BEIJING, Aug.13 (APP): The purpose of the terrorist attack in Gwadar is no different from the previous terror attacks against Chinese personnel, mainly because it wants to impact China-Pakistan cooperation, especially the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Qian Feng, Director of the Research department at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University said on Sunday.
BEIJING/TAIPEI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - China on Sunday condemned a brief U.S. visit by Taiwan Vice President William Lai, saying he was a separatist and "troublemaker through and through," and Beijing would take strong steps to protect its sovereignty, drawing a rebuke from Taipei.
Lai, front-runner to be Taiwan's next president at elections in January, arrived in New York late on Saturday for what was officially billed as a transit stopover on his way to Paraguay for the inauguration of its president.
TOKYO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Japan and the U.S. will agree this week to jointly develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic warheads being developed by China, Russia and North Korea, Japan's Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.
The agreement on interceptors to target weapons designed to evade existing ballistic missile defences is expected when President Joe Biden meets Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the U.S. on Friday, the report said, without giving any source for the information.
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a mudslide triggered by heavy rain on the outskirts of the western Chinese city of Xi’an rose to 21 on Sunday and rescuers were still looking for six missing people, the government said.
The mudslide and a flash flood Friday evening also damaged a highway and knocked out power to 900 households, the Xi’an Emergency Management Bureau said on its social media account. It said rescue teams totaling 980 people with dogs were looking for the remaining missing people.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — China’s foreign minister visited Cambodia over the weekend to reaffirm his country’s commitment to the southeast Asian country after its incumbent prime minister handed off the job to his son following a one-sided election last month, officials said.
Wang Yi is the first foreign leader to visit Cambodia, days after Hun Sen’s announcement that his 45-year-old son and the country’s army chief, Hun Manet, is replacing him.
A video of the meeting was posted on Hun Sen’s Telegram channel on Sunday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — After a checkered victory in Saturday’s state elections that saw strong gains by the Malay-Islamist opposition, analysts say Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim faces a daunting task in uniting an increasingly polarized nation and strengthening his nascent unity government.
BEIJING, August 11. /TASS/: The US’ actions against China demonstrate that this country is the largest source of instability in the world, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
YANGON, Aug 11 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar authorities seized over 61.34 tonnes of illegal timber across the country in a week, according to the state media today.
From Jul 31 to Aug 6, the authorities confiscated over 30.46 tonnes of teak, over 4.41 tonnes of hardwood and over 26.45 tonnes of other types of timber, in the country’s regions, states and Naypyidaw Union Territory, state media reported.
During the seven days, 14 offenders were charged in connection with the cases, along with the seizure of six vehicles and machines.
BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China's coast guard held joint drills with its counterparts from Russia and South Korea from Aug. 7 to 10, according to an official statement from the China side.
Maritime law enforcement from countries including Russia and South Korea took part in the annual North Pacific coast guard drills in eastern Chinese city Ningbo, the Chinese coast guard said in the statement on Friday. The drills targeted drug trafficking at sea.
TOKYO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has found leaks in a hose used to transfer nuclear-contaminated wastewater, local media reported on Friday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) conducted a probe after higher-than-usual levels of radioactive material were detected in rainwater in the dike around a storage tank, public broadcaster NHK reported.
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