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Kyodo News, Published on 26/05/2019
» HONG KONG: Over 2,000 people in Hong Kong on Sunday took part in a rally to mark the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Published on 26/04/2019
» HONG KONG: A museum documenting the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre reopened in Hong Kong on Friday after a three-year hiatus, marking the 30th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on a pro-democracy protest.
AFP, Published on 02/03/2019
» OTTAWA - Canada on Friday launched the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to the United States -- the latest move in a case that has roiled relations between the North American neighbors and China.
Kyodo News, Published on 20/12/2018
» TOKYO: Japan has decided to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission in a bid to resume commercial whaling for the first time in about 30 years, government sources said Thursday.
Published on 12/12/2018
» TOKYO: A Chinese man from Hong Kong set on fire a makeshift memorial tablet in an act of protest on Wednesday morning at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and was arrested by police for trespassing, according to police and an activist group.
AFP, Published on 09/12/2018
» BEIJING - China summoned the US ambassador on Sunday to protest the "extremely bad" arrest of telecom giant Huawei's chief financial officer in Canada and demand that the United States drop its extradition request.
AFP, Published on 09/12/2018
» BEIJING - China on Saturday summoned the Canadian ambassador over the "unconscionable and vile" detention of telecom giant Huawei's chief financial officer in Vancouver, state media reported, in Beijing's latest angry response to the hot-button case.
Kyodo News, Published on 27/02/2018
» PHNOM PENH: The Cambodian government condemned on Tuesday the burning of Prime Minister Hun Sen's effigy in Australia, after he warned that he would beat up any protestors in Australia who dare to burn his photos during his upcoming visit.
Reuters, Published on 21/01/2018
» MANDALAY: Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organised by the scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple whose abbot is wanted for questioning on money-laundering allegations.
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/01/2018
» The general prime minister, aka the politician who used to be a soldier, is strolling into a battleground and exhibits no sign he is aware of it.