Asia (except ME & Indian SC)

Jun 22, 2018

US has accused China for targeting its military pilots with lasers. According to US military sources, some 20 such attacks have been made on its aircrew operating in the East China Sea and Djibouti, since September last year, with the one being in the past fortnight.

Aviation Week has quoted a US Marine source as saying the attacks had come from “a range of different sources, both ashore and from fishing vessels”.

April 18, 2018

The Chinese military is scheduled to hold live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday — a clear warning to Taipei about seeking independence or closer ties with Washington.

Taiwan is a self-ruled island republic, but China sees it as a breakaway province that should be brought back into the fold and has not ruled out reunification by force.

Source: Xinhua| 2018-06-16 03:07:52|Editor: Mu Xuequan

BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) - China has unveiled a list of products from the United States that will be subject to additional tariffs in response to U.S. announcement to impose additional duties on Chinese imports.

Approved by the State Council, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has decided to impose additional duties of 25 percent on 659 items of U.S. products worth about 50 billion U.S. dollars.

Singapore; June 12, 2018

Finally, Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump met at the Capella Hotel in Singapore's resort island of Sentosa.

Kim and Trump started their first summit with a historic handshake that lasted for several seconds.

After shaking hands again with Kim in front of the cameras, Trump gave a thumbs-up before starting the first meeting between an incumbent U.S. president and a DPRK leader.

AFP; Manila, Jun 3 : President Rodrigo Duterte has told a United Nations rights expert to "go to hell" over criticism of the Philippine leader for threatening the country's top judge.

Duterte's latest profanity-laced diatribe came after Diego Garcia-Sayan, the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said the president's statements against former chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno were a "vicious attack" on the judiciary.