects Chinese mobile towers
China’s Huawei is building dozens of communications towers across the Solomon Islands, boosting mobile internet access ahead of next year’s Pacific Games, but the country’s most populous province continues to reject the…
United States likely to base long-range bombers in northern Australia
Plans to station nuclear capable B-52 bombers in the far north of Australia show that the U.S. military is seeking more deterrence options against China as its military strength increases, defense experts…
Overseas Chinese hold small anti-Xi Halloween march in New York City
Around 30 protesters, many dressed as the white-clad, sometimes violent enforcers of China’s zero-COVID policy, took to New York’s streets on Monday for a Halloween march with a political message: opposing the…
Specter of invasion of Taiwan looms over future of US-China ties: analysts
While ties between Beijing and Washington appear to be on a more even keel following a ministerial-level phone call, the threat of a possible invasion of democratic Taiwan under the expansionist rhetoric…
No kimchi? Poor harvests, lower incomes mean North Koreans may go without staple dish
It’s a traditional, often communal event that happens every autumn when the weather grows colder, and it is central to Korean culture and cuisine: kimjang, the process of making kimchi, which is…
New photos show China’s artificial islands are highly developed military bases
New images have emerged showing airfields and other structures on some of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea that the U.S. said had been “fully militarized.” Getty Image’s photographer Ezra…
50 nations at UN denounce Chinese human rights violations of Uyghurs
Fifty nations at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday denounced China for its treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region and called on Beijing to end…
Myanmar’s junta arrests 10 alleged members of an anti-regime group in Yangon
Myanmar’s junta says it has arrested seven men and three women for carrying out a series of killings in Yangon. A statement released on Sunday said the 10 were members of the…