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China holds military drills around Taiwan after US arms deal
Published on 29/12/2025
» China kicked off military manoeuvres around Taiwan that it said included live-fire drills, in a dramatic show of force after the US announced one of its biggest arms packages ever for the self-run democracy.
China begins war games around Taiwan, island vows to defend democracy
Reuters, Published on 29/12/2025
» BEIJING/TAIPEI - China's military moved army, naval, air force and artillery units around Taiwan on Monday for its "Justice Mission 2025" drills, as the island vowed to defend democracy and mobilised troops to rehearse repelling a potential Chinese attack.
Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war
AFP, Published on 28/12/2025
» YANGON (MYANMAR) - A trickle of voters made their way to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war.
Russia pummels Kyiv ahead of Zelensky’s US visit
AFP, Published on 27/12/2025
» KYIV - Russia pummelled Ukraine’s capital with drones and missiles on Saturday, killing a woman and cutting power to hundreds of thousands, ahead of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s latest talks with US leader Donald Trump.
Vietnam bus crash kills nine
Published on 27/12/2025
» HANOI - Nine people were killed and another nine injured when a bus overturned and crashed in northern Vietnam on Saturday, state media reported.
China urges travel agencies to reduce Japan-bound visitors by 40%
Kyodo News, Published on 25/12/2025
» KYODO — China has urged domestic travel agencies to reduce the number of Japan-bound tourists by 40%, industry sources said Thursday, amid a Beijing-Tokyo row over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on a Taiwan contingency.
Former Chinese ‘population tsar’ dies at 95
Published on 25/12/2025
» BEIJING - The death of a former top overseer of China’s one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week.
Kosovo, Serbia ‘need to normalise’ relations, says Kosovo PM
AFP, Published on 24/12/2025
» PRISTINA - Kosovo and Serbia need to “normalise” their relations, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti told AFP Wednesday, several days before legislative elections where he is seeking to extend his term with more solid backing.
Lid lifted on Hong Kong bid-rigging rackets
Published on 24/12/2025
» Raphael Chan entered Hong Kong’s construction industry in the mid-1990s convinced that quality building work could improve people’s lives. But he quit more than two decades later, disillusioned by what he called rampant corruption in the industry.
Trump officials sue to loosen DC’s gun laws
New York Times, Published on 23/12/2025
» WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump administration sued Washington, DC, on Monday in an effort to loosen the city’s strict gun laws, the latest move in its effort to reimagine public safety in the nation’s capital, where it has deployed thousands of National Guard and other federal forces.