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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will visit India next week to participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-India Commemorative Summit (AICS) and attend activities commemorating India’s Republic Day. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Assistant Secretary Hellen De La Vega said in a press briefing on Friday, January 19, that President Duterte is expected to arrive in New Delhi on January 24. The ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit will take place the next day. […]
by Jung Ha-Won Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North and South Korea began talks Monday on appearances by performers from Pyongyang’s state-run artistic troupes at next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, after the North agreed to attend the Games. Pyongyang agreed last week to send athletes, high-level officials, and others to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, easing months of high tensions over its weapons programmes. The two sides agreed an art troupe […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed an unprecedented army admission that security forces carried out extra-judicial killings of Rohingya Muslims as a “positive step”, state-backed media reported Saturday. After months of staunch denials of abuse, the army on Wednesday said a probe found four members of the security forces helped kill 10 Rohingya militant suspects at Inn Din village on September 2, leaving their bodies in a hastily […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit a remote region of central Myanmar early Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The shallow quake struck some 40 kilometers (24 miles) west of the town of Pyu, the USGS said. It was followed by three weaker tremors in the region, all of magnitudes 5.3, the survey reported. “There is a low likelihood of casualties and damage,” USGS said, but noted that residential structures in the […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A retired Japanese crime boss has been arrested in Thailand ending more than 14 years on the run after photos of his ‘Yakuza’ tattoos and a missing little finger went viral. The fugitive, Shigeharu Shirai, 72, was arrested by a SWAT team on Wednesday in the sleepy central Thai market town of Lopburi while he was out shopping. Japanese authorities have called for his arrest over an alleged role in the […]
(Eagle News) — Indonesian president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will once again visit India this year. The Indonesian leader’s visit is slated before the end of January, in time for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-India Commemorative Summit on the 25th of this month, and India’s Republic Day Parade the following day. The visit aims to strengthen the two countries’ strategic partnership. Once in New Delhi, President Widodo is expected to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines will intensify coordination with its Indonesian counterparts to ensure security and prevent the utilization of territorial waters as an “avenue for the proliferation of terrorism and other transnational crimes,” among others. The border committees of both countries said in a statement that they were considering adding more border crossing stations to “closely monitor the entry and exit” of their nationals. In the statement issued days after President Rodrigo Duterte met with […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea will not seek to renegotiate a deal with Japan on wartime sex slavery, it said Tuesday, despite new President Moon Jae-In saying on the campaign trail he “could not accept” the agreement. The issue of women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II is a hugely emotional one that has long marred ties between the South and its former colonial ruler. Ousted president Park […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Fiery Cross, also known as Kagitingan Reef, is now a Chinese military base. Part of the disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea, China Central Television reported the base has a runway for warplanes able to accommodate strategic bombers. The base is also equipped with communication facilities. Also according to the report, more than 200 soldiers are also stationed on Fiery Cross.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs to beef up its disaster management efforts after the region was hammered by deadly storms that left a path of destruction in their wake, its new chief said Friday. Secretary-general Lim Jock Hoi, a veteran Bruneian diplomat, pointed to a tropical storm that battered the southern Philippines last month leaving at least 240 dead and tens of thousands displaced. Also in December, a […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia launched a new cyber security agency Wednesday as the world’s biggest Muslim majority country moves to tackle online religious extremism and a flood of fake news on social media. Millions of Indonesians are going online for the first time just as concern about Internet hoaxes reaches a fevered pitch. One of the most high-profile cases in recent times was a false claim circulating on social media in December that […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Four Singaporean men were Friday charged over a scandal involving contracts for the metro worth almost Sg$10 million ($7.4 million), the latest problem to hit the financial hub’s train network. The prosecution of the group, which included former and current employees of metro operator SMRT, came after a series of breakdowns on the train system and a collision that injured dozens. The accidents have caused anger in the city-state where public […]
