Marcos vows to defend Philippines' sovereignty amid China aggression
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has vowed to step up the country's defense of its maritime zones in the South China Sea after Filipino and Chinese vessels collided over the weekend in what Manila has labeled a "serious escalation....
2023-12-26 09:46:15
U.S.-Chinese military hotline not restored in a month Biden-Xi summit
Nearly a month after President Joe Biden announced that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to resume direct communications between U.S. and Chinese military commanders, U.S. defense officials have repeatedly tried to reach their...
2023-12-26 09:46:09
China vows to boost domestic demand in bid for 2024 recovery
China's leaders vowed to boost domestic demand, prioritize the development of strategic sectors and tackle the country's real estate crisis, following a key meeting that laid out economic priorities for the new year. Under a new slogan pled...
2023-12-26 09:46:03
Developing nations spent record high on debt in 2022: World Bank
Developing countries paid a record $443.5 billion in 2022 to service their public debt as global interest rates surged, according to the World Bank. This was a 5% increase over the previous year — and things could get worse for the world'...
2023-12-26 09:45:57
Smashed toys and candy store fire raises questions over Israeli military's conduc
As Israel faces over , videos have emerged that raise questions over the conduct of . One video, apparently taken by soldiers themselves over the past week, shows Israeli troops setting fire to items in what they say is a candy factory . Th...
2023-12-26 09:45:51
In Israel’s northern neighbor, worries grow that Netanyahu won’t stop with Gaza
BEIRUT — As Israeli forces expand their ground operations in , anxiety is running high internationally that 's proxies could try to broaden the war into a regionwide conflict. Yet, despite the belligerent rhetoric from all sides since and...
2023-12-26 09:45:45
China data: industrial output growth at 2-year high, retail sales disappoint
China reported Friday its industrial output expanded at the fastest pace since February 2022 in November, though retail sales growth missed expectations, pointing to a patchy recovery in the world's second-largest economy. Economists are ap...
2023-12-26 09:45:39
BOJ sticks to ultra-easy monetary policy amid high uncertainties; yen tumbles
Japan's central bank left its ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged at its final meeting this year, a move that unraveled the recent yen rally as the policymakers chose to wait for more concrete signs of meaningful wage growth. The BOJ deci...
2023-12-26 09:45:33
China revokes Taiwan tariff concessions ahead of elections
China suspended tax concessions on 12 chemical compound imports from Taiwan in retaliation for what Beijing deems to be a violation of a trade agreement, just weeks ahead of key elections in the democratically-run island. "Taiwan has unilat...
2023-12-26 09:45:25
Toyota shares slide 4% after vehicle recall, Daihatsu safety issues
Japanese automaker led losses on the Japan's benchmark index Thursday, closing lower by 4%. The sharp fall came after Toyota of about a million vehicles on Thursday. The safety recall involved certain 2020-2022 Toyota and Lexus models ...
2023-12-26 09:45:19
Asia’s year in review: Who had it good — and who had it bad — in 2023
As with India's landmark Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) — the nation's first interplanetary mission to planet Mars in 2013, which made ISRO the fourth space agency to successfully send a spacecraft to Mars orbit the relatively low-cost $74.6...
2023-12-26 09:45:12
Top China, U.S. military leaders hold first meeting in more than a year
The chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Brown, spoke virtually with his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Liu Zhenli, Thursday in the first direct high-level engagement between the two militaries in more than a year. This meeting...
2023-12-26 09:45:05
Russia and the United States: Putin hinted that frozen fronts and Ukraine ceasefire
(Moscow) reported that the New York Times reported that although Russian President Putin was bluntly in public, he was actually implying that the Ukrainian ceasefire agreement was interested in consulting the Ukrainian ceasefire agreement -...
2023-12-24 22:36:41
Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act to improve military expenses to en
(Washington Composite Electric) US President Biden signed a 2024 National Defense Policy Act of US $ 886 billion (about S $ 1.17 trillion), which promoted a number of plans, including against China's military expansion in the Indo -Pacific...
2023-12-24 07:57:27
Analyst: Japanese export ＂Patriot＂ is wrong to the United States
(Washington Composite Electric) Japan decided to export the US -Patriot missile defense system to help supplement the US missile inventory, which surprised the analysts of the Indo -Pacific Affairs, saying that Japan "made fundamental mista...
2023-12-24 07:57:24