In his latest riposte to international criticism of the rising death toll in his brutal crackdown on crime, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a profanity-filled tirade against the European Union. Duterte punctuated his insults with a rude sign — raising his middle finger — after the European Parliament condemned ...
With a tightly controlled state media, little access to outside information and a deeply instilled belief that whoever runs the ...
From kicking out North Korean workers and ending visa-free travel for its citizens, to stripping flags of convenience from its ...
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang met with Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday during a two-day trip to Havana, and the two leaders oversaw the signing of around 30 agreements on economic cooperation in various sectors, Cuban state media reported. Li is the first ...
Former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi made her first speech Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly since forming a democratically elected government and called for international understanding as Myanmar grapples with sectarian tensions. Suu Kyi’s appearance at the annual gathering of world leaders ...
China and the United States will keep developing positive relations no matter who wins November’s U.S. presidential election, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told an economic forum in New York on Tuesday. Li declined to comment on which candidate he favors. Republican Donald Trump has ...
A Philippine senator who led an investigation into the president’s bloody anti-drug campaign was ousted Monday from the justice committee in a vote that human rights advocates said could derail accountability in the crackdown. President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies led the vote that removed Sen. ...
Opposition to Chinese-invested hydropower programs in Myanmar is being orchestrated by “extreme” groups in the country and has heavily damaged joint investment projects, an influential Chinese newspaper wrote on Monday. The suspension in 2011 of the $3.6-billion Myitsone megadam project by former president Thein ...
A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country’s Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead. ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to travel to Cuba to shore up relations with one of the world’s few other remaining Communist states, officials said Wednesday, months after U.S. President Barack Obama visited the Caribbean island. Li will visit Cuba to discuss “how to ...
China has appointed former Communist Party secretary of Hubei province Li Hongzhong as the new party chief for the strategic port city of Tianjin, days after announcing a corruption investigation into the northeastern city’s former mayor. Dozens of senior officials have been investigated or ...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday he told President Barack Obama during their encounter in Laos that he never cursed him. On a visit to Indonesia, Duterte told the Filipino community there that he told Obama: “President Obama, I’m President Duterte. I never made ...
The democratically elected mayor of a fishing village in southern China — which became the center of international attention five years ago for protests against land seizures — has been given three years in prison on bribery charges. State media reported that Lin Zuluan ...
A summit of Southeast Asian countries and world powers is expected to let China off with a muted reprimand over its expansionist activities in the disputed South China Sea, according to a draft of their joint statement to be released Thursday. The mild language ...
The death of communist China’s founding father, Mao Zedong, 40 years ago on Friday was akin to the demise of an emperor and helped pave the way for the modern nation, says one of the few Westerners in Beijing at the time. Ragnar Baldursson, ...
