Stock markets in the Asia-Pacific traded mostly with gains on Tuesday following economic data from Japan and China. Japanese retail sales fell more than projected in March, while industrial production
China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) marks a new phase in Beijing’s ongoing push to change the international security order. Through the GSI, China seeks to establish itself as a counterbalance to U.S. influence and to reshape security management in a number of strategically important regions. The GSI is still in the early stages of implementation, but it has already demonstrated the potential to disrupt the existing security framework in Southeast Asia. This may lead to increased...
Surrey closed the gap to leading Division One side Essex yesterday with an innings victory over Kent in Canterbury. Dan Worrall took 4-31 while Cameron Steel took 3-38 as the reigning champions bowled out the hosts for just 262. With Dom Sibley and Dan Lawrence knocking 150 and 112 in Surrey’s only innings, the favourites []
North Korea slammed on Friday United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield's tour across South Korea and Japan, as per KCNA.Kim Son-gyong, North Korea's vice foreign minister
China says it firmly opposes foreign military alliances targeting it and stoking bloc confrontation.
Bayer Leverkusen's Josip Stanisic scored a 97th-minute goal for the German
More than a dozen times, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida uses the word "peace" as he discusses his country's momentous decision to undertake its largest buildup of military capabilities since World War II."Since I became prime minister, we have substantially revised Japan's National Security Strategy," Kishida told Newsweek during an interview at his office in Tokyo on the heels of his first visit to Washington, D.C., as Japan's leader for talks with President Joe Biden. "Now, in that...
One-sided matches are common at the World Junior Championship. When powerhouses like Canada, the USA or Sweden take on the likes of Germany or Kazakhstan, we’re treated to 10-0 games. But games with a 15-goal deficit are quite rare. In Asia, however, the opposite is true. On the very first day of the IIHF U18
Observers have learned it’s going to take more than a few months of robust numbers to prove a rebound is truly under way.
South Korean police said Friday they searched the office of the hard-line incoming leader of an association of doctors and confiscated his mobile phone as he faces accusations that he incited the protracted walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents.
China produces about half of the world’s steel and sells it for less than half what U.S.-produced steel costs, administration officials said.
The US talks of Aukus as ‘binding’ the allies for decades to come, but Richard Marles says Australia must become more ‘self-reliant’Australia’s defence overhaul has accelerated some projects and cut others and has already prompted a plea from China to abandon a “cold war mentality”.But as the dust settles on a plan to increase overall military spending, the Albanese government has also sent some significant signals on how it sees the future of the Indo-Pacific region – and these aren’t exactly...